Doris pilkington garimara interview questions
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Nugi Garimara (Doris Pilkington) interviewed by Christine Watson.
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Doris pilkington garimara interview questions
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One of the biggest struggles faced by Aboriginal people in Australia since colonisation is the struggle against the erasure of Aboriginal memory and identity--on both individual and communal levels. Paul Connerton suggests that a community loses its identity 'when a state apparatus is used in a systematic way to deprive its citizens of their memory...
The mental enslavement of the subjects of a [colonial] regime begins when their memories are taken away. When a large power wants to deprive a small community of its national consciousness it uses the method of organised forgetting.' (2)
In Australia, this system of 'organised forgetting' took various insidious forms: the legal designation of Australia as terra nullius; the removal of Aboriginal pe