As mentioned in the previous post, we are hoping to reinterpret our collection of Indigenous artefacts. The following is a further excerpt from the research I am conducting:
"In addition to the academic discourse surrounding the debate, there has been a political re-imagining of Australian society as multicultural and inclusive of its Aboriginal past. Prior to the emergence of a widespread social conscience inspired by the civil rights movement in 1960s America, Aboriginal culture had been almost entirely subjugated by the near two hundred years of European nation building within Australia. Aboriginal peoples had been ejected from their lands, forced to 'assimilate' within white culture or become subject to segregationist policies. All of which conspired to dilute the traditional belief systems and quash individual tribal heritages."
