Indigenous peoples of Oceania

Dispossession refers to the Aboriginal people being forced from their land and traditional way of life as a result of government policies such as “Protection and Assimilation”. Aboriginal spirituality is a culture and a way of life, so this separation of Aboriginal people from their land and kinship groups has had a severely detrimental impact on their spirituality, and subsequently their culture and identity. A quote by Noel Pearson in the book Voices of Aboriginal Australia: past, present,…

Historians use different formats to describe events in history. Some historians use videos to portray certain events while others use books to put their thoughts and opinions out to readers. In Custer on Canvas: Representing Indians, Memory and Violence in the New West by Norman K. Denzin, Denzin uses performance ethnography to tell the story of the events surrounding Custer’s Last Stand. Using this format was very ingenuous as it showed the many different sides to Custer’s battle. Presenting…

economy from the reserve and poor healthcare and education. “Although conditions of extreme poverty, poor health, insufficient housing, and impoverished social and health services still exist in many reserves…” (Mccue) Due to their poor lifestyle many people suffer within the reserve. The reserves are a product of past discrimination and neglect. Many of the citizens from within the reserves are also members of residential schools. “Social conditions on…

Aboriginal protest movements have exceptionally developed over the twentieth century to improve overall lifestyle for all Indigenous Australians. Injustice and inequality for Aboriginals were common and dated back to the first settlement in 1788. Momentous protests, Day of Mourning and the Freedom Ride successfully promoted against the prejudice and discrimination towards the Aboriginals. Other memorable events of protest include Eddie Mabo Land Rights. All of these events successfully made…

Minister John Howard rejected to apologize for indigenous people on behalf of the nation and stressed that delivering a symbolic apology and letting Australians of this generation burden with the blame and a sense of national guilt would not facilitate successful reconciliation (Gunstone 80). Instead, he advocated…

Indigenous Tribe Report: Haida People The Haida people are an indigenous tribe that spans the international boundary between British Columbia, Canada, and Alaska, United States. They also live on two large and many smaller islands, known as Haida Gwaii (which means island of the people). They also live in southeast Alaska. They conduct regular trade with Russia, Spain, Britain, and the U.S., as well as fur and whale traders. On the islands they have many fortifications to defend themselves if…

native Hawaiians, and the Maori natives of New Zealand, these case studies are incorporated in this literature review to contextualize the authorsʻ arguments. In the literature discussing the methods that colonizers employed to acculturate the native peoples they came into contact with, each of the authors assert that these actions were initiated by the colonizersʻ intention to improve the lifestyles of the natives. Each of the authors explain that the colonizers condemned native practices and…

A primary issue within Indigenous affairs is the intergenerational disadvantage, however, another key issue is the frequent discrimination and racism. Beyondblue have stated Australia is still a society in which 1 in 5 individuals openly admit to having racist attitudes towards Indigenous people (2014). Many Australians are aware of the discrimination that exists yet, many do not understand that it is directly connected to the nation's history of colonisation. This issue is also perpetuated by…

go into what each author is trying to argue for social workers to understand, I will use the “indigenous”, “aboriginal”, and “First Nations” interchangeable. Dr. June Yee’s, critical anti racism praxis: the concept of whiteness implicated, and Dr. Baskin’s Structural social work as seen from an Aboriginal perspective. Baskin’s article argues that using an Aboriginal perspective is better to help people who are aboriginal rather than using a structural perspective, while June, Yee’s Article…

that people should do this in the future so they could help the history of their country stay alive to provide care of everything they got that is valuable and could be used to help the future understand the past, how did we live and what had we did day to day bases.These text could teached somebody that helping the community you could save something that was important to the whole country and that they could see it and say thank you. In the first the first text the (Indigenous…