Australian photographers

Ford 1 Raeya Ford Miss. Fleming NBE 3U1 21, November, 2017 Unhealthy Medicine Wheels In Motorcycles & Sweetgrass Medicine Wheels are a very important idea to Indigenous people throughout Canada, they can represent many things such as east, south, west, and north, or infant, youth, adult, and elder. The Indigenous people tried very hard to keep each section in balance because they believed that if they were to become unbalanced than that person was no longer healthy. In the novel…

In Obasan, Joy Kogawa highlights the emotional trauma that came with the decision by the Canadian government under Prime Minister Mackenzie King to intern immigrants of Japanese ancestry, even if they held Canadian citizenship. Kogawa is able to convey her points with the usage of flashbacks to the period between 1941 and 1949, when the interment took place while the main setting of the story takes place in 1972. Therefore, the fact that the main storyline takes place in 1972 and the book’s 1981…

psychiatric issues. These traumas such as ‘war, mass killings, torture, rape and dispossession’, may not be recognised which could create negative pressure towards the individual (Puviman). The negative impacts on the families are in the children with the Australian government…

Thancoupie World: Thancoupie is an Indigenous Australian artist with a strong Thanaquith background. Born in the late 1930’s the world in which she spent her childhood was rich in traditional customs. One of these customs was to use clay for ceremonial purposes. When Thancoupie was a young girl she knew that clay was sacred, Thancoupie said that where she grew up, ‘The men used to keep the clay in a special storehouse and we kids were not allowed to touch it’. The artist goes by her totemic name…

Canadian aboriginals have experienced an increase in racial discrimination as racial tensions have become amplified in Canada from the persisting effects of the relocation of the indigenous people in 1953. This paper will explore the lasting effects of forced relocation the indigenous people in regards to the Blauner Hypothesis and the deconstruction of the productive family unit. More then 40% of indigenous people are unemployed and experience much higher rates of suicide, alcoholism, and drug…

“Barbekueria” by Don Featherstone are very similar in the way they portrayed racism during the early developments of Australia. Through different Camera techniques and imagery both Featherstone and Perkins are able to project the ideals of the White Australian Policy into a Film/Documentary. The used of different Camera angles (by both producers) are seen in the film to speak for the insignificance of one race compared to the other. “One night the Moon” used different colour patterns and camera…

this conference – how have Aboriginal people been treated since 1900? The treatment of Indigenous Australians by the government has been an issue of controversy since the settlement of the White Europeans in the 1700’s. Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders are being continually misrecognized, mistreated and continually being forced to do things unwillingly. Since the 1900’s Aboriginal Australians have tried to make an effort to protest for equality, and establish laws and rights, with one…

Maria Campbell’s Stories of the Road Allowance People provides the audience with engaging stories while providing insight into the histories of the Indigenous peoples. This book is more than just a history book or an entertainment piece, it draws the reader into the life and culture of those whose stories it shares. By providing the reader with exquisite art to accompany the stories, Campbell is able to give the reader as full of an experience of First Nations and Metis culture that a book…

Thursday Island, a small island in the Torres Strait is located 2,640km north west of Brisbane, 804km north of Cairns, 141km south west of Papua New Guinea, 35km north west of Cape York. Its area is about 4.5 square km and is legally part of Queensland. Locally known as “TI”, or the Torres Strait Islander name is Waiben, means ‘dry place’ due to the geological of the island it has lack of fresh water; island gets its water supply from a dam in Horn Island. TI has a tropical humidity and has two…

Canada is well known for its multicultural population and acceptance of all religions, races, and traditions, but it wasn’t always this way. Canada has a gruesome history of racism and violence that many people like to disregard. It took a long time to make our Country this way, and our history evokes striking interest to some. Preconception is still very much alive in modern Canada, but how did it start? And why? History of racism dates back as far as Canada’s very first settlement. Feud…