Mungo Man History

The indigenous cultures of Australia are one of the oldest living cultures in the world. Indigenous groups across Australia have many oral stories about their past, which form part of a great tradition of knowledge. These stories explain the Aboriginal genesis in a different parts of the country and reveal the shaping of a formless land by great ancestors. Aboriginal people of Australia have suffered through many crises, when the British colonised Australia in 1788. Many Aboriginal people from different cultures died at hands of British colonial. There were not a lot of Aboriginal people in Australia in 19th century. Mostly, they inhabit in NSW, Queensland and Victoria. There are many cultures in NSW, one of the oldest culture in Sydney is the Darug, they are the traditional owners of Western and south Western areas of Sydney. The Darug nation is large in size and boasts many clans of Darug people. One of the clans called the Cabrogal. Cabramatta takes its name from the Cabrogal band of the Darug-speaking people that lived around Liverpool and Fairfield when the British first came to Australia.

Focus question – Why is Mungo Man an important person in Australian and Aboriginal history?

Reparations for the Aboriginal People Rewrite The Aboriginal people were one of the many natives that were imperialized by the British in the 1700’s. Like the other natives that were imperialized, they were treated terribly, and without mercy. Recently the proposed an appeal to receive a reparation for all the children that were stolen during the time of imperialism, “The Stolen Generation”. They do deserve this reparation, because they had their national and basic human rights violated, as well as suffered many physical, mental, and emotional harms, and that exceeds all guidelines set by the UN.

Archaeologists believe that aboriginals first came to Australia about 45, 000 years ago and were the only population of humans in Australia until the British invasion. There are about 500 different aboriginal groups each with their own language and territory and usually made up of several separate clans. The aboriginals of Australia are marginalised in today society. This marginalisation began right back during the British invasion where they were evicted from their own country, the stolen generation occurred and their health care, education, employment and housing was severely limited. Aboriginals generally live in poor conditions and choose unhealthy lifestyle choices

To begin with, a clarification must be made. Although for the purposes of this assessment I will be using the term Indigenous Australians, it is not the most appropriate term to be using, as the technical definition of indigenous is ‘originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native’ (‘Indigenous’, 1987). The more correct term would be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

Although scientists are not able to depict exactly when humans first came into contact with the reef, evidential estimations state that the Great Barrier Reef was first formed approximately 500,000 years ago, with the current reef state being formed about 6,000 to 8,000 years old.

Indigenous populations have been the carers and custodians of Australia and the Torres Strait for a period in excess of 60,000 years before being

There is little said about aboriginal people in early Australian history books. What we do know is that the view of Non-Aboriginal people was very ethnocentric. The opinion was that Aboriginal was that they were savages and

Aboriginal and Torres Trait Islander people migrated to Australia from Asia and Africa about40,000 years ago.They had a nomadic lifestyle.They hunted animals for food and used weapons made of wood and metal to hunting eg:-Boomerang.

During the 1800’s until the 1920s, the Aboriginal population digressed from nearly 500,000 members to roughly 30,000 because of those whom were new within the land, such as private settlers, colonial authorities, and squatters. During this prolong amount of time, only 20,000 members of the Aborigine society was murdered and between 20,000 to 35,000 children were removed from the families. The aborigines were considered as the inferior individuals within Australia. They were often referred to as “dispersed kangaroos” because of their distinctive features and their actions (such as bathing with sand) that demonstrated to the squatters that they were something rather than human beings (55). The settlers proclaimed that the

The Aboriginal people of Australia have inhabited the land for many thousands of years. Archaeologists think it is around 40 thousand years. Some even believe that Aboriginals have been in Australia for nearly 65 thousand years.

- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples inhabited the land of Australia for many thousands of years

Aborigines are believed to have lived in Australia for between 60,000 and 40,000 years, their early ancestors coming from South-East Asia. Precise population details for the period before European colonisation are unavailable, but it is estimated that there were between 300,000 and 1,000,000 Aborigines in Australia when European settlers first arrived in 1788.

The Aborigines are the indigenous people of Australia. According to their traditional beliefs, the Aborigines have inhabited Australia since the beginning of time, but most modern dating techniques have placed the first native Australians at closer to 60,000 years ago, based on carbon dating of fossils and knowledge of geological changes in the region. Sea levels have fluctuated throughout history and were 200 meters lower at the time the ancestors of the Aborigines were thought to have made their way to Australia. This still left large expanses of open water that had to be crossed- up to 100 km- indicating that these people had developed some sort of sea-faring technology long before any other people. The Aboriginal

Australian Aborigines are thought to have the longest continuous cultural history in the world. Yet, within a hundred years, the near extinction of the Aboriginal culture almost occurred. This single event, the invasion of the Australian continent by European settlers, changed the lifestyle, the culture, and the fate of Australian Aborigines. Their entire lives were essentially taken away and they were forced into a white, European world where the lifestyle change could not have been any different. Aborigines in Australia today are struggling to deal with a past in which they lost touch with their culture and now are trying to regain some of that cultural identity.