Australian Open

Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Background of the study In 1788, about 1530 British people arrived at Australia as penal transportation, and for the next 80 years, about 16 million people moved into Australia and established penal colony. The following paragraph indicates what happened in Australia as a first step of a colonial domination. The rabbits are the British, who came there with purpose of establishing a new penal colony to supplant the America. Actually, there were Aborigines inhabiting…

In chapter nine of The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada, Lisa Monchalin discusses the violence specifically affecting Indigenous women. In examining this, she brings to light how past colonialism lead to the sexualization and subjugation of Indigenous women which ultimately results in the violence committed against them presently. In traditional Indigenous societies, there is usually fair treatment between men and women. Monchalin states that in many…

Documents 9.2 and 9.3 in Keith Smith’s Stranger Things are both accounts which describe the federal government’s experiment to relocate Inuit from northern Quebec to Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord in the northern Arctic in 1953. However, while both sources recount the government’s experiment the narratives have different perspectives highlighting how people remember events in different ways depending on how they were affected by the outcome. Document 9.2 is a testimony given by Markoosie Patsauq…

As gracefully spoken by Anishnaabeg scholar Gerald Vizenor, “there isn’t any centre to the world but a story” (32). However, storytelling isn’t an analytical framework that is popularly used; Due to systemically-ingrained tropes of European colonization that have shaped the modern landscape both physically and ideologically, any use of academic alternatives by the colonized is consequently erased. Nonetheless, Indigenous scholars have been reasserting their intellectual autonomy through…

Identity determines the qualities and beliefs that distinguish or identify a person or thing. Going back into Canadian history, the children of the Indigenous community were taken from their families and placed in residential schools where they were forced to follow Christian traditions, forbidden to practice their own. As years went by, the Indigenous children adapted to the culture of the ‘white man’ country, forgetting where they came from and leaving their roots behind. Joseph Boyden uses…

animals in nature. During the period of 1930 and 1970, social Darwinist theories played a major role in negatively impacting the lives of Aborigines in Australia to a great extent. They used the social Darwinist theories as an excuse for the white Australians to apply Darwinist theories like 'survival of the fittest' and 'white superiority' and the overall ill-treatment of the Aborigines. They believed that because of their primitive lifestyle and culture they should be segregated so it was…

overturned the Terra Nullius fiction in 1982. (b) Protective legislation Victoria enacted Aboriginal protection act. This act were being achieved in Britain and the Australian colonies. However , for Aborigines , this act gave more controls over Aboriginal people's lifestyle. (c) the Australian Aborigines League 1933 The Australian Aboriginies league was founded in Melbourne…

Summary There is a cultural divide in Canada and in the rest of the Western World between Indigenous students and Western students. Students in multiple countries experience science through out their years in school and evidence has shown that less Indigenous students are participating in science classes and post - secondary programs that involve Science and Technology. Statistics show in the U.S. of the 3.4 million working scientists and engineers only about 10,000 (0.3%) were Aboriginal…

Since the emergence of Anthropology as a discipline, there have been many concerns about the ethics and morality of multiple anthropological studies. Are they necessary to uncover new information? Is the interest of the participant being considered? Are the procedures even safe? The most important answer to these questions is to ensure that each anthropologist engaging in experiments and fieldwork considers the safety and well-being of every individual involved through Review Ethics Boards.…

In the 1880s, the Government of Canada began to establish the Indian Residential School (IRS) system. This was the government’s bid to provide education according to treaty promises. The IRS progressed slowly at the beginning. However, under the Indian Act of in 1920, it became mandatory for every Indian child to attend a residential school and made it illegal for them to attend any other educational institution. Authorities would frequently take children to schools far from their home…