First Nations Agriculture, Land management and Plant values

Jan 29, 2017, 03:11 AM

With Bruce Pascoe, Bill Gammage, Uncle Max Harrison, Beth Gott, Heather Buith, Jimmy Onus, Dr Penny Wurm, Lorraine Williams, Ken Stewart.

Historians, writers and academics are upending the colonial lies and deception of First Nations agriculture, land management and medicinal plant knowledge, The first Nations peoples had complex systems of agriculture that went far beyond the hunter-gatherer tag. They were, in fact, our first farmers and land managers, whose intimate knowledge of the medicinal values and managing native plants and animals sustained them for thousands of years.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL 'Bush Telegraph' http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/rethinking-indigenous-australias-agricultural-past/5452454