as emotional labour, educational burden
and tokenism (often asked to represent
the entire community or serve as the
"educator" for others, often without formal
recognition). Learn More.
Cultural Safety
An environment that is safe for people:
where there is no assault, challenge or
denial of their identity, of who they are
and what they need. It is about shared
respect, shared meaning, shared
knowledge and experience of learning,
living and working together with dignity
and truly listening. Learn more.
Australia, who never consented to being
‘subsumed within the Australian nation’
(Mansell, 1998). Indigenous sovereignty
differs from Western models of
sovereignty based on the idea of ‘a unified
supreme authority, territorial integrity,
and individual rights’ (Moreton-Robinson,
2008, p. 2).
In contrast, Indigenous sovereignty
is carried in the body, derived from
Indigenous ways of being and knowing,
and grounded in the interrelationships
between ‘ancestral beings, humans and
land’ (Moreton-Robinson, 2008, p. 2).
Colonialism
Colonialism is the policy or practice
of acquiring full or partial control over
another country, occupying it, exploiting it
economically, and extracting its material
and cultural resources. Colonial rule also
had a destructive effect on Indigenous
cultures, knowledges, and traditions
through the imposition of European social
norms and education models.
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Settler Colonialism
Settler colonialism is distinguished from
colonialism because it aims to create a
settler society on Indigenous land and
not only to extract from the land for the
enrichment of the colonising society.
Settler colonialism seeks the ‘elimination
of the native’ through various means,
from genocide to assimilation. Settler
colonialism is a ‘structure, not an event’
because it is a continual practice that
transforms over time (Wolfe, 2006).
Indigenous Sovereignty
Indigenous sovereignty is derived from the
continued existence of diverse Indigenous
peoples on the lands currently known as
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