Truth-telling and the Ancient University: Healing the Wound of Colonisation in Nauiyu, Daly River

Prologue
	Beginning the Journeys to Daly River
Contents
1 The Context
	The Context Part 1: Wounding
		Dispossession of Aboriginal Australia: A Nation’s Wound
		Colonial Practices as Policy: Eras of (Re)colonisation and (Re)dispossession
	The Context Part 2: Healing
		Health—Aboriginal View
		Health Culture Fault Lines—Between Aboriginal and Western
		Two-Ways Healing: Indigenous and Western
	References
2 The Nauiyu Experience of Colonisation: Truth-Telling as Historical Waves
	First Wave: Early European Contact and the Coppermine Massacre
		Mines, Motives, and Massacres
		Condemnations and Convictions
		Continuing Violence and Fear
	Second Wave: Jesuit Missionaries
		Establishing Settlement
		Submission to the Mission
		Civilising Before Christianising
		Social Systems and Conduct
		Flood and Exodus
	Third Wave: The Stolen Generations
		Removal to Erase
		Bringing Them Home Report
	Fourth Wave: Northern Territory Emergency Response
		The Intervention
		Little Children Are Sacred Report
		Initial Response
		Agendas and Legislative Attack
		Intervention Impact on Nauiyu
	Fifth Wave?
	References
3 Nauiyu’s Cultural Colonisation: Truth-Telling with Dadirri
	The Nauiyu Experience of Colonisation: Truth-Telling as Cultural Waves
		Context and Process of This Inquiry, Research-as-Healing
		Attending to the Interruption to Culture: Truth and Healing Through Research
		Honouring Protocol: Introduction and Transparency
		Erosion of Culture
		Western Education Wave
		New Tribes Wave
		Altered Ceremonial Practices Wave
		Disempowered Elders Wave
		Kinship Destruction Wave
		Unemployment Waves
	Decolonising Research: Truth-Telling and Transparency
		With the River: Ripples as Research and Relationship
		What Is Decolonising Research?
		An Emergent Research Model
		Differing Approaches to Knowledge
		Explaining Dadirri: Quiet, Still, Awareness
		Decolonising Research Design with Dadirri as Indigenist Research
		Dadirri and Western Research: Meeting in the Narrative
		Other Approaches to Understanding and Healing
		Dealing with the Data
	Towards Empowerment in Nauiyu
	References
4 Nauiyu Empowerment: Intergenerational Voices and Stories
	Empowerment as Voice and Story: Counteracting Colonisation
		Empowerment as Self-Determination
		Barriers to Self-Determination
		Strengths-Based Self-Determination
	Nauiyu’s Trauma and Grief
		Cascading Trauma
		Cycles of Grief
		Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Rates of Incarceration
		Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Suicide and Self-Harm
		Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Alcohol and Marijuana Misuse
		Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Sexual Assault
		Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Victim or Perpetrator of Violence
		Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Overcrowding
		Intergenerational Trauma Stories: Strength in Understanding
	References
5 Nauiyu Empowerment: Owning Our Solutions
	Healing with Culture as Medicine
		Connection to Country
		Painting as a Form of Healing
		Cultural Tools and Artefacts
		Songs as Healing
		Healing Through Dadirri
		Ceremony
		Initiation Ceremonies
		Smoking Ceremonies
		Reclaiming Traditional Lore
		Witch Doctors
		Sorcery
	Barriers to Healing
		Racism
		Power Imbalance
		Lack of Trust
		Lack of Culturally Trained Staff
	Ancient University: Self-Determined, Safe Place-Based Healing with Traditional Knowledge
6 Truth-Telling and the Ancient University
	Ancient University: Truth-Telling Community [Solutions/Alternatives] and Care Industries
		Re-Centring Holistic Health
		Inadequacies of Non-Indigenous Service Providers
		Local Capacity Building, Employment for Community Members
		Educare: Creating a Community of Care Within a Community of Practice
		Truth-telling Implications of Un-healed Present and Alternate Futures
	References
Postlude: Mermaid Dreaming, Murals, and Moving Forward
References