Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art by Darren Jorgensen, Ian McLean

Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art by Darren Jorgensen, Ian McLeanIn recording and ordering documents considered important, the archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purpose. Indigenous communities understood the power of the archive well before the European Enlightenment arrived and began recording information about the people they colonized. For these Indigenous people, colonialism has been a struggle

About a year - so bring a good book

As the smoke clears

From Triceratops and T

meaning 'good death'

He boards alone

These poems speak of the world that is

1967- Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution

starting with the basic proportions and first drawings of the head and figure

Babbage achieved much under arduous conditions

a precocious young girl visits the alien city of the farborns and the false-men in Planet of Exile

Alison Lester grew up on a farm by the sea

In the burning heat of the Sudanese sun