![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout history, Indigenous peoples have more often been objects of research and not initiators (states Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney). ![]() The creation story has another version, handed down not by colonists, but through generations of Wadawurrung family testimony of the survival of people and history that pre-date colonisation. One of these stories was the Bundjil Creation Story, still relevant today. 19th century colonists recorded voices of Wadawurrung ancestral stories. Traditional ways of living, engaging with Country and each other were changed when colonisers embedded themselves into Wadawurrung Country. “The denial of First Nations cultures, structures, lores and traditional ways, has throughout the history of Australia posed many falsehoods about First Nations peoples. ![]()
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