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An indigenous approach to reparations
An ethical approach to reparations is about more than just money, argues anthropologist Max Serjeant through his experience with indigenous peoples in Australia and Latin America
When governments seek to address past wrongs through reparations, this should of course include fiscal resources, but the following examples provide a lesson for future initiatives. Reparation projects should incorporate indigenous ways of understanding the world
A few years ago I was sitting on the front veranda of an Aboriginal woman’s house in a small town on the edge of mining country. She was contentedly explaining the importance to her traditional belief system of a piece of land several hundred miles away, and how a proposed mining project could impact it. To her, it was impossible to separate the religious myths connected to that land from the rules governing social behaviour, which include even who a person can marry. Hers was an all-encompassing system, encapsulated by frequent references to ‘the law’ – which could equally validly be interpreted as ‘the lore’.
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