Aboriginal Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/aboriginal/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:09:30 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Aboriginal Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/aboriginal/ 32 32 116298986 So this is what it feels like to lose your country https://mikefrost.net/so-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-lose-your-country/ https://mikefrost.net/so-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-lose-your-country/#comments Mon, 06 Jan 2020 08:00:07 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29282 In other countries they have wars… I’ve always thought of my country as not the place that has flood, famine, war – you know, all the apocalyptic stuff. But I was wrong, wasn’t I? I guess my overwhelming feeling is of loss. It’s grief. Australia is a precious and beautiful place. It smells and sounds […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/so-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-lose-your-country/feed/ 3 29282 Lies they taught me in school about the ‘Brown People’ of this land https://mikefrost.net/lies-they-taught-me-in-school-about-the-brown-people-of-this-land/ https://mikefrost.net/lies-they-taught-me-in-school-about-the-brown-people-of-this-land/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:24:21 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28438 When I was in school in the 1960s we were all made to read a book entitled, The Dreamtime: Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings (1965). That book was dedicated “To the Brown People, who handed down these Dreamtime Myths.” Those “Brown People” — the original inhabitants of the nation of Australia — were presented to […]

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