Indigenous language

the aboriginal people of Australia. The differences between indigenous Australians and non-indigenous Australians are sought out in this essay. It will include existing national strategies, proposition of additional approaches and further suggestions of cultivating better health among the aboriginal people of Australia. The National Strategy for improving health outcomes for Indigenous Australians was initiated with the aim to end Indigenous health inequality. The “Close the Gap” campaign…

Native ways of keeping culture alive must be revitalized, as colonization was detrimental but did not destroy everything. Indigenous relationships with the peopled universe emphasize environmental values and a way of being that holds strong to cultural values. Colonizers desperately tried to erase this deeply rooted culture, but it is hard to erase a link so completely tied to the land. Deeply embedded in each native person’s pedagogy is history, collective trauma, the reverberating effects of…

Comparatively, while Indigenous people are accounted for within the political community, they suffer from being neglected by the state, however, recent developments have manifested progression domestically. In the 1967 referendum, over 90% of Australian voters (consisting of no Aboriginal descent) agreed to change the Australian Constitution to give the federal parliament the power to make laws in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to allow for Aboriginal and Torres…

black images of the mission where the young girl is unable to speak her mother 's language or maintain a connection to her kin and land. This cohesion between the text and illustrations is not found within Look See, Look at Me and The Quinkins as the authors do not understand the complex social issues presented by their illustrators. Thus, it can be seen that creating a picture book that preserves aspects of Indigenous culture must come from authors, illustrators and publishers with the same…

The spiritual lives of indigenous people have long been of interest to outsiders, especially colonial occupiers. Indigenous spirituality, once evaluated as non-conforming to colonial powers’ pre-existing ideas of religion, was used as justification for the subjugation of indigenous peoples and the seizure of their lands. Interactions between the English and the Wampanoag, an indigenous nation whose members inhabit the eastern coast of what is now considered New England, can be categorized in…

1958). As such, connection to the natural environment and to the land by individuals or groups is considered sacred and irrevocable (Fryer-Smith, 2008). The Dreaming is the focus of spirituality for Indigenous Australian people. It dictates the social, moral and religious behaviour and laws that Indigenous Australian people follow through stories of ancestors and beings…

future actions. Value is a very subjective word that can have a scope of interpretations regarding how can it be measured. The application of knowledge acquired in the world, implements value to distinctive Areas of Knowledge such as Ethics and Indigenous Knowledge Systems. There are several possibilities of knowledge application in different AOK, where distinct WOK can play…

non-Indigenous people and face many barriers which impact on their ability to access safe and quality healthcare (Commonwealth of Australia, 2012). Various factors, including age, language and communication, previous experiences, and various social determinants should be considered when establishing a therapeutic relationship (Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council, 2011). As seen in the case study Mrs Akajen is 76 years old and she is multilingual with English being her second language.…

During the years of 1910 to 1970 children of Indigenous or mixed descent were forcefully removed from their communities, families and mothers with the intention of integrating them into white Australian culture, this is now known as “The Stolen Generation(s)” (Kennedy, 2011, p.333). This happened to an estimated one in three to one in ten Indigenous Australian children and then sent to organisations run by churches or government missions (Atkinson, 2005, p.73). This review will discuss the…

an act of cultural genocide because people were not murdered, but the Indigenous culture was. Children who were forced to attend residential schools had their tongues stabbed if they spoke their native language. A residential school survivor says. “ I remember getting my tongue pulled out and pinched if I spoke my native tongue”. This was an act of cultural genocide because children were punished for speaking their native language, consequently, it was gradually removed from society. This is not…