Aboriginal Identity in Post-Colonial Australia The colonisation’ of Australia by Europeans has caused a lot of problem for the local Aborigines. It drastically reduced their population‚ damaged ancient family ties‚ and removed thousands of Aboriginal people from the land they had lived on for centuries. In many cases‚ the loss of land can mean more than just physical displacement. Because land is so much connected to history and spirituality‚ the loss of it can lead to a loss of identity. This
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Aboriginal spirituality Aboriginal or indigenous culture is one of the oldest recorded cultures in the world. Aboriginal people have common beliefs and traditions that guide them in contemporary society. The Creation Period - The Dreamtime Similar to other religions and beliefs‚ aboriginal people believe in the time when world and was created. This period is referred to as the Creation Period. The Aboriginal people believe that land was formed by ancestral beings during creation period. These
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Aboriginal Culture Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime. Reverence for the land and oral traditions are emphasised. Language groupings and tribal divisions exhibit a range of individual cultures. Australian Aboriginal art has existed for thousands of years and ranges from ancient rock art to modern watercolour landscapes. Aboriginal music has developed a number of unique instruments. Contemporary Australian aboriginal
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What does Terra Nullius mean? From at least 60‚000 B.C.‚ Australia was inhabited entirely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with traditional‚ social and land rights. To the Aborigines the land was everything to them and is closely linked to their Dreaming stories. Dreaming is the belief system which explains how the ancestral beings moved across the land and created life and significant geographic features. In consideration‚ the Indigenous Australians are a people with a close
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of life- food‚ clothing and shelter dated back since over 40‚000 years ago when Aborigines first came to Australia. In present period‚ Indigenous still are spiritually linked to the land rights of this country‚ which will be further discussed and analysed throughout this ethnographic report. 2. Aboriginal Spirituality Indigenous Spirituality is recognized and defined as the core of Aboriginal being‚ it is the general notion of the interconnecting elements of creation. It is the relationship between
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Holiday HW- A) Aboriginal spirituality and the dreaming Q1- Kinship is a complex system of belonging and responsibility within a clan based on family and totem relations that govern daily Aboriginal life by determining issues. The dreaming has in itself prescribed the peoples kinship ties and permeates throughout the system by: Assigning responsibilities to transmit knowledge of the dreaming from elders to younger generations Providing the basis on which aboriginal society is structured on; maintained
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For generations Australians have been taught to believe the country was peacefully settled by Europeans. Discuss whether this is true or not. Majority of Australians are taught to believe that Australia was a peacefully settled country by Europeans. Only Ancient Indigenous Australian communities know for a fact from their ancestors‚ that this is not true. Indigenous Australians lived in the country for thousands of years before the Europeans ’ invasion. They believed the land owned them not they
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wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders. Another on going issue as a result of European settlement is racism. Due to past discriminatory policies and legislation‚ Aboriginal people have been denied access and participation in education‚ access to information‚ training and employment and health‚ resulting in grief and substance abuse. It is important in a childhood education and care service to take into account these historical/contemporary issues and the culture of the Aboriginal/Torres
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The health of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples compared to the non-Indigenous population is significantly poorer (Wieland 2014‚ p. 12). The “Closing the Gap” campaign aims to create generational Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality (Wieland 2014‚ p. 12). This essay will discuss the Aboriginal And Torres Strait health reforms‚ factors that impact on their health and wellbeing and strategies that allow protection against adversity. This essay will also discuss
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National Aboriginal and Islander Heath Organisation‚ which states that Health is a multidimensional concept‚ which embraces all aspects of living and stresses the importance that Aboriginal people place on being in harmony with the environment as well as survival (1982). This embraces the idea that health is achieved through implementing all aspects of living‚ including biological‚ physical‚ environmental‚ cultural‚ spiritual and politicoeconomic factors of living (National Aboriginal and Islander
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