Indigenous peoples of Oceania

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    He has fear that indigenous suicides are treated in a different manor than other public health issues. We can infer that the Canadian government does not seem to be to alarmed at the rate at which the Inuits are committing suicide at. According to Obed Inuit suicide rates…

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    discovering if Australia can still be nicknamed the “Land of Tomorrow” for people seeking to get the refugee status and, on the other hand, at studying the concept of nationalism in Australia. The annexed questions that could come out of this principal research question will inquire into the goals of major political parties to become engaged in a race about how best to shut down Australia as a place of refuge for people who take to the sea. Consequently, the secondary questions are composed as…

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    As referred above the masks of the Middle Sepik River come out in a variety of forms each embellished with different designs and materials. Luckily, I have provided two rather diverse masks from this region which include: A Dance Mask with Bird totem from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and a Gra from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With these objects, I hope to provide readers with a broad overlook on the different characteristics these masks may or may not share with each other. We will first…

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    later amalgamated with The Australian National University, selected its first understudies. Canberra University College was created with a free relationship with the University of Melbourne. From late 1944 to 1945, exchanges in the midst of sharp people and chairmen, including H C "Piece" Coombs, Alfred Conlon, and Roy Douglas "Pansy" Wright set the scene for the foundation of a National University.…

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    Native Amazon tribal people want to continue to raise their families and live off of the land. The Amazonians have lived in the rainforests for over twelve thousand years peacefully. While living…

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    of various groups from around the world. These ethnic influences have been documented since the 1400s when Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain and came across the indigenous people of America. America was settled by the Spanish and the British with such settlements as Jamestown and Plymouth in the 1600s. When these various people of Spain and Britain settled America, they brought many different cultural influences, such as religious beliefs, family traditions and food. In the 1800s there was…

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    Inuit and Haida There are many different tribes in the world. Two specific tribes are the Inuit and Haida. Do you realize how similar the Inuit and Haida are, but at the same time how different they are? They’re similar and different in every category, but I really want to focus on clothing and food. Then, I want to recap some more universals. To begin, the Inuit and Haida have many things in common and unalike in the category clothing. One similar thing is that no women in either…

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    In the Australian Model, author Tim Southommasane touches upon the idea of multiculturism in Australia. The reading starts out with Southommasane describing fond memories of his home town, Carbramatta, a suburb of Sydney which at one point served as the nation’s drug capitol. Southommasane relates a sense of pride of having grown up in a town that represents such a cultural melting pot. The Cabramatta freedom gate currently bears a number of incriptions, all in English, Chinese,…

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    Introduction “We all have indigenous blood. From different nations, yes, but it is right there, with you. We all want to honor our ancestors, but there are some do not know who they are. Find the origin of your indigenous blood; help to keep alive your inheritance. This is my advice to you; do not help us; help your blood. If we all help our own Nation, wounds will heal sooner. We are creating healing for the people that are here. Not just the Ohlone Nation, but all people that exist on this…

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    Residential schooling was 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…

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