Bolshibob Bronstein
Bolshibob Bronstein describes colonisation as a near genocidal catastrophe for Indigenous Victorians, calling for compulsory teaching of First Nations history, culture, languages, and traditions in schools, and promoting Indigenous studies through various media.
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It was a near genocidal catastrophe for indigenous Victorians, almost as frightful to what happened in Van Dieman’s Lind (now Tasmania).
How sophisticated and effective first nations societies were, in co existing with the natural world
Compulsory teaching in the history, culture, languages and traditions of first nation Victorians.
By accepting that first nation Victorians were not mindless, brutish, stone age half humans, but rather a sophisticated people who lived in vibrant, living societies.
By accepting that first nation Victorians were not mindless, brutish, stone age half humans, but rather a sophisticated people who lived in vibrant, living societies.
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