Australian photographers

Culture of the NorthWest Coast The NorthWest Coast tribes, were excellent carvers and weavers. They created beautiful masks, totems, and other forms of artistic representations. These art forms were used to describe their cultural beliefs, and rank among their tribe members. NorthWest Coast tribes religion and culture are represented through the use of totems and masks. Their culture revolves around Animism, or the belief that animals and natural objects. Natural Phenomena is also included…

done by focussing on revealing the truth and removing negative myths. I will teach children that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the First Australians and the First Fleet did not discover Australia (Harrison & Sellwood, 2016). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture should be integrated in all learning areas of the Australian Curriculum because it is the culture of Country. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have an intimate relationship with the land, sky and…

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were the first inhabitants of Australia. It is believed that the Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for the past 50,000 to 120,000 years ago. The Aboriginal people were semi nomadic and lived off natural resources. They lived in groups or families and lived under their kinship system. Their kinship system defined who they were as an individual and who they were as a group. The system told them how to act and behave and the responsibilities they…

I will be giving a brief summary of Curve lake first nation; Curve Lake First Nation people are the Mississaugas of the great Anishnaabeg nation. The traditional language spoken by the Anishnaabeg was Anishinaabemowin. The name Anishnaabeg a name made from two parts. The first part of anishaw, which means “spontaneous”. The second part inauawese, which means “human-body”. This together translates to mean “spontaneous man”. The Anishnaabeg did not use a written alphabet. All teaching was done…

not easy to be classed as a true Australian hero. Our nation admires people who are selflessness and put others above themselves. Demonstrate great bravery and are yet humble we also respect people who stand up for what they believe in even though this might not be popular sentiment at the time. We are inspired by exceptional talent and by people who are the best at what they can do and in doing these things demonstrate to the world their pride in being an Australian. The person I am going to…

the structure of those economic resources and whether the ecosystem possesses the appropriate food attributes.” To survive in these ecosystem, hunter-gathers are commonly the most successful in utilizing the resources available in rainforests. Australian Aborigines were indeed hunter-gathers. During the wet season, the Aborigines lived off nuts and fruits. At the end of the wet season, the availability of resources in rainforest will fully utilize. Aborigines feasted on rats, snakes, crocodiles…

Purpose: The purpose of this briefing note is to present options and recommendations to prevent the increasing rate of Aboriginal deaths in police custody. Baker and Cussen’s (2015) deaths in custody analysis, illustrates an increase in Aboriginal deaths in police custody; specifically in Western Australia and Queensland. In the last six months, this has been confirmed by media reports on New South Wales experiencing their first Aboriginal death in custody in 16 years (Gerthing, 2016). The main…

Dreams is one from a series of Thompson's works titled We Bury Our Own in which he created in response to the Australian colonial archive collection held by the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England. The museum holds a collection of ethnographic photographs of Indigenous Australians made during Australia’s early colonial period. Thompson’s research coincided with a project initiated by the Australian Research Council to research and…

AVATAR brings to view many different belief philosophies and customs which have also been observed within the Aboriginal and Jain spiritualities. Practices of beliefs such as animism by the na'vi and use of elders are aspects which are very much prevalent in the Aboriginal spirituality. The na’vi mindset of avoiding all unnecessary violence and general life conduct also follow closely to the jain beliefs of ahimsa and the Five Principles of Jainism. These parallels between the na’vi belief…

The United Nations defined the term genocide in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was released in 1948. The statement said that: Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring…