Indigenous language

has outlined that mental health of indigenous Australians could be added as an objective to closing the gap program. This can reduce early deaths and improve well being of Indigenous Australians. Professor, Pat Dudgeon, The Commission member, and chairwoman of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association “believes that, indigenous mental health issue has been ignored particularly. There has been a gap in Indigenous mental health compared to non-Indigenous mental health. It has been…

According to King et al. (2009), Indigenous social inequalities resulted from a combination of classic socioeconomic and alienation as well as Indigenous-specific factors related to colonization, globalization, migration, loss of language and culture, and disconnection from the land leading to the health inequalities of Indigenous peoples. Language serves not only as a means of communicating but for preserving cultural identity thus chronicling all that happened in the past, present and the…

The deposition of indigenous peoples across the globe through colonisation has informed interactions between indigenous and non-indigenous for centuries. Colonisation occurred for varying reasons from nation to nation and person to person however the outcome for the Indigenous people were similar in many ways. This essay will attempt to explain some of the reasons for colonisation occurring and the effect this had on the Indigenous people. Research shows that colonisation impacted both…

are connected to one another. Australia, with its Aboriginal heritage and the past of being a part of Britain and is now labelled as multicultural, may have suffered from an identity crisis. Hence, by examining the myth of Terra Nullius and the Indigenous’ continuing struggles for land right recognition, this…

all historical mistakes by past governments and policies (Creative Spirits, 2017). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were living happily on the land before 1788 and an Acknowledgement of Country ceremony demonstrates respect for all Indigenous people, Elders, past and present. Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children involves…

Anglo-Saxons have only been present in Australia for a few hundred years, our Indigenous people have inhabited this land for as many as 65 000 years. In Australia there has been a devastating loss of Indigenous heritage with their languages, beliefs and customs often being forgotten. This is a result of a cultural identity that wasn’t values and therefore not protected by conservation policies. As a result many indigenous people feel like there is a missing link to their ancestral roots, to…

he genuinely cared for all of the people of Australia. However, the way that he executed his ideas for improvement was not of the better of the people he supposedly cared about. He was unfortunately oblivious to the harm he was inflicting on the Indigenous people of his country. He and his fellow Europeans were not the first to claim the land in Australia, so conflicts quickly arose when the new settlers had arrived. The European settlers had interrupted the lifestyles of the Aborigines and…

the reader continuous to read, the mystery begins to unravel itself. Ultimately, the poem speaks optimistically of hope of a brighter and fairer future for coming generations of Aboriginals, after several years of racial tension between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. This message is obvious through lines such as “Points the bone no longer at a darker race, / Now brood no more”, and “Nor colour shame…

The Mabo Case was a decision made by the High Court on whether Australia was terra nullius (empty land – or land that belongs to nobody) as the British declared when they settled here, or whether it did/does in actual fact belong to the indigenous peoples. The High Court decided that terra nullius should not be applied to Australia, which was yet another huge turning point for the ATSI people as it recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and acknowledged their unique connection…

travel log with the introduction of culture: a dynamic and complex system that characterizes societies and from it flows people’s identity. As Davis immerses the reader into a series of indigenous people groups around the world, we are exposed to the DNA of these societies. Despite the diversity of lifestyles and languages, an evident ebb and flow threads these varying people groups together, creating the overarching themes of the book. Through a society’s culture, power, decomposition, and…