Throughout my journey of completing my reconciliation plan of helping with the Indigenous tutoring and interviewing them I learnt a lot more than I did before I started. I learnt that there are so many different perspectives on the history of Indigenous people, not only about the stolen generation which many people are educated about but about the way their communities live now and how it has impacted the communities in todays society. I interviewed Indigenous students from St. Brigid’s College in Lesmurdie ranging from the ages of twelve to eight teen, which …show more content…
I then interviewed the
Indigenous Liaison Officer, Lisa Fieldhouse at the school also known as the AIEW. I learnt a lot from her view on reconciliation and her view on what should happen to make Australia a better place and what they should and could do to get closer to reaching true reconciliation in her point of view. Lisa’s view was my highlight because those who I interviewed did not know what would make a better place, they just were taught was reconciliation is and what has happened. This is because they are not education enough about it, it proves even those from the same cultural background are limited the amount of history they learn on
Indigenous people of Australia. Lisa believes that they also haven't reached true equality, which I though was interesting. I believe that by me interviewing them and giving her feedback she realised how much people lack of knowledge about this issue, even those of the decent. The second goal which I took part in was educating those with the history of
Indigenous people. Through this I learnt how little people know about the Indigenous history, they know the basics, yet some don't even know any. I spent a whole day education