From my personal experience with my ex-partner who is an Indigenous Australian he struggled with his cultural identity and the modern identity for young Aboriginal boys in western Sydney. He had an expectation to follow his ancestor’s traditions but he was unable to find a way to integrate his culture into a paid occupation.…
In the article “Improve Aboriginal Health through Oral History,” which was published in the Toronto Star on Sunday, May 2, 2010, the author Nicholas Keung discusses the childhood of aboriginal in residential school and its effect on the healthy relationships.…
To explore three key priorities to improve lives of Aboriginals, I first introduce how the government improved educational outcomes for Aboriginals and then talk about how they ensured and supported Aboriginals’ economic participation. Thirdly, I present how the government grew the healthy and safe community.…
The centre also posts a range of Indigenous resources such as photos, maps, posters and pictures hung on the walls in order to foster children’s identity within their community and within their history. What’s more, building partnerships with each family is also significant in forming acknowledging and valuing Aboriginal and Torres strait islander cultures, which comply the National Quality Standard 6.2: Collaborative partnerships enhance children’s inclusion, learning and wellbeing (Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority, 2018). The center uses IPAD to share information through taking photos to reflect on the children learning between staff and families, which is available to communicate with families and know their ideas or comments. In order to encourage family to give some suggestions or feedbacks to educators for improving and extending the ways of knowing about indigenous cultures in the future. However, the center does not strongly highlight the pedagogies to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres strait islander ways of knowing and being into practices, just embed in the…
In this chapter, Dorothy Lee’s reading gave us a good view of different types of cultures and the personal autonomy of the people .Lee believes that “the principle of personal autonomy is supported by the cultural framework" (lee,5) She explores this by comparing our Western society to several north American aboriginal societies. When we think of our society we are only free to do things to a limit. Whether that limit may be good or bad, otherwise our individual autonomy is restricted in this society. The key problem that Dorothy Lee is addressing in this reading is the conflict between individual autonomy and social structure. Lee presents different material from a number of different societies to show “how the principle of personal autonomy is supported by the cultural framework” (lee, 1). She shows that this conflict has been resolved in the aboriginal society. In this essay I will talk about the respect the Natives have for each other’s individual integrity. Lee says “In every society we find some organized social unit; but not everywhere does the social unit provide freedom to the individual or the opportunity for spontaneous functioning; nor do we find a value for sheer personal being” (Lee, 7). In particular I will show how this situation has been resolved, when she talks about child bearing in the Wintu Indian society.…
-Obligations to the land and peopleAboriginal spirituality is determined by the kinship because kinship is the fabric of traditional aborigional society. In this extended family everybody is related through the complex web of the dreaming.Tribes are made up of clans decended from a spirit ancestor denoted by a totem. The natural totem is from the clans region. It unifies the clan under the leadership of the spirit ancestor, creating a dreaming kinship with other clans bearing the same totem.Individuals have their own totem as traditional aboriginal society believes that procreation was a dreaming event. This creates…
t h e s t o l e n g e n e r a t i o n…
In conjunction with the real material consequences of abuse within residential schools, the forceful teachings of patriarchy have created perpetual cycle of abuse within the Indigenous community today. Aboriginal women, the center of this victimization face abusive relationships and households on an every day basis. According to “Racism, Sexism, and Colonialism: The Impact on the Health of Aboriginal Women in Canada” eight out of ten Aboriginal women reported victimization by physical, sexual, psychological, or ritual abuse (Bourassa, McNabb & Hampton, 2005). This rate is twice as high as that reported by non-Aboriginal women (Bourassa, McNabb & Hampton, 2005). Within a family structure, this traumatic intimate partner violence also tends to…
The Aborigines have a particular social structure called the kinship system, this system is based around their relationships with others. When the Aboriginals meet and welcome a new person into their community or tribe they, in a way, adopt them. They become named as “daughter/sister” or “brother/son” etc. They have to name the person in relation to themselves to allow that person to fit into their society. The value of the kinship system is that it structures people's relationships, obligations and behaviour towards each other. This defines matters such as, who will look after children if a parent dies, who can marry whom, who is responsible for another person's debts or misdeeds and who will care for the sick and old. The kinship system is a complex idea, as the Aborigines are also.…
Aboriginal people are the first settlers of Canada, including the first nations, Inuit, and Métis. Upon the arrival of the European settlers of Canada who came with their own civilization, the aboriginal people were considered ignorant and uneducated. These European settlers wanted to increase literacy at the same time making their culture dominant over the aboriginal people leading to the funding for the residential schools. This is where the aboriginal children were taken for education. This became a must. The aim was to keep the aboriginal children constantly within the circle of the civilized condition. However the main idea was to kill the aboriginal culture and identity. These schools were acting like culture genocide tool. The school system suppressed and replaces aboriginal culture and identity in different aspects a few detailed in this piece of writing.…
Indigenous Australians suffer disparity within Australian society, ranging from systemic abuse to institutionalised racism, this may or may not be a direct result of the effects of colonisation and subsequent fracturing of Aboriginal society. Furthermore Australia’s first people endure a disadvantaged sociocultural existence, low literacy levels, higher infant mortality rates and low life expectancy “ For example, in 2004-05, the incidence of kidney disease for Indigenous people was 10 times higher, and diabetes three times higher, than for other Australians “ (Banks 2007). Historic and contemporary legislative control practices such as forced removal of Aboriginal children and intervention has further compounded the issues of distrust and…
In the Aboriginal culture the importance of family is somewhat different from most other foraging societies. The nuclear family is still the basic kinship unit. Everything outside of the nuclear family is where the Aboriginal kinship organization starts to get more complex. In an article written by M.H. Monroe, he states that, “Aboriginal Australia kinship is one of the most complex systems in the world” (Monroe, 2010). In the Aboriginal kinship system the nuclear family is important, but there is more emphasis on the importance of the extended family. Kinship is so important to the Aborigines that they created Aboriginal Law that dictates the behavior of one member towards different relatives.…
The different sociocultural and community environments for children in the classroom are placed at home can adjust this pattern. Normally, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children respond better to indirect communication and guidelines and having discussion with their teachers and peers. Not only that, Australian Direction in Indigenous Education document also supports this concept, where it is explained that Indigenous students may feel disgrace at being targeted or straightforwardly tended to when in a gathering together with their friends (DECS 2005, p.9). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are ordinarily taught from an early age in their home surroundings about the deep relationship of respect with their land. Linking classroom content to the land and their local community encourages deeper understanding of the concept than information that is deemed irrelevant to their environment and their community (8 Ways of Aboriginal…
kinship ties identify a complex system of beloning and responsibilities within a clan. kinship ties govern the day to day life of the aboriginal people by determining issues from whome an individual is permitted to talk to and marry, to determining what are an individual’s responsibility is to other members in the clan.…
My discussion will concentrate on the definition of Family Violence and how it affects Aboriginal children and the issues impacting upon family violence in Aboriginal communities. I will look at government policies affecting family violence in Aboriginal communities and possible suggestions for reducing the burden on Out of Home Care agencies and providers for Aboriginal children.…