Oppression Of Indigenous Aboriginals

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Ever wonder how it feels when you are living peacefully when one day overdressed strangers who looks like they came from another planet just invades in, taking your home as their own?
Ever wonder how it feels to be oppressed, segregated, victimized to colonization, cruelty, violence, malnourishment, slavery and withheld from your own rights and freedom as others perceived you and your kind to be inferior to them?
Ever wonder how it feels when your peaceful world is suddenly shaken as everything you have ever known, lived and heard of is suddenly slipping right of your hand, like sand grains falling from within your fingers as you see these strange people take away everything you have ever owned and loved?
Ever wonder how it feels to have all your independence, pride, self-worth and dignity stripped away from you as you become forced to become slaves of these newcomers?
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And it all began with the European invasion in 1700 led by Captain Cook.
The invasion into Australia in 1700 completely changed the lives of the Indigenous Aboriginals, obstructing with the traditional, cultural and ancient lifestyle that the Indigenous Aboriginals had led for over 1000 years. Gone were the life led by peace and independence and began the horrible period in their history in which oppression and injustice ruled over their

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