A History of Power:

Through this website, I will provide a brief historical overview of the Aboriginal concept originally mistranslated as “the Dreaming/Dreamtime” by Francis Gillen and Walter B. Spencer and the different perspectives of following anthropologists, on both what I call "English Dreaming" and the importance of a culturally-aware linguistics approach when it comes to studying Indigenous folklore. This website is not an exhibition of Aboriginal culture as, given that folklore is forms of communication between groups, the folk group of interest for this research project is anthropologists of colonial borders. Additionally, the website will include an analysis of how mistranslations, misperception, and diminishment affects power dynamics between the Aboriginal people and colonists of settled Australia today. Specifically, I hope to establish an introductory understanding of the role Aboriginal folklore plays in the preservation of Indigenous rights and the importance of anthropology work in borderlands spaces.