ABSTRACT
First Nations people relocated to settler cities in Australia, Aotearoa, Canada, and the United States of America post-World War II. There were variations in the details. Some were forced to relocate under government social experiments, and some relocated voluntarily under less innocuous, but no less problematic, government social experiments designed to socially engineer First Nations peoples.
Chapter 2 explains the complexities of Indigenous relocation, challenging the myth that First Nation peoples who relocated to cities gave up their culture. It illustrates instead how relocation saw a gradual uprising of Indigenous cultural resurgence in settler-colonial cities. The chapter explores Koori accounts about why they relocated to Newcastle from the 1940s to 1970s, exposing a complex bricolage of political, social, and economic factors associated with relocation.
