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.

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...

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Main Authors: Morris, Gavin John (Author), Ungunmerr-Baumann, Miriam-Rose (Author), Atkinson, Judith (Author), Schuberg, Emma L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2023]
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Table of 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
  • References
  • 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