Indigenous peoples of Oceania

for land and resources between the settlers and Aboriginals. The native peoples of the west became “obstacles of the newcomers” (Miller, J. 2006). In the face of brewing conflict, Sir, John A. Macdonald began to view the natives as nusances to the nation and made attendance of these“industrial schools” mandatory. Most people at the time “interpreted the socio-cultural differences between themselves and the Aboriginal peoples as proof that Canada’s first inhabitants were ignorant, savage,…

Indigenous education across Australia has been gradually improving as we become more aware; however it is still drastically behind the standards of non-indigenous students. Therefore it is our responsibility as teachers to become aware of continual issues that have arisen and address them to enable progress. We must examine the ways in which we can Engage and encourage learning within our English classrooms. Before we begin I must tell you my personal experiences and explain why this is an…

unemployment and not having English as a first language, all common characteristics of Indigenous rural and remote populations (Jamieson et al., 2011, Parker et al., 2012). Ethnicity or race is also significant in the oral health of Indigenous children and young people. Research on racism globally indicates that experiences of racism negatively affect health and well-being, but further research is needed within the Indigenous Australian context (Paradies, 2007), especially with oral health…

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…

Born and raised on the City of Gold Coast I had little understanding of the ways of Aboriginal people. I didn’t come in contact with many indigenous while growing up. There may have been one or two Torres strait islanders in my class but I never really paid much attention to where they came from I just treated them like other class mates. This didn’t help me broaden my knowledge of their culture, as we never discussed it. During primary school we learnt some of the Dream Time stories and the…

The role of social determinants in Australia The role a focused approach on social determinants would have on improving health care provided is would be to decrease unnecessary mortality, suffering and to enable all people to have access to care this is even a factor in Australia. Although Australia has in the past had a high level of health care available to all populations rises, increases in the cost of living and even a competition to retain doctors in rural Australia have all taken a toll.…

complexities of providing culturally competent Aboriginal health, physiotherapy and rehabilitation care within the Australian primary health care system. Non-Indigenous health care professionals cannot truly understand the true complexity of the past impacts of colonialism, the political process and the community’s prejudice effects on the Indigenous health status. This report intends to inspire health care professionals to understand the development of cultural competency standards by health…

reason why British occupied Australia is they needed more land. The a growing urban underclass in its city, loss of the American colonies and British wanted to relieve the pressure on its prison, so British occupy Australia and carry thousands of people there. Soon there was filled with Britain convicted, colonial administrators and military police in New South Wales. They brought and spread disease in Australia, smallpox is one of the example. Smallpox spread terribly and decimated a lot of…

participate fully in the dominant society but still maintain their cultural differences. American democracy and its ideals encourage pluralism in that it allows people to express their cultures, beliefs and norms fully without interference as long as they conform with human rights. Assimilating plays a role here in that individual people can express their individual and dynamic cultures while still they follow the dominant culture of the country as a…

Indigenous people have their own ways of seeing, being, doing, and knowing in this world. According to Richard Spearman, “Kendaaswin is the Anishinaabe way of developing and disseminating knowledge” (Spearman, 2016). Anishnabe people have theorized that the two aspects of reality are physicality and spirituality. In Anishnabe knowledge there are seven aspects: spirit memory, original instructions, acquired knowledge, traditional knowledge, revealed knowledge, mother earth knowledge, and…