indigenous history

Monday, October 26

Film review: Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky

Part comedy, part tale of survival and resistance, part poetry and dance, new film Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky canvasses Indigenous Australian accounts of, and responses to, Captain Cook’s arrival.

Colonial gallery to be revamped with First Nations input

Adelaide’s Migration Museum is preparing to redevelop its 19^th-century gallery in 2020 to tell the story of settlement through multiple perspectives and give greater voice to Indigenous Australians.

Muityu – fruit of the Karrkala plant. Photo: James Tylor

The South Australian menu has always been seasonal

Artist James Tylor gives context to SA Food Month in light of the state’s first food culture with a short encyclopedia of indigenous edible foods and agriculture in the Tarntanya Adelaide region.

Australia's forgotten heroes: 'They were fighting two wars'

Stories of heroism, mateship, discrimination and heartbreak are shared in an exhibition that uses family histories, photos, objects and art to highlight the war experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Film Festival review: She Who Must Be Loved

She Who Must Be Loved – about Aboriginal media pioneer Freda Glynn – sheds light on both an epic life story and the lasting impact of Australia’s social history.

The epic story of an unlikely wartime friendship

The extraordinary story of a Ngarrindjeri Digger and a Jewish German ethnologist who became lifelong friends after meeting in a World War I POW camp is being brought to life in a new South Australian play which will have its first readings this month.

NT find tells a new history of humans in Australia

A new study pushes back the first known evidence of human activity in Australia – to 65,000 years ago. Here the research team – including Chris Clarkson from The University of Queensland – describe the significance of their discoveries.