Latin and South American History

Tobin, Kathleen A.

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“…However, change in perspectives can be seen through those tracking the historical records and accounts (Brook and Kohen 1991;Brook 1999;Djoric 2011;Docker 2015;Karskens 2010Karskens , 2020Reynolds 1987;Tobin 1999), the geographic knowledges (ACF 2020;Ashton 2000;Currie and Willoughby City Council 2008), core Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing (Moreton-Robinson 2015; Watson et al 2014;Watson 2015), and many other sources. This tracking shows a continuing thread that entwines the Presences (as more-than-humans) across times, the places across geographies, and the people across events.…”

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“Who’d Have Thought?”: Unravelling Ancestors’ Hidden Histories and Their Impact on Dharug Ngurra Presences, Places and People

Rey

2023

Genealogy

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As a means of opening the lid on transgenerational silencing—which was a survival strategy for thousands of Indigenous families against intended cultural genocide—while balancing the place of auto/biography in that journey, this paper focuses on the impact of Ancestors’ hidden histories and how the discovery of those histories drives complex identifications when woven with Presences, places, and people on Dharug Ngurra/Country. Using my own family’s recently uncovered early colonial Ancestral storying, histories that involve Dharug traditional custodian, African slave, and Anglo characters, some as First Fleet arrivals, the paper considers the place of auto/biography as a form of agency that brings past into presence, and which, in turn, opens opportunities to heal, decolonise, and transform Dharug and, more broadly, Indigenous communities, their knowledges, practices, and ontologies. When this activation involves most of the metropolis known as Sydney, Australia, we recognise its transformative potential to change non-Indigenous people’s perspectives. When we recognise auto/biography as a form of ‘truth-telling’, it allows a space to re-story relationality, both human and other-than-human, and restores Indigenous presence into Ngurra for biodiverse justice in a climate-changing world. Addressing these matters through poetic multimedia allows a place of safety between the pain and the healing.

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“Who’d Have Thought?”: Unravelling Ancestors’ Hidden Histories and Their Impact on Dharug Ngurra Presences, Places and People

Rey

2023

Genealogy

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Latin and South American History

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“Who’d Have Thought?”: Unravelling Ancestors’ Hidden Histories and Their Impact on Dharug Ngurra Presences, Places and People

“Who’d Have Thought?”: Unravelling Ancestors’ Hidden Histories and Their Impact on Dharug Ngurra Presences, Places and People

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