Unravelling the past for the First People is key to a new partnership between Griffith University and the Mithaka People of South West Queensland.
Mithaka People are the Native Title owners of 33,800 square kilometres in the Channel Country of southwest Queensland, as well as the last claimants to a further 22,000 square kilometres west of Cooper’s Creek.
Today (July 24) the Mithaka People launched their Research Framework. This research framework will support Mithaka Traditional Owners and their research partners to:
establish trust between researchers and create a neutral platform for effective research;
implement best practice research using culturally sensitive guidelines and principles;
promote innovative research that traverses and benefits western and traditional knowledge;
create opportunities to develop, promote and engage with Aboriginal research.
The collaboration will allow leading scientists from Griffith’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) to further their work with the Mithaka people in Channel Country.
By integrating non-Indigenous scientific approaches with Indigenous approaches