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    Around 60, 000 years ago, the Aborigines sailed on primitive boats or rafts from South East Asia to Southern Australia. During that time, Australia was an isolated wasteland that was yet to be discovered. They settled in New South Wales near Sydney, and soon spread throughout the country. Aborigines were nomadic people, whom were constantly moving in small groups, so their highly adaptable nature and adept surviving skills were essential to their survival. For the Aborigines, the land was considered

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    Amanda hamner | Australian Aborigines and their Complex Kinship | Introduction into Cultural Anthropology | | Kathryn Grant | 6/11/2012 | | Australian Aborigines and their Complex Kinship Aborigines have a complex system in relation to their social and marriage laws, based on the grouping of people within their society. To understand the complexities of their social organization, consider it this way: divide it first into three main parts. The first part is the physical structuring

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    traditions, particular animals or plants are assigned symbolic status; in religions with food taboos, people are forbidden to eat certain foods except perhaps in specific sacred contexts. Secondly, totems are one of the cultural symbols. Australian Aborigines, as do many other peoples, “conceptualize a single, unified cosmic order in which man and the natural species, ancestral beings, spirits and other conceived entities are on equal terms. All are interrelated in a genealogical and pseudogenealogical

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    Social Determinants of Health in Aborigines

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    Aboriginal health is majorly determined by several social factors that are related to their cultural beliefs. Health professionals regularly find it difficult to provide health care to aboriginal people due to the cultural disparity that exists between the conventional and aboriginal cultures, predominantly with regard to systems of health belief (Carson, Dunbar, & Chenhall, 2007). The discrepancy between the aboriginal culture and typical Western customs seems to amplify the difficulties experienced

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    Song of Hope by Kath Walker

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    'Song of Hope' Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Look up, my people, The dawn is breaking, The world is waking, To a new bright day, When none defame us, Nor colour shame us, Nor sneer dismay. Now brood no more On the years behind you, The hope assigned you Shall the past replace, When juster justice Grown wise and stronger Points the bone no longer At a darker race. So long we waited Bound and frustrated, Till hate be hated And caste deposed; Now light shall guide us, And all doors open That long

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    Why a site listing world immigrants to VDL/Tasmania to 1900? Tasmania has been populated by Aboriginal people since time immemorial. It was known internationally from the 1642 until 1853 as Van Diemen’s Land (VDL). From 1853, with the cessation of convict transportation from the British Empire, it became known as Tasmania. At the 1996 Census, 13,873 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people registered as living in Tasmania (ABS 1301.6 – Tasmanian Year Book, 2000), and in 2010 just over

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    The Aborigines Protection Amending Act of 1915 B) Argue against the Protection Act I have chosen to argue question B, because I am against The Protection Act. The protection act was passed in 1897, where the chief protector, who was in charges and their guarding, he was allowed to remove children from their families. In 1971 the Aboriginal Protection Act stopped. The act gave the power to remove any child without any court order nor parental consent. The act provided full control, and therefore

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    With globalization and colonization taking over almost the entire known world, native tribes who are indigenous to their lands are losing control of the lands that their people have lived in for ages to the hands of foreign colonizers who claim the land as their own. Now, indigenous people all around the world are struggling to reclaim the lands and rights that were taken away from them through non-violent social relations with national governments and large corporations. Anthropologists have recorded

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    The Birth of Humankind The Aborigine Creation Myth is the story that tells how the Earth and humankind came into creation, told by the indigenous Aboriginal tribe of Australia. Featured in the story are two celestial beings who have no fixed shape, Mother Sun and Father of All Spirits, and the new animal spirits of Earth. At the beginning of the universe, all was quiet and every being was asleep, except for Father of All Spirits. Father Spirit awoke the sleeping Mother Sun and told her she had work

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    mistreat and disrespect the Aborigines, who are presented as the foundation of Australia. The Aborigines are forced into hidden parts of Australia where they are massacred by poison – they are tortured in a foreign way by foreign people without cause. For over thousands of years, the Aborigines have lived in peace on land that belonged to everybody, in a peaceful community. Grenville presents the Aborigines to be strongly linked to nature. Grenville portrays the Aborigines as beautiful and empowered

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