ABSTRACT
White settler history societies and museums often engage with the Krowathunkooloong Keeping Place when they seek Gunai Kurnai participation in exhibitions and projects. This is often in the form of requests for specific items that are not culturally appropriate and can contest Gunai Kurnai sovereignty. This chapter describes two cases in which local white history societies engaged with the Keeping Place. We use a directed research approach wherein Rob Hudson, the Gunai Kurnai Monero Ngarigo Cultural Manager of the Keeping Place, directs Shannon Woodcock, a white historian, to engage with her fellow white colonists, which Shannon does with an explicitly anti-racist research methodology. This chapter highlights the need for white historians and scholars to engage with local history societies using anti-racist methodology to name and stand against the harm these organisations can inflict on Aboriginal communities.
