The history of the West: Shane Smithers

Dr Shane Smithers, course coordinator and advisor for Community and Social Development at the University of Western Sydney, himself a Darug man, describes the early history of settlement and the impact on the local Darug people then and now.

Keywords: Identity; racism; heritage; working; early settlement

West
Time Periods
Glossary

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All the video recordings on this website were made at least a decade ago. Some are fifteen years old.

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