Deferred – Early Relations between the Tandanya (people of Adelaide Plains) and European Colonists, 1836 – 1840

Monday 19 September 2022

Deferred – Early Relations between the Tandanya (people of Adelaide Plains) and European Colonists, 1836 – 1840

Presented by Skye Krichauff - This lecture has been deferred due to the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II

The Adelaide district is remarkable for the positive relations that existed between the colonists and the local Aboriginal people during the earliest years of the colony’s history.

Although initially cautious, within a few months of arrival of the first ships, a group of forty Aboriginal people (comprised of men, women and children) camped alongside the newcomers at Holdfast Bay.  Colonists perceived the local as friendly, good humoured and obliging.

This talk outlines the reasons for these relatively harmonious interactions, providing relevant historical context and focusing on key individuals.

Skye Krichauff is an ethno-historian who is interested in colonial cross-cultural relations, the relationship between history and memory, and how societies live with historical injustices. 

She has convened courses on Australian history, colonial history and Aboriginal-settler history  at Flinders University, worked as a history researcher for an Aboriginal Community organisation and as an expert historian for South Australian Native Title Services.

She is currently employed as an ARC Research Fellow on the linkage project ‘Reconciling with the Frontier’.

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462B19/9/2022

Deferred – Early Relations between the Tandanya (people of Adelaide Plains) and European Colonists, 1836 – 1840

Presented by Skye Krichauff - This lecture has been deferred due to the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II

The Adelaide district is remarkable for the positive relations that existed between the colonists and the local Aboriginal people during…

462B15/8/2022

The History of heritage listing or not in Burnside

Presented by Sandy Wilkinson

Sandy will give examples of how even the most spoilt buildings can be reconstructed and saved. Historic Buildings in Burnside…

Legend

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