Friday, 2 July 2021

Indigenous design | agencies | processes

 IDIA
Indigenous Design & Innovation Aotearoa

Local Contexts Frameworks for culturally appropriate engagement with cultural heritage held in museums galleries;  data governance

to enhance and legitimize locally based decision-making and Indigenous governance frameworks for determining ownership, access, and culturally appropriate conditions for sharing historical, contemporary and future collections of cultural heritage and Indigenous data


Monday, 7 June 2021

Promoting polyphony in museums and collections

 From  CAUMAC Council of Australian University Museums and Collections
webinar on 7 June 2021 



 Grounding Indigenous Rights_ labelling by community
TK Traditional Knowledge Labels
BC Biocultural Labels

Return  Reconcile Renew

 

How can individual communities be supported to drive their own repatriation efforts, rather than relying on uncoordinated central agencies?

 

Bakhtin theory polyphony

Wednesday, 2 June 2021

What was always known

 What was always known, children taken from families by Canadian government to residential schools never to return.

Kamloops: remains of 215 children found( Guardian 28 May 2021)

'The Kamloops Indian residential school was established in 1890 under the leadership of the Roman Catholic church, and closed in 1978.

It was part of a cross-Canada network of residential schools created to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children by removing them from their homes and communities, and forbidding them from speaking their native languages or performing cultural practices. Physical, emotional and sexual abuse were rampant within these institutions, as was forced labour.

At least 150,000 children attended such schools in what a historic 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission described as a “cultural genocide” targeting Canada’s Indigenous people.'

2015: Seven hearings at Truth and Reconciliation Commission

'More than 3,000 children died and were often buried in unmarked graves without any identification or notice to their parents. Death rates among indigenous children at residential schools were higher than among Canadian soldiers in the second world war, the report found. These were schools that often had no playgrounds but always had graveyards, according to commissioner Marie Wilson.'

 

Monday, 24 May 2021

Friday, 29 May 2020

week ending 29 May 2020

 Rio Tinto blow up  Puutu Kunti Kurruma country with 46,00 year old Pilbara sacred sites
 ...

Yindjibarndi win High Court appeal and now their exclusive native title rights are affirmed 2020
FMG first appealed in 2018
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George Floyd killed by police officer Dan Chauvin in Minneapolis

Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Africans: First Fleeters

African Americans in First Fleet and afterwards
Cassandra Pybus Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers
'Did you know there were 12 Africans aboard the First Fleet?'

John Randall
Martin
'Black Caesar' - first bushranger
Billy Blue - ferryman, Blues Point
John Williams aka Black Jack - Kangaroo Island
William Blue ( Billy Blue): New South Wales State Library

Monday, 4 May 2020

What it is to be here: colonisation and resistance

In response to the anniversary of Cook making landfall in Kamay/ Botany Bay I have made an exhibition to display at The Portico Library, Manchester
Due to Covid19 close-down, it is now online until the Library opens:
What it is to be here: colonisation and resistance

Indigenous design | agencies | processes

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