The Aboriginals Essay

For one, the mothers irrepressible demeanour. Most apparent during confrontations at the Couttes border, King paints a true picture of what it means to be proud of who you are, regardless of the ongoing influences of Western society and culture. Her repeated claim of a Blackfoot citizenship, regardless of the resulting delays, shows that she will not give up the most important thing to her; Identity. The mothers portrayal of Aboriginal dignity is also apparent through the subtle convincing of her daughter to stay on the reserve. Aboriginal identity is not just about tradition and language, but about place. In a study conducted by Kathleen Wilson (2003) of McMaster University, an overwhelming percentage of the indigenous community claimed that “the land, as place, is an integral park of First Nations peoples identity and health”(p.83). With a long history of colonization and Western pressures, it’s no surprise that the mother wishes to keep her family close to the land they currently inhabit. Aboriginal identity of older generations is very much about reclaiming as much of your history and culture as possible, allowing it to continue and hopefully thrive.

For generations, indigenous people have been facing social injustice in regards to wellbeing, lifestyle and their education. While things have changed over time there still is inequalities and discrimination towards the indigenous peoples. There is an unbalance in education system as the financial demands and locations are unattainable to the indigenous communities. This paper focuses on the root cause of aboriginal people and their education systems, more specifically reasons why they receive such low levels of educations, i.e. Many grow up without achieving schooling at a college or university level. It will also address their schooling systems and what it entails, such school funding and government assistance. Lastly, this paper will look at the treaties and agreements that were originally placed and

This week’s learning has significantly developed my awareness of Indigenous origins, history and culture. I discovered the multiple recordings of Indigenous origins and events that occurred before and after European settlement. Before starting this unit I did not have proper knowledge of previous government policies of discriminating the lives of Indigenous Australians such as protection, assimilation, integration, self-determination, multiculturalism and the Howard Government’s mean-spirited practical reconciliation (Harrison & Sellwood, 2016); and how Indigenous Australians struggled to earn the equality (Miller, 2012) to reach the current policy of ‘Closing the Gap’. What this week’s learning have highlighted that today Australian classrooms acknowledge, respect and deliver Indigenous Australian histories more adequately than ever before. I now understand that Indigenous perspectives would help students to learn the interconnectedness of Indigenous histories and relate these to contemporary life for Indigenous Australians (The Department of Education, 2017). This understanding is essential for me to evaluate my own knowledge of Indigenous Australian histories and policies to develop a holistic approach to include Indigenous perspectives in classrooms.

During my interview with Margaret West of Bourke, NSW - I was able to gain first-hand knowledge and understanding of the issues (healthcare, safety and education) that were faced by some indigenous people during the 70’s and 80’s. After the interview concluded, I had enough information to compare the policies of her generation in contrast to the modern policies that deal with the same issues that were discussed in the interview.

In the 15th century European explorers came and sailed to Turtle Island (now know as Canada). The European Explorers claimed that this was their land but the Aboriginal people of Canada were already living there. Since the Europeans and the Aboriginal people of Canada didn’t speak the same language they couldn’t communicate with the Europeans that much but the Aboriginal people of Canada understood the Europeans a bit. Europe started claiming the land of Turtle Island. Many more European explorers came to Canada and other parts of the Americas (North and South America combined) such as Jacques Cartier, John Cabot, Samuel De Champlain, Henry Hudson all of these peoples crew members. These explorers claimed some land of the Americas. These explorers

contemporary aboriginal & European relations. Last Indian Residential School in Canada closed (in BC last one closed in 1984).

The Aboriginal People are very important to understand and address because they have contributed a lot to human innovation. Even though there isn’t much left of the Aboriginal people in the world they have left behind many aspects of their culture that we as humans can appreciate. They are one of the oldest living cultures to this day with an abundance of innovation, art and history.

It is amazing to note that humans are a type of species that can smartly organize and form a community. Several of these communities create their cultural norms and beliefs that make their society a place to live. Willis, K. and Elmer, S. (2007, p3), defines society as the identifying pattern of behaviour, meanings and beliefs in order to uncover the links between individual lives and social forces.

Indigenous people to gain legal recognition in Australia and reclaim their lands. Ironically, Aboriginals are being restricted the freedom from exercising their property rights. Therefore, the question is whether the Indigenous people is being unfairly treated under native title.

The map of the different language groups in Australia surprised me as I hadn’t realised just how diverse Aboriginal Australia is. After realising how many different Aboriginal cultures exist within Australia is, I was surprised to learn that Aboriginals were often just lumped together as one group, and that people took a “one size fits all” approach.

An element of the section I found to be important is the need for Aboriginal youth to see the officers as members of the community, rather than officer. For the Aboriginal, the importance of this is due to the fact that they felt that these officers did not care for their communities. In turn, this all ties into the hostility and fear that the youth have against the officers, since they see the officer's job to be just crime and punish, rather than to serve the community. Therefore, perhaps by viewing officers as members of the community, the relationship between the police and Aboriginal youth can be strengthened to the point in which a more trusting community can decrease amount of harsh interactions that officers and Aboriginal youth have, and maybe even reduce the overall crime.

Aboriginal Peoples have suffered a history of injustice that extent from the period of colonization to globalization in the present. First, when they were exposed to colonial invasion into their lands, most of them were tortured, enslaved, and even killed. Unfortunately, these communities continue to suffer the exploitation of diverse industries, which give more importance to personal profit than to respect the human rights of the members of the indigenous communities. It is time to make a change!

The first Europeans to settle Australia treated the Aboriginals in a brutal, unfair manor. They downgraded Aboriginals to a lower status as human beings. They tried to force the Aboriginals to conform to the western way of life for more than 200 years. It is only fairly recently that the Aboriginals have finally been able to gain back some of their indigenous rights and traditions.

In Taiwan, besides people of Han, who are majority the immigration from mainland China, there are nine aboriginal ethnic groups. These tribes have been living in Taiwan long time before a large population of Chinese migrated in the 20th century. Among these nine aboriginal groups, Amis is the largest and the oldest ethnic group in Taiwan (Diaowan, 2005). Just like other group of people who has long-time history, There are also many mythological stories in Amis culture. These mythological stories helped ancient Amis people to understand the nature, agriculture and themselves. This paper will briefly talk about the most two popular mythology of aboriginal Amis

For Aborigines, Australia was a marginally better place in which to live in 1945 then in 1900. At the turn of the century, the Australian state governments neither had a uniform nor clear Aboriginal policy. Treatment of Aborigines was consequently decided by society’s individual attitudes, not law. While many people (white) were aggressive towards Aborigines till well past 1945, a general more sympathetic attitude towards them started to slightly ease the strong oppression they were shackled by. As the social stance towards aborigines improved so did the political policy, leading to a small improvement in (or the minor establishment of) Aboriginal economy, though in practise their actual situation had changed