Australia’s aboriginals has been the longest surviving cultural background in the history of the world‚ with around 2% of Australia’s population. Australia’s aboriginals migrated from Asia at least 30 thousand years ago‚ comprising 500-600 distinct groups. Their strong spiritual beliefs‚ tribal culture of storytelling‚ art‚ and history tie them together to their land. The aboriginals are characterised by having gods who created humans and surrounding environment. Each groups of aboriginals believes
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of confusion & has given humanity a belief since the beginning of time that there is a perfect reality that les beyond this imperfect world. • Dating back to thousands of years ago when Indigenous Aboriginal Australians were the only human existence on the continent Australia the Aboriginal people believed in a perfect reality that lies beyond our imperfect world. • Every world religion has characteristics that contribute to it. The Characteristics of
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The impact of colonisation to the aboriginals was that the aboriginals lost their land to the british. The british took all of the Aboriginal people tools and weapons. The Aboriginals thought it was sharing so they took some of the british tools. The british did not think of it as sharing the thought it was stealing.when the aboriginals found out there were not sharing the aboriginals got mad. Sharing is part of the law.so the aborginas got mad at the british for not shareing.the british also ruinad
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countries addressed the same issue in different ways. The United States had at an early stage integrated First Nations peoples into their laws‚ however‚ it had aimed at assimilating them into the society over a long period of time. Yet in Canada‚ the obvious push to assimilation had been the introduction of the White Paper‚ which had been negatively received. However‚ while Canada is still on the verge of negotiating self-governance and self-determination‚ the United States lacks such opportunity
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The education of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander has become a focus of the NSW Department of Education while making policies of education in Australia as the nation strives to bring equality for them. The education of Aboriginal students has faced a number of challenges in the past which led to their continuous educational failure. The overt or covert form of racism has always remained a feature of Aboriginal educational polices‚ which has always marginalized these students. Any member of the
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and learning) strategies. It is evident that in today’s society Aboriginal people have many issues to overcome to give their children the best opportunities in life. Some of these include‚ poor health care‚ young pregnancy‚ isolation‚ postnatal and antenatal care‚ uneducated parents‚ alcoholism/substance abuse‚ inadequate housing‚ family violence and racism (Gordon.S. 2006). Although there has been a slight increase in Aboriginal children completing their schooling due to past government attempts
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Residential schools were created in 1990 by the government to assimilate aboriginal children into Canadian culture. However‚ these residential schools has hurt the aboriginal children in many negative ways. Unfortunately children were ripped away from their family and forced into unfamiliar situation which was very hard. The negative affects of residential schools are trauma‚ mental health‚ and self-medication. One of the main consequence of Residential schools is trauma and the cycle continued
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There are many Indigenous Australians that have made a significant impact on Australian society. These people stood up for their rights and made their voices heard. Every action they made was because of the strong belief they had for their rights‚ culture and people. Pemulwuy‚ of the Eora tribe‚ was one of the first Aborigines to stand up for his land and people. He strongly believed in his culture and fought for his rights as an indigenous Australian. He fought against the Europeans to save
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predominant and specific population by nomadic hunters. Carbon dating of skeletal remains proves that Australian Aboriginal history started some 40‚000 years ago. This history is not completely lost. It is retained in the minds and memories of compassionate generations of Aboriginal people‚ passed on through a rich oral tradition of song‚ story‚ poetry and legend. To the aboriginal culture and belief all life‚ are correlated through a networking system that can be followed down the ancestry line
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define that culture and what it’s people stand for. Australian Aboriginal mythology has almost been wiped out due to the invasion of other cultures like Christianity. However‚ there is a small percentage of people who still believe in their culture and preserve it to this day (Australian Mythology). Australian mythology aims to explain the creation of nature as well as the idea of a single connectivity between all creations‚ creators‚ and time. “Aboriginal myths about the beginning of the world
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