Indigenous peoples of Africa

have lasted for time immemorial. Without these cultures Australia would be a colourless and bland place to live. The indigenous people of these lands have contributed immensely to the image of an Australian however, rarely have they been acknowledge for harbouring such a rich culture. Indigenous spiritualties and the culture which accompanies it has a strong relationship…

Suicide is an increasingly pressing issue in Aboriginal communities in Canada. Along with self-harm, they a are the leading causes of death for Aboriginal people up to 44 years of age (Source, 9999). From 1999 to 2003, the suicide rate in Inuit regions across Canada averaged 135/100,000, over 10 times the national rate (Government of Canada, 2006). According to a 2008-2010 survey, 22% of First Nations adults report suicide ideation at some point in their lifetime compared to 9% of adults in the…

discrimination against indigenous groups is an ongoing problem in Brisbane, especially in the form of land ownership and rights. In his 2005 speech on the current challenges faced by Indigenous Australians, former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma acknowledged that Indigenous Australians hold distinctive rights as the original peoples of the land of which include “The right to land, which provides the spiritual and cultural basis of Indigenous…

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 genocide and colonization, and yet Native peoples are resilient, proving…

In the article, “The Benefits of Cultural ‘Sharing’ Are Usually One-Sided," Adrienne Keene (2015) brings up a valid question, “Who has the right to represent an Indigenous community? Outsiders, or the community themselves?” The link to the article is as follows http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/08/04/whose-culture-is-it-anyhow/the-benefits-of-cultural-sharing-are-usually-one-sided. Through out history, there are many examples of cultural appropriation. As well as, examples of the…

The oldest living culture history in the world is the Australian culture. There are many ways to saw Aboriginal culture through art, music, and carmines. In Australia, indigenous groups keep their way of life culture alive by passing their insight, craftsmanship, ceremonies from one generation to another. Moreover, aboriginal people also trying to safe their languages, protecting their culture. In many stories of the dreaming, the Ancestor Spirits came to the earth in human structure and as…

Stage 1 English – Intertextuality unit Indigenous people of Australia, the original custodians of the land expressed their culture, even after the British settlement. Mockery of their beliefs only reinforced who the people were and the purpose they held in Australia. New generations, however, began to speak out on behalf of their people, in order to ignite thinking and to right the wrongs in the only possible way they could. The Australian anthem was written by Peter Dodds McCormick, for many,…

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…

57 states, “We call upon federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments to provide education to public servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of…

according to the Indians, “That guy’s just a phony. How could anybody turn into something else? Huh? I don’t think I could turn into a white man if I tried all my life. They wouldn 't let me, so how does that German think he can be an Indian. White people think they can do anything - turn into Chinese or Indian - they 're crazy” (Warrior 174). Most of the Natives did not like Helmut and wish that he would just disappear from their community. Helmut has written a book called Indian Medicine, A…