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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Aboriginal law had lasted for hundreds of years before white settlement of Australia in 1788. The laws were based from the Dreamtime and were formed by ancestors‚ spirits and Aboriginal beliefs. These laws were passed down by a word-of-mouth tradition and as there were many different tribes consisting of many clans spread out over a large area‚ separate laws were adapted to specific tribes and areas. Aboriginal customary laws were developed and based on the aboriginal relationship to the land as
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“Why do Aboriginal people have an unbroken and ongoing connection with the City of Sydney”. Discuss this statement in relation to an ‘Aboriginal Sydney’ event/exhibition/artifact. The city of Sydney is home to the largest Aboriginal population‚ which have maintained a living‚ continuous‚ day-to-day connection with the place for over 60‚000 years. While the European invasion aimed to destroy any remains of this race‚ their strong spiritual presence remains unbroken. A major reason for the ongoing
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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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Introduction The Aboriginal Protection Act was an unjust event for the Aboriginal people in 1905. There were many short term and long term effects that have caused many problems for the Aboriginal people. The short term and long term effects shaped the Aboriginal culture and the relationship between the white people and the Aboriginals. The relationship between the white Australians and the Aboriginal people has been very tense because of this traumatic event in 1905. Context of Event The Aboriginal Protection
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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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In Canada‚ the term Aboriginal refers to First Nations‚ Metis and Inuit people who were the first to inhabit Canada. The aboriginal community represents 4% percent of the population in Canada with 1.4 million people having an Aboriginal heritage in 2011. (Statistics Canada‚ 2015). As aboriginals were the first people to inhabit Canada comes a long history full of injustices including a major injustice know as residential schools. Aboriginal people face multiple barriers in modern Canada such as
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy‚ 1972 Land is the right to ownership of a country. What does land mean to Aboriginals? Aboriginals have a strong spiritual connection with land‚ Aboriginal law and spirituality is intertwined with their land‚ the creation‚ The people and overall this forms their culture and sovereignty. For them‚ the land is their mother‚ and steeper is their cultural responsibility to take care of it. But the aboriginal people constantly struggled for their land because they were not
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Aboriginal Rights and Freedoms - History Australia The rights and freedoms of indigenous Australians have clearly improved since 1945 and onwards. The numerous improvements in Government Policies both state and federal have lead to a vast advancement in the rights and freedoms of Aborigines. The various examples of Aboriginal activism in Australia have educated the Australian people that they want to be treated equally. Although there are many ways that the rights and freedoms of indigenous Australians
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Aboriginal Charter of Rights Analysis Aboriginal Charter of Rights by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) is a poem about the treatment of the Aboriginal population of Australia. Written in 1962‚ the purpose of this text was to expose the inequality‚ prejudice and suffering faced by the Aborigines under the control of the Australian government and political system. Noonuccal was a strong believer in indigenous rights and this is strongly portrayed in the poem. She uses a critical tone‚ juxtaposition
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