Settler colonists began arriving in Dja Dja Wurrung Country in the mid-1830s, ushering in an era of mass death and destruction. If we were to rely solely upon the histories written by academic historians, we might believe that Dja Dja Wurrung people had been entirely eliminated by settler colonialism by the 1860s. But far from being erased, the Dja Dja Wurrung have survived this onslaught and found the resilience to reassert themselves as a community. Belying the written histories that constrain them to the period before the 1860s, the community is practising its own kind of history, grounded in a Dja Dja Wurrung epistemology to which kinship is central. How does this Dja Dja Wurrung mode of historical practice differ from the History of the academy? What have Dja Dja Wurrung people taught me that has shaped my own historical practice through the history work we have done together? And what might this approach uncover – what counter-narratives, what stories of resilience and life amid the unfathomable loss – that have been overlooked by traditional approaches? This paper will describe the history work of the Dja Dja Wurrung, and the radical challenge it offers to dominant modes of historical practice.