history

Country

describes physical land and concept ideas of law, practices, language, culture, spirituality, family, identity

Sovereignty

the power a community has to govern itself and maintain their connection to country

Colonisation

one group takes over anohter’s land, tools, laws and lives

Resistance

efforts to counteract injustice

resilience

maintaining culture despite harm

culture

ideaology, customs, knowledge, identity, stories and lifestyles of a group of people

Intercultural literacy

the understanding needed to engage with other cultures respectfullyin

interpretation

explanation of the past based on evidence, questions and perspective.

significance

importance of an event, person, place or idea in history.

historical inquiry

investigating the past and developing interpretations through the proces of asking questions

endangered language

a language at risk of not being used in the future

language loss

when a language is no longer spoken

lnaguage revival

efforts to reintroduce a language

sleeping language

a language not used in every day life but is remembered, taught, renewed or revived

dominant vs counter narrative

a widely accepted version of history vs a version of history that challenge it

first contact

first encounters between colonisers and indigenous

imperialism

the dea of holding power over another group’s land/ resources

penal colony

convict colony

biological warfare

the deliberate use of biological agents to elicit death and fear

contested

a topic that’s controversial due to lack of evidence and conflicting interpretation

determinant

condition or factor that produces an outcome

dispossesion

removal of people from Country

frontier violence

violence connected to colonial expansion, disposession and resistance

punitive expedition

an organised colonial attack to punish a indigenous community

reprisal

violent response to provokation

settler colonialism

system where colonist occupy already used land

treaty

a formal political agreement