Victoria Grieve-Williams

Victoria Grieve-Williams is Warraimaay - an Aboriginal Australian historian who has published on Aboriginal family history, slavery, activism and the history wars in Australia. She works in interdisciplinary ways to progress the development of Indigenous knowledges, positioning Aboriginal spirituality /philosophy as the baseline for this development - with a focus on establishing the values and ethics inherent in what it means to be human in a changing world. Victoria is in the process of establishing a Healing Histories Foundation that will apply Aboriginal principles to heal the wounds of history through "truth telling" from a research base.

Articles by Victoria Grieve-Williams:

Published in Overland Issue 240 Spring 2020

Oodgeroo: Breaking the iron cycle of settler colonialism

Victoria Grieve-Williams

An important value across the Indigenous world including in Aboriginal philosophy is: Knowing that which has come before helps to understand ways forward. In Ghanaian tradition this value is represented as Sankofa, a bird with its feet facing forward, its head turned back and a gold egg in its mouth. The Twi language word translates to “go back and get it” and the associated proverb is “it is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten”. There are many ways for me, an Aboriginal person, to go back - reading the life and works of Oodgeroo (1920 – 1993) of the tribe Noonuccal is rewarding.

Published in Overland Issue 240 Spring 2020

New activisms and new futures for uncertain times

Victoria Grieve-Williams and Olivia Guntarik

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