Indigenous Australian languages

Hinduism, this ceremony is the Sacred Thread Ceremony (Upanayana). Although this ritual shares some fundamental values with Australian adulthood, it only somewhat prepares someone for the transition into contemporary Australian adult life. The disregard for gender and caste rights strongly opposes the Australian value of equality, though the ceremony does enforce the Australian value of respect and assists the boy in building his character. The Sacred Thread ceremony (Upanayana) is the first of…

Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system has been the focus of numerous reports, discussions and research projects since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 (Wahlquist, 2016). Revealing unacceptably high Indigenous imprisonment rates, the data is grim, indicating that even though comprising less than 3% of the population, Indigenous people represent almost 33% of the prison population, and over 50% of all young people in detention (Australian…

Domestic violence mitigation programme for Indigenous community To build a domestic violence free Territory, Northern Territory government developed a domestic and family violence reduction strategy “to increase the safety of victims and their children, reduce rates of intergenerational trauma caused by exposure to domestic and family violence, increase accountability of perpetrators and establish integrated service delivery systems that are sustainable and adaptable” (Nothern Territory…

at the history and the present issues faced by the Indigenous Australian Community and how has 2016 Federal election campaign has been able to address the issues of the present. In the year 1770 Lieutenant James Cook first arrived to Australia at the shores of the Botany Bay and proclaimed the area New South Wales or in other words the Eastern shores of Australia part of the British Colony. Upon his arrival Lieutenant Cook was greeted by Indigenous Australia which in Captain Cook’s word were…

to depict Australian culture, landscape and people. Many Australian composers seek to have in his music a synthesis of ideas from the many cultures present in Australia. They also have in common in his music is a search for what it means to be Australian. Even among of those composers, Peter Sculthorpe particularly tends to have strong cross cultural music quotation and musical gestures made in an attempt to capture Australia’s geographical qualities. By borrowing music from indigenous culture,…

Stan Grant. An indigenous journalist who travelled to all the nooks and corners of the world, stands up to talk about the Australian dream which was built on racism and discrimination of their people.In the article, I saw a man of Australia arguing strongly that the Australian dream is not for all. He upholds his stand by stating the obvious racism and discrimination toward the aboriginal people of Australia. A group of ethnically diverse people who were eliminated and isolated by people of…

Over the last two hundred years, the indigenous people of Canada have struggled to maintain their sovereignty rights and their cultural identity. In this paper I shall assess Aboriginal sovereignty rights and freedoms in the post-confederation era of Canada and Canada in the modern day. By assessing…

Continuity of caribou harvests is critical for Northern peoples. Kendrick (2003:196) states that: Rangifer (caribou and reindeer) continue to be the most important terrestrial subsistence resource for northern Aboriginal peoples. Traditional caribou-hunting communities in the Canadian North are bound in their relationship to caribou to many other circumpolar societies, including more than two dozen aboriginal cultural groups in Eurasia and North America The Denesųłiné emphasis on caribou is not…

of Australia, the basic rights of indigenous Australian, including the land rights were despised, or even violated, by British settlements in many ways. Although the government’s policies have started to change from 1960s in order to protect human rights of indigenous people, the questions of reconciliation between them and Australian government have not been solved by now. In this essay, I will clarify Australia’s effort to make the reconciliation with indigenous citizens in last several…

these systems have been founded upon the misery of Aboriginal peoples. Correspondingly, colonialism intricacies combined with eugenic principles continue to be used to legitimize colonial say in Indigenous women’s sexual and reproductive matters,…