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Dark Emu Bruce Pascoe 1. Pascoe talks about the potential benefits of using kangaroo meat and native grains to various aspects of the Australian agriculture industry, but one of the barriers of this is the idea of ‘ownership’ (page 64). a. Discuss what you think this means. b. As a potential consumer, think about your own personal response to eating Australian native foods would be and how these responses could affect their introduction into mainstream diets. 2. Which concept of agriculture/land permanence surprised you the most? Which did you find the most interesting? 3. Indigenous people used controlled burning to improve soil quality, productivity and reduce the likelihood of dangerous bushfires. In recent years, burn offs have increased to try to manage bushfires. Choose of the agriculture/land management practices described in the book. Do you think it could be applied to contemporary Australian agricultural practises? If yes, what could be the short- and long-term implications of doing this? 4. Pascoe says that if we can understand that ‘Aboriginal people did build houses, did build dams, did sow, irrigate…did construct a system of pan-continental government that generated peace and prosperity, it is likely we will love and admire our land all the more.’ What do you think he means by this? 5. How do you think Indigenous people feel about the ways non-Indigenous Australians manage the land? Use excerpts from Dark Emu to explain your answer. 6. Reread the last few pages (157-160) from chapter 4, ‘Storage and Preservation.’ How did this story of Pascoe’s encounter with ‘white experts’ make you feel? Discuss some ways to tackle these sorts of behaviours from non-Indigenous people. 7. Discuss what the ‘superior civilisation’ theory was (159, 224) and how it was used to justify white occupation of Australia. 8. Analysing rock structures, tools, carvings, plant domestication etc. has estimated Indigenous occupation of Australia at anything from 40,000 to 60,000 and up to 120,000 years. Why is having this number so important to understanding Indigenous culture? 9. Discuss Pascoe’s take on the current trajectory of humankind (226) and how the contrast of Capitalism and Aboriginalism lead to the point of development that Australia was at in 1770, and how current development fails the country now. 10. Read and reflect on the Uluru Statement from the Heart available on Canvas. How could you use the concepts in Dark Emu to meet the requests made in the Statement?...