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    the Europeans saw the Aborigines as equals. George Worgan’s journal entry and Auguste Earle’s painting both provide insight and illustrate the different opinions and perceptions thought of the “natives” by the Europeans.

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    reported by Elkin, a contemporary academic who studied aborigine culture, that the aborigines showed no desire to join a mission and to partake in the ways of the white people, as farming, houses, and schools interfered with the aboriginals’ pre-existent lifestyle of nomadism (Elkin, 1951). Therefore, their perceived ‘inhumane’ lifestyle and their resistance to conforming to a white lifestyle arguably confirmed the held beliefs that the aborigine culture was detrimental and inhumane to the Indigenous

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    On page 85 Pollan brings up a story about how in 1982, Australian Aborigines participated in an interesting experiment that shows the damage the Western diet can do, but also how luckily the human body can heal itself if it gets the right foods. The Aborigines all succumbed to westernization and one can see the effects when Pollan says, “Since leaving the bush some years before, all ten had developed type 2 diabetes; they also showed signs of insulin resistance and elevated triglycerides in the

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    anthropologist from Australia of Australian Aborigines descent, spoke at the Berndt’s lecture in 2011. Her article, Anthropology, Politics and the Changing World of Aboriginal Australians, focuses primarily on the works of an anthropologist couple Robert and Catherine Berndt. They had completed many ethnographic studies in various areas around Australia. Langton states that their work has been crucial in order to have a complete understanding of the Australian Aborigines’ society. The indigenous Australian’s

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    Aborigines of Tasmania (1859) by Robert Dowling is notable for its use of both light and dark tones(rather than put the dates after the paintings name you should properly reference the painting here at the end of the sentence and then put it in a reference list). The tones are used to create a realistic work that mirrors the shadows that would be present on a day such as the one depicted in the work. The harmony of the colours convey a rather relaxed but serious atmosphere where the figures appear

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    were recognised as The Freedom Rides. The group aimed with hope to acknowledge and expose to the public the socially discriminatory barriers which existed between Aboriginals and white people. The student body called their group ‘Student Action for Aborigines’ (SAFA) and aimed to draw the public’s attention to the appalling treatment and state of Aboriginal health, education and living conditions in Australia as well as the issue that Aboriginals were not counted as Australian citizens. The students

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    As the world is becoming more industrialized, processed foods are becoming cheaper and easier to purchase. This shift in natural food availability is becoming a growing health concern for people around the world; however, Canadian aboriginal communities are feeling greater negative effects of food insecurity (FI). When people in a community do not have “physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy

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    A Comparison of the Australian Aborigines and The Na’vi in Avatar. The widely acclaimed movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron, is known as a movie that portrays the treatment of the Aboriginal peoples. It shows many similarities in circumstances and views of the Aboriginal peoples. However there are still some differences between these cultures. Each group of indigenous peoples have their own culture, lifestyles and beliefs. In Avatar the Na’vi believe that every living thing is connected while

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    The Aborigines used a variety of art to share stories including rock carvings, body painting and ground designs which date back to more than 30,000 years ago. The Aborigines used red ochre for the rock carvingsxvi. A special place where you can see Aboriginal rock carvings is Dampier Archipelago in Western Australia where the rock carvings are thought to number in the millions. There are three main types of Aboriginal art. The first being engraved geometric figures. The second being silhouettes of

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    The first economic system is a traditional system. It is an economy based on custom. In the past this has been probably the most popular most prominent one but there are not many of this left. It is can be in Eskimo culture and Australian Aborigines were in seventies were isolated places that live on subsistence agriculture pretty just grow in African sales. This system produces the needs for survival that is all can they produce not make extra. There is no kind of money. The way they produce

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