Handbook

This course explores Indigenous histories in Australia and their contemporary resonance. It offers students an overview of relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers, centring Indigenous experiences and tracing some of the ways Indigenous people have enacted self-determination and made their own histories in varied contexts of settler colonialism. The course covers nineteenth century Indigenous travellers and entrepreneurs, examines violence and friendship, studies reserves and resistance, and historicises displacement and the many novel articulations of land rights. Students will also engage with debates about the representation of Indigenous pasts in the present, as well as completing in-depth and independent historical research.