a first nations not-for-profit has released free resources on australia’s history
The organisation has recommended five ways Australians can learn about First Nations history on January 26th.
First Nations organisation SharingStories Foundation is encouraging Australians to learn about and reflect on Australia’s shared history this January 26th. Because – let’s be frank – much of the education we received as kids glossed over the traumatising and ongoing impacts of colonisation on Australia’s First Nations peoples.
As part of its Moment of Truth campaign, SharingStories Foundation has teamed up with Jaara Elder Uncle Rick Nelson, Bangerang Custodian Roland Atkinson and other First Nations educators to create Jajoo Warrngara: The Culture Classroom – a free online portal that’s packed with educational resources.
The resources highlight five aspects of Australian history that are not often acknowledged:
1. There was active and coordinated resistance to the British invasion, and this resulted in brutal conflicts known as the Frontier Wars.
2. There was no singular frontier, but many frontiers as the British fanned out to establish other colonies and settlements across the vast Australian land mass.
3. January 26th marks the day Captain Arthur Phillip, the Commander of the First Fleet, raised a British flag at Sydney Cove (Warrane) and established a convict settlement.
4. January 26th only became the official, nation-wide public holiday known as Australia Day in 1994.
5. There were more than 270 massacres across Australia over a 140-year period.
SharingStories Foundation has recommended five ways that Australians can learn more about Australian history from First Nations voices:
1. Learn and teach others by accessing Jajoo Warrngara and completing a learning module,
2. Watch film and TV shows like The Australian Wars and High Ground,
3. Read publications like A Short History of the Australian Indigenous Resistance, Day Break, and Blood on the Wattle,
4. Listen to podcasts like Mapping the traumascape, Frontier War Stories, One discordant note: the 1938 Day of Mourning, AWAYE!, and Speaking Out,
5. Share your #MomentOfTruth on social media and repost First Nations peoples’ perspectives to amplify First Nations voices.
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