Indigenous peoples of Oceania

Over-representation of Indigenous children within the Canadian child welfare system CURRENT SITUATION: There continues to be a high over-representation of Indigenous children within the Canadian child welfare system. According to Statistics Canada, approximately 7% of the Canadian population consists of Aboriginal children. (StatCan, 2011.) However, Aboriginal children represented almost half of the population within the child welfare system at 48% (StatCan, 2011.) The population of Indigenous…

that this recipe was not written by a Canadian Indigenous person, as Indian is not their true identity. It makes one wonder, where the foods one eats comes from, as this is not something consumers think about when in the market. This is in addition to the acts of colonization that lurk on Canadian land, and was vividly taking place around the publication of the Indian Bread recipe. Was this recipe, then, a form of appreciating the breads of the Indigenous communities that helped sustain the…

Still dealing with ass program. Color grading indigenous. Colin jones. Auber Neville. Solve Aboriginal problem, breeding out. Suicide rate? P1: Control over indigenous community The plan of assimilating all indigenous people into white society Light colored children were removed from their families for the sake of breeding out the indigenous people. P2: Identify single identity The spread of the colonists menat they were living closer to indigenous populations which meant half cast babies.…

activities that supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’s connection to the land and the sea. This case study will focus on the latent opportunities and challenges faced in the formative stages of learning, respecting and celebrating Indigenous Australian Peoples by developing meaningful relationships; being reflective; recognising difference; and making research relevant. LEARN: Currently, none of my co-workers have any history with NAIDOC, therefore, it is important for us to…

Torres Strait people, known as Indigenous people of Australia. Different factors responsible for chronic illnesses in Indigenous population will be explained and how nurses can help in conquering the gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous population in relation to health. Emphasis will be on how ethnocentric human nature can affect health adversely. It will also discuss how sexual health is neglected in Indigenous population and how by good communication skills nurses can make Indigenous…

Participants expressed a wide range of concerns including unfounded detention, detention without the detainee understanding the reasons for detention, loss of personal reputation, lack of proof and therefore injustices, and the suggestion that people may be exposed to police brutality. The overwhelming majority of respondents believed this law gave police too much power and 78% of respondents would be personally concerned if the equivalent law were introduced into South Australia. The survey…

the goal of assimilation. The general public was not accepting of Indigenous people in their society and Indigenous people, even children, were resistant to abandoning their culture. While removals stopped by the early 1970s, it was not until the 1980s that policy changes were made and there was a reappraisal on how to handle both issues of assimilation and child welfare (Sorry Day and The Stolen Generations, 2015). The report further detailed instances of abuse post-removal. Many boys were…

depicts a coming of age story of a fifteen-year-old narrator named Rosie and her inner conflicts in regards to where her loyalties stand. The prime script of this novel centres around the once inseparable friendship that existed between Rosie a non-Indigenous teenager and her childhood friendship with an Aboriginal girl named Nona, which becomes strained due to the political and cultural issues within this Northern Territory community. This novel is a powerful exploration of the dilemmas faced…

There are two primary views of indigenous people by outsiders. One is that they are lazy, that the injustices they faced in the past are so long gone that any negative circumstances they face are brought about by internal as opposed to external factors. The second view, the noble savage view is nearly opposite in intention, but similarly problematic. It holds indigenous people in high regard but fails to see them as contemporary people in a modern world. Instead, they are seen as a part of…

Riots” in South Africa. Throughout the course of history, colonialism has often been depicted as violence on the innocents by an aggressor, all in all a very one sided series of violent oppressive acts by the colonial power upon a weaker subjugate indigenous group. However, with colonialism in India, South Africa, and the United States, the common theme was violent conviction in your beliefs, in which the colonial power’s role as giver or receiver of the violence varied with the situation.…