Learning to walk together and work together: providing a formative teaching experience for Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage managers

Abstract

[Extract] With the recognition of the diversity of rights- and stakeholders in the past, archaeologists and heritage managers are working increasingly to develop programmes that fit the needs of those stakeholders. In the 1970s in Australia, there was little recognition in law or policy of the connection between the academic study of Aboriginal archaeology and the contemporary Aboriginal community. This was particularly the case in southern Australia, where the Aboriginal community was considered, after 200 years of settlement, to have been severed from its traditional roots and indeed from any consciousness of or concern for the long and extraordinary history of Aboriginal occupation of Australia.