A great excerpt from a longer work by preeminent indigenous scholar, Aileen Moreton-Robinson. While some of the material may seem to echo ideas in post-colonial and American studies, she was one of the first people to theorize the position of indigenous Australians. In this piece she articulates the way in which the academy continues to position the indigenous Australian (or in that context “The Aboriginal”) as an object of knowledge–something to be studied and further colonized via knowledge, rather than as a category of person who can also become the researcher, thinker, theorizer, or academic.