Truth-telling and the ancient university : healing the wound of colonisation in Nauiyu, Daly River / Gavin John Morris, Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, Judith Atkinson, Emma L. Schuberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Gavin John, author.

Ungunmerr-Baumann, Miriam-Rose, author.

Atkinson, Judith, author.

Schuberg, Emma L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Medical care--Australia--Northern Territory.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory--Social life and customs.

Indigenous peoples--Australia--Northern Territory--Ethnic identity.

Indigenous peoples.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory--Psychology.

Daly River (N.T.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2023]

Summary:

This book shares a strength-based truth-telling model, which reveals the trauma associated with the experience of colonisation and the traditional healing practices specific to the Nauiyu Nambiyu community in Australia. It explores the significance of community placed on developing the 'Ancient University', an Aboriginal-based, stand-alone healing centre that incorporates traditional healing practices. This book outlines the truth-telling model, which was developed by the Nauiyu community to address a community need. This unique approach represents a deliberate shift from decolonial scholarship, which merely captures Indigenous voice speaking back to the colonisers. This book explores Indigenous critical pedagogies to investigate theoretical frameworks with implications for planning, learning and teaching which are culturally responsive in a variety of contexts. It is the first of its kind that utilises an Indigenous research methodology on the country and with the people to which it belongs.

Contents:

Intro

Prologue

Beginning the Journeys to Daly River

Contents

1 The Context

The Context Part 1: Wounding

Dispossession of Aboriginal Australia: A Nation's Wound

Colonial Practices as Policy: Eras of (Re)colonisation and (Re)dispossession

The Context Part 2: Healing

Health-Aboriginal View

Health Culture Fault Lines-Between Aboriginal and Western

Two-Ways Healing: Indigenous and Western

References

2 The Nauiyu Experience of Colonisation: Truth-Telling as Historical Waves

First Wave: Early European Contact and the Coppermine Massacre

Mines, Motives, and Massacres

Condemnations and Convictions

Continuing Violence and Fear

Second Wave: Jesuit Missionaries

Establishing Settlement

Submission to the Mission

Civilising Before Christianising

Social Systems and Conduct

Flood and Exodus

Third Wave: The Stolen Generations

Removal to Erase

Bringing Them Home Report

Fourth Wave: Northern Territory Emergency Response

The Intervention

Little Children Are Sacred Report

Initial Response

Agendas and Legislative Attack

Intervention Impact on Nauiyu

Fifth Wave?

References

3 Nauiyu's Cultural Colonisation: Truth-Telling with Dadirri

The Nauiyu Experience of Colonisation: Truth-Telling as Cultural Waves

Context and Process of This Inquiry, Research-as-Healing

Attending to the Interruption to Culture: Truth and Healing Through Research

Honouring Protocol: Introduction and Transparency

Erosion of Culture

Western Education Wave

New Tribes Wave

Altered Ceremonial Practices Wave

Disempowered Elders Wave

Kinship Destruction Wave

Unemployment Waves

Decolonising Research: Truth-Telling and Transparency

With the River: Ripples as Research and Relationship

What Is Decolonising Research?

An Emergent Research Model

Differing Approaches to Knowledge

Explaining Dadirri: Quiet, Still, Awareness

Decolonising Research Design with Dadirri as Indigenist Research

Dadirri and Western Research: Meeting in the Narrative

Other Approaches to Understanding and Healing

Dealing with the Data

Towards Empowerment in Nauiyu

4 Nauiyu Empowerment: Intergenerational Voices and Stories

Empowerment as Voice and Story: Counteracting Colonisation

Empowerment as Self-Determination

Barriers to Self-Determination

Strengths-Based Self-Determination

Nauiyu's Trauma and Grief

Cascading Trauma

Cycles of Grief

Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Rates of Incarceration

Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Suicide and Self-Harm

Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Alcohol and Marijuana Misuse

Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Sexual Assault

Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Victim or Perpetrator of Violence

Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Overcrowding

Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Strength in Understanding

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 07, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Morris, Gavin John Truth-Telling and the Ancient University

ISBN:

9789819961597

9819961599

OCLC:

1406412972

Access Restriction:

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