Prizes and Awards
> Indigenous History
Fellowship
The History Council encourages high standards of
historical practice through prizes and awards.
The NSW Indigenous History Fellowship is offered biennially by the Government to assist a person living in New South Wales to research and produce a work on a subject of historical interest relating to New South Wales from an Aboriginal point of view.
Applications for the 2008 Indigenous History Fellowship have closed. The winner will be announced at the NSW Premier's History Awards dinner.
For more information visit www.arts.nsw.gov.au.
MOST RECENT WINNER
2006 Heidi Norman
Heidi Norman has been awarded the Indigenous History Fellowship to enable her to research the impact of economic change on Aboriginal people in the Redfern and Waterloo communities.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
2004 Vicki Grieves
Vicki Grieves was awarded the Indigenous History Fellowship to enable her to work on a biography of Mr Les Ridgeway, a Worimi elder and one of the first Aboriginal public servants in New South Wales.
2002 John Maynard
In 2004, the History Council of NSW hosted a
seminar presentation at the State Library of NSW to showcase the work
undertaken by Dr John Maynard since being awarded the Indigenous History
Fellowship in 2002.
For Liberty and Freedom: Fred Maynard and the Australian Aboriginal
Progressive Association
This seminar examined the origins and early development of organised Aboriginal
political activism of the twentieth century. The historical evaluation
of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association is of critical importance
to the revision of Australian Aboriginal history. From the outset of European
occupation, Aboriginal history in traditional European accounts was denigrated
and distorted to that of myth, legend, fable and even fairy-tale. This
was followed in the contemporary setting by writing about an Aboriginal
presence as being completely outside of the mainstream Australian historical
landscape. The Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association is today
being recognised as the precursor of the Aboriginal political movement.
Yet, for several decades the deeds and struggles of the Association were
largely ignored, misunderstood, forgotten and hidden, their memory and
legacy fading into temporary oblivion.
Dr John Maynard is an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral
Fellow with Umulliko Centre for Indigenous Higher Education Research at
The University of Newcastle. His traditional roots lie with the Worimi
people of Port Stephens - New South Wales. He was the recipient of the
Aboriginal History - Stanner Fellowship at The Australian National University
in 1996, and has delivered lectures on board the QEII. John was a member
of the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association 2000-2002
and has worked with and within many Aboriginal communities - urban, rural
and remote. He is the author of Aboriginal Stars of the Turf
and Awabakal Word Finder and Dreaming Stories Companion.
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2000 Sue Green
In 2006, the History Council of NSW with the State Library of NSW hosted a seminar presentation to showcase the work undertaken by Dr Sue Green since being awarded the Indigenous History Fellowship in 2000.
‘A Jouney Back to the Past: Discovering the history of Indigenous welfare in New South Wales’
In this seminar Dr Sue Green examined the role of Aboriginal people within the history of welfare in New South Wales which is generally seen as one of passive receiver rather than of active provider. When Sue Green took up her Indigenous History Fellowship she set out to challenge this view, expecting to travel on a path that was well-trodden but just needing new eyes to bring about a new understanding. Instead, she found herself embarking on an incredible journey down many hidden paths beset with complexities and contradictions. In this compelling lecture Sue Green shares the journey of her research and her discoveries about the history of Indigenous welfare in New South Wales.
Sue Green is Associate Professor of Indigenous Education at the University of New South Wales , the Director of Nura Gili (Indigenous Programs at UNSW) and the 2005 recipient of the Neville Bonner Award, Australian Awards for University Teaching. She is a Wiradjuri woman from western New South Wales and was born on Eora land.
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1998 Shino Konishi
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