Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The Aboriginal History Archive (AHA) at Victoria University houses a vast collection of documents, music and photographs from and about Aboriginal Black Power, Land Rights and Self-Determination movements in so-called Australia.Originating with the Foley Collection, collected by Gumbaynggirr man, activist and historian Professor Gary Foley since the 1960s, the AHA has grown in size, been organised and catalogued, and is established and governed by Aboriginal people for Aboriginal people.This article outlines the content of the archive and the reflections of First Nations people and non-Indigenous people who work in the AHA.These shared insights of Foley's collaborators at the AHA into the structure, importance and personal experience of the AHA highlight its unique way of working and how it both documents and continues community know-how and political struggle.'This archive is under Aboriginal control and will be so into the future.
Source: Aboriginal History Journal
Authors: Will Bracks, Coen Brown, Clare Land, Gary Foley, Jon Hawkes, Kim Kruger, Rochelle le Pere, Natasha Ritchie, Shannon Woodcock
Institution: Australian National University
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402339606