Indigenous language

Australians is a testament to a history of colonisation and its continuation ( Mitchell 2007) policies still push for communities to move from homelands and assimilate to be able to have access to the same health care, education and housing as non-indigenous…

1788, Worgan’s journal takes the form of a letter, addressed to his brother, Richard, covering the early months of European settlement in New South Wales describing his first impressions of the Australian landscape, their initial encounter with Indigenous Australian’s and the European’s suitability to their new lifestyle. The text has a…

Paul Keating and Noel Pearson, both demonstrate the awareness of the long term disadvantages the Indigenous people were confronted with for many years. They speak with passion and enthusiasm of the Australian land and people within it and understand that when it comes to Australians something has to be done in order for there not to have a division between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal Australians. The two speak with intensity regarding this matter and provide insightful knowledge on our country…

of racial superiority of the Europeans and the inevitable dying of the Indigenous Australians. This idea of the Aboriginal people dying out was expressed in the works of Daisy Bates’s book, The passing of The Aborigines (1938). These ideas further cemented the policies of protection and the creation of missions and reserves in order to ‘protect’ Indigenous Australians by moving people to reserves and missions where non-Indigenous authorities and missionaries would ‘smooth the dying pillow’. New…

range of activities that supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’s connection to the land and the sea. This case study will focus on the latent opportunities and challenges faced in the formative stages of learning, respecting and celebrating Indigenous Australian Peoples by developing meaningful relationships; being reflective; recognising difference; and making research relevant. LEARN: Currently, none of my co-workers have any history with NAIDOC, therefore, it is important for us…

churches Christianized the aborigines and assimilate them into mainstream society. The government believed that their responsibility educated the aboriginal children for adopting white lifestyles. They compulsorily disunite the children from their indigenous families and sent them into residential schools. The Schools made many dehumanized actions towards aboriginal people that acts were extremely painful to many of the Canadian First Nations. The inhumane treatment demonstrated in the CBC news,…

Australian indigenous people lived on this land for up to 60,000 years before Europe discovered the country and claimed settlement. The ingenious people lived their own lives, spoke their own language and had their own lifestyle. They believed they belonged to the land. They lived semi nomadic lifestyles traveling seasonally letting their previous land to re-flourish. This all changed in 1788 when the British claimed settlement. Australian indigenous people could no longer live the way they knew…

into missions. The act of dispossession is to forcibly remove an Indigenous person from their land, this is what happened to these children, but not only were they removed from their land, but also their families. This was extremely harmful to the children as although they gained a higher education than many other Indigenous people they missed out on learning about their cultural heritage, which is a fundamental part of Indigenous identity. Claire Henty-Gebert’s social and cultural identities…

Residential schools were a very terrible time in Canada’s history, negatively affecting over 150, 000 young Indigenous people between the ages of 4-16 (Green 2012). At the time the government believed that if they taught the natives their ways, native traditions would diminish as time crept by. Many Indigenous children in this period of time would never have normal lives (Residential school essay 2012). Residential schools are religious government funded schools, in which the main purpose of…

1930’s. This play portrays the inequality between aboriginals and white Australians. Davis displays inequality and racism through language conventions such as emotive language, figurative language and imagery. The Help is a film directed by Taite Taylor and is about a young writer, Skeeter, who interviews African-American women who have…