Aboriginal Resistance, Activism and Agency: A Historical Report

This report examines Aboriginal resistance, activism, and agency, focusing on the diverse forms of activism and resistance employed by Aboriginal people. It explores the role of non-Indigenous people in struggles for social justice, highlighting the contributions of Indigenous people in preserving natural resources and advocating for equal rights. The report profiles significant Indigenous leaders, including Pearl Gibbs and Bill Onus, and their contributions to activism. It references scholarly sources such as Cox and Birdsall-Jones (2019), Grieve-Williams (2020), and Osmond (2019) to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject. This report provides a historical analysis of the impact of Indigenous leaders and their efforts in driving social change.

Aboriginal
Resistance, Activism
and Agency

Diverse Forms Of Activism And
Resistance Utilised By Aboriginal
People
Activism is the use of direct and noticeable action to attain a result,
mainly a social or political one such as black/student activism.
Resistance is the practice or doctrine that focuses direct vigorous
action particularly in support of or opposition to single side of a
controversial issues.

Role of non-Indigenous
people in struggles for social
justice
Non-Indigenous people are those people that not have relationship to the
human and non-human communities. Indigenous people can support
preserve natural resources by preventing damage to the environment
as well as protecting traditional buildings, along with the development
of handicrafts to attract large number of tourists and create economic
conditions in their own environment. They also had their role in
struggles for social Justice by providing equal rights to the people.

Significant Indigenous
Leader
The two indigenous leaders selected are Pearl Gibbs and Bill Onus.
These both were having significant contribution for bringing
change in their period of time. They did many activities which
falls under the preview of activism and resistance

References
Cox, S., & Birdsall-Jones, C. (2019). From Activists to
Illegally Occupying Land: Aboriginal Resistance as
Moral Ecology in Perth, Western Australia. In Moral
Ecologies (pp. 83-97). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Grieve-Williams, V. (2020). ‘We Have Survived the White
Man’s World’: A Critical Review of Aboriginal Australian
Activism in Media and Social Media. From Sit-Ins to#
revolutions: Media and the Changing Nature of Protests,
19.
Osmond, G. (2019). Decolonizing Dialogues: Sport,
Resistance, and Australian Aboriginal Settlements.
Journal of Sport History. 46(2) 288-301.