Teaching Indigenous histories through Indigenous ways of knowing and being

Students learn about diverse cultures In ways that recognise commonalities and differences, create connections with others and cultivate mutual respect.5 Within Indigenous ways of knowing and being, life is built from connections and relationships to each other, to Country, to Past and to Future. [...]teaching Indigenous histories through Indigenous perspectives means teaching through the lens of connectedness. The solution put forward by the hospital board and white medical staff was to make the Aboriginal mothers give birth in the morgue. Some children are known to have hidden In suitcases with many running Into the bush.10 With this telling, the power gradient shifts.11 The telling of who Indigenous people are, and who (more broadly) Australians are, is in the hands of the Stolen Generations survivors.