In Episode 4 of Resurgence, Histories in Place Cultural Engagement Consultant Lloyd Pigram joins researchers Dr Mike Jones (formerly ANU, now University of Tasmania) and Dr Ben Silverstein (ANU) to talk about their collaborative work on Yawuru Country in and around Rubibi (Broome). The project included interviews with Yawuru knowledge holders, and the development of a digital story ‘Jangu yirr Janyjagurdiny’ exploring the history and culture of the area Europeans came to call Thangoo Station. Lloyd, Mike and Ben talk about the co-creation process used, the value of working in place, and the recognition that approaches used by academic historians are often not a useful place to start when thinking about the long timeframes and complex, layered stories found on Country.

You can visit the digital story ‘Jangu yirr Janyjagurdiny’ at marking-country.re.anu.edu.au/yawuru/

This podcast series was developed from work done through the Beyond Reconciliation project in the School of History at ANU, as part of the Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge (2021–2024). This was one of five ‘Grand Challenges’ mounted by the ANU with the aim to invest in transformative research to impact on the world’s most intractable problems.

The Beyond Reconciliation project was a response to the demand for a thorough-going process of truth-telling about Australia’s past. The central idea of the project was to support capacity building to pursue history-making and truth-telling in local Indigenous communities. The challenge was to work in different ways with different communities to model pathways to ‘telling the true stories they want to tell in the ways they want to tell them’.

For more information on the Beyond Reconciliation project see:

https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/acih/highlights/beyond-reconciliation-grand-challenge

The podcast series Resurgence: talking about First Nations’ Community-led Historical Practice was produced by Robyn McKenzie, for the Australian Centre for Indigenous History (ACIH) in the School of History at the Australian National University. Sound editing and composition by Emma Hoy of Signal Creative. This Podcast series has been supported by funding from the Australian National University’s Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge.

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