Articles related to "Wik"

Our guest writer, a Wik woman from Aurukun on Cape York, Australia, writes about her struggle for recognition of Aboriginal language in Indigenous education.

Australian customary Aboriginal land rights have been reaffirmed in the courts, but the battle continues against extinguishment and watering down of Native Title.

The myth of "first contact". Europeans were the last in Australia. International relations were established with Asia long before, between scholars, traders and farmers.

Is Indigenous ill-health a resource cultivated by an exploitative Aboriginal health service industry? Or is it the bigotry of health workers that keeps us sick?

The record of John Howard's interaction with Australian Aborigines from 1996 to 2007 reveals an aggressive colonial agenda.

Colonists retaining Indigenous place names for towns are not always thrilled to find out what the Aboriginal language words actually mean...

Celebrate Thanksgiving with recently released family-friendly videos featuring people gathered together to share good times with good food.

Answering some FAQ's about personal identity and duality in Indigenous and non-Indigenous contexts, especially the impact of the "mixed race" myth on Aboriginal heritage.

Since 1999, the Australian Government has been on CERD's agenda of urgent business, but the government has categorically failed to acknowledge this.

Non-Indigenous workers entering Indigenous communities should follow local protocols. However, often they are given "gammon protocol" based on colonial mythologies.

Aboriginal logic systems and ways of knowing are mostly dismissed as primitive and childlike. In fact they are complex systems that are vital to the future of humankind.

In Australia, the military has been deployed in an Indigenous community in response to allegations of paedophilia.

Moving house is a challenge. Real Estate, property, land, tenants - all these things have different meanings for different participants, Indigenous and non-Indigenous.