Every Hill Got A Story: collected First Nations oral histories are a profound gift to national memory | Paul Daley
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Bequeathed from memory to memory, these records remind us how recently central Australian Indigenous people felt the upheaval of colonialism
Massacres recounted in chilling detail, recollections of the first time an Aboriginal person saw a camel or a car, and the double-edged harshness and compassion of missionaries might, for many non-Indigenous Australians, seem like the preserve of a foreign and distant world.