Tag: Indigenous
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Indigenous Assistive Technology?
This morning as I continue to listen Dark Emu audio book as I was eating breakfast, Bruce Pascoe continued to describe the technological building techniques the Indigenous people in Australia used before being colonised. Listening to Pascoe discuss the different types of buildings the Aboriginals erected all across the country for permanent housing, food storage…
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Currently listening to Dark Emu, 2012, Bruce Pascoe
I am currently listening to the audio book, Dark by Bruce Pascoe published in 2014. It paints a totally different picture of pre-colonial Australia than the one we are more used to, and indeed, of my year nine or ten Humanities class in high school back in the mid ’80s. Listening, I sometimes think of…