Change The Game By The Collie Crew Analysis

It is definitely important to remember Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ histories because it helps us understand the hardships they faced as a culture and it can further help us recognise how we can close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people share four main world views; culture, land, place and country and relationships. The world view, relationships, is conveyed many times in each of the literary texts by relating back to certain events that Aboriginal elders faced. Three texts that clearly represent the world view relationships are,; Change the Game, by the Colli Crew; Treaty, by Yothu Yindi and Took the Children Away, by Archie Roach.
The Colli Crew’s song, Change the Game, is about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people- mostly describing the people of the past; in the text, it states that they are singing from north Queensland near the border. The world view relationships is conveyed in …show more content…
There are multiple quotes in this text that convey the world view relationships, but the one that strongly relates to the world view was, “My mother cried go get their dad, he came running, fighting mad. Mother’s tears were falling down. He said ‘You touch my kids you go through me.’” (Lines 29-30) Not only does this quote create an emotional response from the reader, but it explains in detail the events of the Stolen Generation. This quote shows the chosen world view as it talks of the relationship between children and their parents, it also shows the importance of relationships as it represents the distraught feelings shared between both parents and children. Altogether, this song displays a clear message of the world view relationships through the explanation of the heartbreaking events of the Stolen Generation and the example of a family being