Indigenous life before and beyond Captain Cook: Reflections on self governance

Indigenous life before and beyond Captain Cook: reflections on self governance with Emily Karaka, Karla Dickens, Nicholas Galanin, Marcia Langton and Brook Andrew, is a pan-Pacific discussion on sovereignty, resistance, memory, monuments and solidarity punctuated around the 250 year anniversary of the then Lieutenant Cook illegally (under international law of the time) claiming the lands of Australia and it's islands for the British monarchy in1770 for the establishment of a British colony. Artists Emily, Karla and Nicholas reflect on their own practices and artworks in NIRIN and commitments to culture and place, whilst Marcia Langton reflects on her essay commissioned for NIRIN: Ancient Sovereignty: Representing 65,000 years of Ancestral Links to Land.