Aboriginal Histories and Aboriginal Perspectives Essay QUOTE: “I would not hesitate for one moment to separate any half-caste from its Aboriginal mother‚ no matter frantic her momentary grief might be at the time. They soon forget their offspring.” C.F. Gale‚ Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia‚ 1909‚ quoted in Tatz‚ C. (1999)‚ Genocide in Australia. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Research Discussion Paper number 8‚ Canberra: AIATIS
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Methodist mission in the Northern Territory. When the mission lease expired‚ the Federal Government changed it to a special purpose lease that could be taken away for mining‚ but no Aboriginal people were consulted. When the Methodist missionaries Edgar and Ann Wells arrived at Yirrkala‚ they learnt that the Aboriginal people were very disturbed and anxious that the mining would violate their sacred sites but despite the feelings of the Aborigines‚ the Prime Minister‚ Robert Menzies‚ announced that
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Lucid Dreaming Dreams are the playground of the mind. Anything can happen when one is dreaming. The only limitation is that we only rarely realize the freedoms granted to us in our dreams while we have them. Lucid dreaming is the ability to know when one is dreaming‚ and be able to influence what will be dreamt. A normal dream is much like passively watching a movie take place in your skull. In a lucid dream‚ the dreamer is the writer‚ director‚ and star of the movie. Lucid dreams are exceptionally
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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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Chapter 3 Aboriginal people: Spiritual traditions are deeply connected to the physical environment and life is seen as interconnected. They rely on memory and memory keepers who have received teachings from the elders. Traditions of seasonal food growing‚ gathering‚ hunting‚ fishing‚ and spiritual and cultural activities Elders: Can be a man or a woman that is recongized as wise and consulted for their experience. Not always the oldest person in the community. Europe vs. Aboriginal: Many Europeans
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centered around vanity and personal gain. Such thought provoking concepts are addressed in E.E. Cummings’ poetic masterpiece “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town.” People tend to function in patterns beyond their own comprehension‚ never realizing the never ending loop that
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Aboriginal spirituality. Origins of the Universe Different Aboriginal groups have varying creation stories with some general‚ common features Ancestors emerged from land features (e.g. rock formations) which are considered Sacred sites These supernatural beings created the natural world Each group has an ancestor and a natural species or totem (e.g. emu) Sacred Sites May be land‚ rock formations‚ parts of rivers or seas that are linked to Dreaming stories Also may be burial grounds‚
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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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“anyone lived in a pretty how town” analysis This poem by e.e. Cummings is one of the rear pieces of his work that resembles a typical‚ ordinary poem. At least that’s what its structure reveals – the poem consists of 9 quatrains written with no particular meter and a rhyming scheme of a a b c. Regardless of the poem’s fairly common structure‚ we can easily notice some irregularities in the writing. The one that is most striking at a first glance is the use of lower case letters both in the title
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Grief Oppression has never been a word I have thought of when I thinking of the treatment of women. I have recently discovered women authors in history that have lived a double life that only women can. In the 1800s when Constance Fenimore Woolson and Mary E. Wilkings Freeman lived‚ they fought for equality with their words and the way they lived. They were women who were expected to be just pretty but silent‚ and they have been paving the way for women in the future to speak their minds . Though Woolson
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