First Nations Resistance, Activism and Empowerment

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This unit focuses on the history of First Nations' resistance, self-representation and sovereignty expressed through cultural strengths, alliance-building capacity, and effective participation in decision-making processes. Students develop critical understandings of their journey toward becoming culturally responsive, and how this relates to building maturity in Australian society. Students explore anti-colonial and political movements, creative expression, education, and other forms of resistance to the colonial state, to enhance their understandings of truth, treaty, and reconciliation in pre-contact Australia. Examples of resistance provide critical insight into colonial hegemony, and the formation of grass roots activism and alliance-based campaigns. The unit privileges First Nations peoples’ standpoints in Australia and elsewhere, to develop critical understandings of resistance, activism and empowerment through media, literature, education, sport, and art. The strength of self-determination and culture emerges as a theme.

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