Cultural Wounding and Healing: Change as ongoing cultural production in a remote Indigenous Australian community

Recollections of frontier violence resonate through the trauma narratives of ethnic groups across the world. For those Indigenous populations that have survived colonial violence and found their social and cultural geographies existing within the contact zone, the experience has triggered varied cultural responses. Ranging from simmering agitation to overheating in the most aggressive of cases, responses often bring with them a realisation that things will never be the same again. Rapid cultural change or the slowing down and discontinuation of long held cultural practices can trigger profound reflexivity. With quiet and individual reflection or public and political group dissent and...