Indigenous language

Simpson’s style of writing and use of Indigenous words are ways in which we see her resist colonialist storytelling conventions. Leanne Simpson deconstructs colonial space by creating a book that is both familiar and accessible to members of and beyond her community. The absence of capital letters and her use of the Nishinaabemowin language, throughout her work, are examples of this resistance to the standard. Ultimately, the use of language is a method to connect with Anishinaabe culture.…

Elders’ Teachings in the Twenty-first Century: A Personal Reflection-Summary For centuries, Indigenous knowledge has been passed down by means of oral communication. Several economical and political forces have inconvenienced the traditional practices of Indigenous people. In the article Elders’ Teachings in the Twenty-first Century: A Personal Reflection by Marlene Brant Castellano she explains these oral teachings and who instructs them, how these teachings are interpreted and applied to…

When indigenous youth see their stories, history and traditions ignored, they feel that they are not important in the Canadian fabric. The school system needs to begin to understand the damage they are causing Indigenous children and be willing to change the curriculum to reflect the stories of colonization and its impacts on Aboriginal peoples. Reconciliation needs to be addressed among educators of primary school and they must share the information of the federal and Provincial’s governments…

Health disadvantages experienced by Indigenous Australians are considered to be historical in origin, but the endurance of the disadvantages can be put down to the modern structural and social factors, embodied in what have being termed the ‘social determinants of health’. Indigenous Australians experiences a greater rate of health problems and worse health outcomes then the non-Indigenous community. For non-Indigenous Australians the important social determinants of health are feeling safe,…

everyone, similarly that was happened with Indigenous peoples when the European colonizers deliberately and forcefully separated Indigenous children from their parents to take the savage out from them and to transform them into civilized individuals, completely negating their cultural influence on them . Residential schools were the product of the hidden cultural bias of the Western educational system, and this bias was exposed when approximately 100,000 Indigenous children in Canada, from 1860…

The aim of embedding indigenous perspectives in education is to embrace Australia’s First Nation, their culture, identity, and their dreamtime stories into Australian mainstream schooling. Aunty Tina Quitadamo (cited in Beresford et al. 2003, p. 149) comments ” similar to our dreaming, I see quality education as an evolving, holistic, spiritual and educative process providing meaningful opportunities for personal growth”. For the past 200 years Australian education formulated post-colonial…

lots of policy relating to removal of children had been created and impacted on the Australian native people and their society over time. Even until now in 2016, some of the scars still cannot recover, such as loss of cultural identity, loss of language, extinction of tribes and clans and the “Stolen Generation”. These policies include the protectionism policy, the assimilation policy and the integration policy. Protectionism was the earliest unequal policy that settlers used on Aboriginals.…

Indigenous Australians are grossly over-represented in the criminal justice system. However, the true extent of this over-representation differs between individual areas. Despite indigenous Australians only making up two per cent of the population, they accounted for over twenty seven per cent of the total prison population in 2014 (ABS). This high rate of imprisonment is not due to indigenous people being more likely to commit crime than other Australians, but rather indigenous Australians are…

nations including Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Each of these population groups brings their own cultural and linguistic attributes to Australia. Also included in the broad sense of Culturally and Linguistic Diverse communities are Indigenous peoples and those with a disability. Culture is the beliefs, values, knowledge and…

people grasp the concept of Indigenous Australian peoples’ inextricable ‘connection’ with the Country. Opposing perspectives regarding the Australian Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) relationship to Country are offered by the author of Purple Threads, Jeanine Leane and Gary Crew, author of Strange Objects. Crew’s representation through the perspective of Wouter Loos’ journal and Steven Messenger includes deliberate literary devices such as characterisation, figurative language and sentence…