Remembering Dispossession: Interpreting Aboriginal Historical Narratives

Remembering Dispossession grapples with the challenge to produce Australian historical studies that have Aboriginal peoples own interpretations and moral reasonings at their core. How best to do this is a defining issue in Australian Indigenous history and cultural studies, and one that requires renewed criticalengagement by each generation. The notion of 'remembering dispossession' is offered as an means for exploring the ways in which Aboriginal people have used historical storytelling and other modes ofremembrance to make sense of their experience, and of themselves and others, under radically altered conditions. The project entails fresh critical engagement with 'dispossession' as a key theme and concept in Australian history.