Workbook
For Aboriginal Australian Families
65,000 Years of Culture and the Conversations the Country Owes You
65,000 years of culture. Your family is part of that story. Document it.
Aboriginal Australians and their families who want to understand and document what their Aboriginal identity means: the specific Country, language group, and kinship connections; the impact of the Stolen Generations; the cultural practices maintained or being reclaimed; and what they are passing to the next generation.
The Name It First Experience
Aboriginal families carry the world's oldest continuous culture — 65,000 years of knowledge, law, and connection to Country. They also carry the weight of 200 years of colonization, genocide, forced removal of children, and ongoing systemic racism. This workbook examines what Aboriginal families actually live with: the specific connections to Country and language group that are fundamental to Aboriginal identity, the impact of the Stolen Generations on family structure and cultural connection, the cultural practices maintained in kitchens and campfires and being reclaimed in communities, and what it means to raise Aboriginal children in a country that is only beginning to acknowledge what was taken. Document the 65,000 years — and the last 200.
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Sample questions
- What does Aboriginal identity mean in your household — which Country, which language group, which kinship connections?
- What did the Stolen Generations do to your family's cultural connections — and what has your family done to maintain or reclaim them?
- What do you want the next generation to understand about the 65,000 years — and the last 200?
Research basis
Grounded in tribal sovereignty frameworks applied to Aboriginal land rights and self-determination, McCarty and Hinton language reclamation applied to Aboriginal language revival, Behrendt (2003) scholarship on Aboriginal identity and law, and Herman (1992) trauma frameworks applied to Stolen Generations survivors.
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