The Proper History Project

Acknowledging Indigenous peoples’ experiences of colonialism is essential to reconciliation, yet textual accounts are often limited in the insights they provide. Collaborative, community-based archaeological and anthropological research is key to addressing this gap. This research develops foodways as an approach that provides more representative, nuanced and inclusive understandings of Indigenous Australian history, enabling the production of what our Indigenous partners term “Proper History”. This will produce inclusive narratives of Indigenous Australians’ experiences of colonialism, and generate novel insights on the role of Indigenous foodways in the negotiation of power in colonial settings.