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Welcome to Country: An Introduction to our First Peoples for Young Australians is essential reading for every young Australian. This seminal text introduces and illuminates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture for secondary students. Written by Professor Marcia Langton, one of Australia’s most prominent Indigenous voices, Welcome to Country is a modern, comprehensive and positive text designed to educate a new generation of Australians.
Covering everything from prehistory, post-colonial history, language, kinship, knowledge, art, performance, storytelling, native title, the Stolen Generations, making a rightful place for First Australians and looking to the future for Indigenous Australian. Young readers will come away with a solid understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia and an appreciation for the world’s oldest continuous living culture.
Professor Marcia Langton AO is one of Australia's most important voices for Indigenous Australia. She first became an Indigenous rights activist at Queensland University in the 1970s, and since then has worked with the Central Land Council, the Cape York Land Council and for the 1989 Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
In more recent times, Professor Langton has become an academic and now works at Melbourne University. Professor Langton has received many accolades, including an Order of Australia, and has authored several books. In 1999 Professor Langton was one of five Indigenous leaders who were granted an audience with the Queen to discuss the proposed recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Australian Constitution. She is also a frequent guest on the ABC's Q&A show. Professor Langton has also authored many books most notably Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia and Welcome to Country: An Introduction to our First Peoples for Young Australians.
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* Helping to keep the world’s oldest living culture strong
I think this would be a good book for those who have little or no knowledge of Australia's true history, and I think it, or something like it, should be compulsory for high-school students to read as part of the curriculum. It was never taught to us in school, and it needs to be.
Great quality tea towel but still needs a few washes so it dries. I love the artwork and enclosed artist's story. I don't want to wash it as I love the way it brightens my kitchen.
Purchased this Book to learn more about Australia's First People, there wasn't much true History when I was at school many years ago except for the negative stories. I wanted to know more from people that live and breathe it.
I've only started to read this book and hope to get further into it over the next few months.
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Benefitting Indigenous artists and communities.
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With Welcome to Country you are not only buying a beautiful product, your purchase directly benefits Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
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