Australian Aborigines

Grenville’s The Secret River resembles a form of historical interpretation that fictionalizes a point in history that is fraught with grief and indignation. The text exemplifies the different types of people of colonial Australia and their views towards the Indigenous people. By understanding the limitations history allows in exploring these views, Grenville was compelled to form her own interpretation of the past resulting in a fictional history of Australia. By undertaking this type of fiction…

You know, there’s so much that you can talk about in this world – trust me, I get told that I talk way too much and yet speak such little. But there’s one thing I really find interesting, and that would be journeys. They’re an ongoing paradigm that really makes you wonder about what sort of world we live in – they constantly challenge the whole ideals and quirks that we know about not just only ourselves, but also the world around us. Take Peter Goldsworthy’s book Maestro for example, it’s…

The Whitlam Government implemented a large number of reforms in the 1071 days it held office between December 5, 1972 and November 11, 1975 . Gough Whitlam changed Australia indefinitely not only through its laws and establishments, but by the way it was viewed by other countries and by itself. During the reign of the Gough Whitlam government, more bills were passed in its first year than any other federal government had passed in a single year with a total of 203 bills passed (e.g. the Trade…

where they were assimilated into the ‘white society’ and sent to mission stations (Clay, 2002). These horrendous events left a legacy of families in ordeal, which continues to affect Indigenous Australian communities. This essentially led to an uprising in mental health disorders amongst Indigenous Australians, such as depression initiating…

In 1867, Confederation was held in the new country of Canada that only reached from Atlantic to the Great Lakes. The territory of Manitoba, which was called the West of Ontario back then. It was split between Europeans and the First Nations. This all happened because of the Métis population and the Hudson's Bay Company. Métis are ancient people of mixed Indigenous and Europeans. In the beginning of 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company started to control the territory of Rupert's Land, which is…

The New Life of Aboriginal Children Aboriginal children can not forget what happened in the past. In the 1870s, above 150 000 aboriginal children took from their parents to attend Canada’s Indian Residential Schools to learn them the culture of European and learn them reading, writing, and math (CBC News,2010, p.49). Unfortunately, aboriginal parents have not choice, even if they want to send their children to school or not (CBC News,2010, p.49). Because of Indian agents who make sure…

Socio-Economic Status (SES) and healthy physical and mental wellbeing. The institutional discrimination due to past government policies for Indigenous Australians resulted in generations of uneducated, or partly educated, Indigenous people (Lowe & Yunkaporta, 2013). Educational policymakers should learn from the past educational experiences of Indigenous Australians and implement developed policies to overcome the poor performance of Indigenous students (Bonney, 2018a; Partington, Beresford &…

Why did The Federal Government want Aboriginal Peoples to sign treaties? The Canadian Federal Government wanted the Aboriginals to sign the treaties to avoid wars with them. They had also wanted to get them signed by the aboriginals to get ownership over the lands. That is why the Federal government wanted the Aboriginal Peoples to sign the treaty to take their lands and have power and control over the lands giving the First Nations People only some lands (reserves) to have bands live on…

Aboriginal pedagogies are an important tool that plays a crucial part in all students learning, within Australia. There is a significant difference in schooling achievement between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous students, which can largely be attributed to teaching strategies that are not consistent with Aboriginal cultures, attitudes and learning styles (Kerwin, 2010). Including Aboriginal pedagogies within the learning environment provides a culturally inclusive classroom where educators can…

From 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were taken from their biological families, because of government policies. The traumatic experience of the children from that generation continues to have an impact on Indigenous communities, families and individuals. These children are known as the Stolen Generation. The Stolen Generation had been seized from their biological families, and wrongly told that their parents had either abandoned them or died. The children were never told about who their real…