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Media Release 20 February 2015
Honest History promotes Frontier Wars Storytelling Camp
and Anzac Day Frontier Wars March
Honest History, the Canberra based association which challenges the misuse of Australian history in the service of political or other agenda, is promoting the Frontier Wars Storytelling Camp and the Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars Anzac Day March on its website.
"This is good news," says Storytelling Camp promoter, Graeme Dunstan of Peacebus.com. "The Honest History website has huge influence with Australian history students and teachers, universities, journalists and the public generally with 600 plus Twitter followers and a 1000 direct recipients and send-ons."
"In the history of History Wars, I imagine that the Anzac Day Frontier Wars March to the Australian War Memorial on 25 April 2015 being recorded as a triumph akin to the entry into Paris of the liberating Allied armies of WW2," said Mr Dunstan.
"Aboriginal elders bearing fire with gum tip smoke billowing entering the AMW forecourt and there, Aboriginal and white Australians standing side by side and sharing ceremony which honours the dead of the Frontier Wars."
"In the regime change that will follow, It may be that a few collaborators will be outed and publicly shamed. But the prevailing mood of the nation will be one of gratitude and relief."
"Australian history will have come of age."
The Anzac Day Frontier Wars March will be the culmination of a week of storytelling at a Frontier Wars Storytelling Camp at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy starting 20 April.
The fifth annual, the March will be led by Michael Anderson, an elder of the Euahlayi people of north-western New South Wales, spokesperson for the Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia and one of the original founders of the Tent Embassy.
MThe Storytelling Camp will be welcoming to anyone and everyone, black and white, with a Frontier Wars story to tell and/or ears to hear.
The invitation to participate is going out to Aboriginal mob all around Australia and to historians and history teachers too.
The Camp will have formal storytelling sessions which will be advertised. Dr Tim Bottoms, author of Conspiracy of Silence - Queensland Killing Times 1840 -60 (2012), will be a special guest.
The Camp will also offer lots of opportunities for informal storytelling around multiple campfires and in multiple shade marquees.
If you have a Frontier War story to tell and want to book a time to tell it, please call me.
All story telling sessions will be recorded. Every massacre named will be emblazoned on a placard and carried to the War Memorial on Anzac Day.
Day visitors welcome and school groups too. Bookings helpful but not essential.
Further information
Graeme Dunstan, Promoter, Peacebus.com, 04076 951 688
Ghillar Michael Anderson, 0427 292 492
Downloadable Flyer here
facebook group > Frontier Wars Camp 2015
Report of the 2014 Frontier Wars March
Frontier Wars March 2011 Vimeo
Frontier Wars March 2014 YouTube
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