Connecting Australian First Nations’ Histories with Settler Colonial Winegrape Cultivation

• Main Author: McIntyre, Julie
• Other Authors: The University of Newcastle. College of Human & Social Futures, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Historical Association 2023
• Subjects: Australian First Nations; colonial winegrowing; settler-Indigenous relations; collaborations; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1506860

The global diffusion of winegrapes (Vitis vinifera) from western Europe to European colonies since the fifteenth century is often historicized as a benefit bestowed upon those colonial places rather than an invasion of ecologies where sovereign Indigenous knowingly managed their land. British colonists in Australia associated wine production and consumption symbolically with imperial and colonial power, envisaging the material of domestic and export profits and social appeasement within the emergent colonial order. Settler colonial so winegrowing is a salient site for observing settler-Indigenous relations. This article expands upon my earlier collaborations with non-Indigenous scholars on the topic of settler-Indigenous relations in wine andgrowing consumption to highlight First Nations’ experiences of colonization.