An Indigenous social media commentator has tweeted an image of her child’s Year 11 history classwork, where a role-playing activity puts colonial pastoralists and Aboriginal people in conflict in a sensitive scenario.
In the worksheet, the information suggested a hypothetical situation where pastoralists fire their rifles in the air to scare off thirty Aboriginal people near the water .
The scenario follows another wfter the Aboriginal people have chased off convicts and killed livestock that belonged to the pastoralists.
Munanjahli, Yugambeh and South Sea Islander woman, Dr Chelsea Watego tweeted the worksheet last week, in an image and caption after her daughter came home to tell her what had gone on at school.
If you think back to your school days, what did you learn about Australian history?
Many want more of our First Nations history taught in school, and that s a view held by the National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition.
The volunteer-run organisation is running a campaign called Learn Our Truth saying that all young people deserve to be taught about our Indigenous histories.
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This is slowly changing and it is largely because of the efforts of First Nations people across the country. An example is the work of my sister Hayley McQuire and her colleagues at the National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition (NIYEC) who have just launched their Learn Our Truth campaign to encourage school leaders and educators to prioritise First Nations history in their teaching. NIYEC is the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth-led organisation solely committed to asserting our Indigenous rights to education.
“For the past two years, NIYEC has been going around the country talking with young mob about our differing experiences with education, and the theme that was recurring was the impact of feeling erased when you don’t hear your true history about what happened during colonisation,” Hayley told me.