HIST 1107 - Indigenous Culture & History

This course will introduce students to Indigenous culture and history. It will consider traditional Aboriginal Society practices and structures, including Indigenous religion and beliefs (kinships, lore and the Dreaming), and relationships to the land and environment. It will then introduce policies and events that have affected Aboriginal society since colonisation, including policies that led to the Stolen Generation, welfare and church practices, Protector practices, social policies of segregation, and policies of self determination. Students will undertake a number of local field trips which will provide a range of experiences of traditional Aboriginal Dreaming Stories, Aboriginal Art/Artefacts, and Aboriginal Political Activism.'