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    According to Ricco Villanueva Siasoco, “Aborigines are Australia's indigenous people. Recent government statistics counted approximately 400,000 aboriginal people, or about 2% of Australia's total population.” Indigenous people are the first people/persons that occupy a region, where they in contact with outsiders, usually colonial powers. It is believed that Australian Aborigines migrated somewhere in Asia roughly over 30,000 years ago, Siasoco writes, “Though

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    lifestyles. The happy life that aborigines led by hunting, digging yams, dancing corroboree, enjoying the didjeridoo, living

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    of 450,000 Aborigines in Australia, it is observed that when compared to other communities, this community faces enhanced problems of chronic illness and problems from cigarette smoking in addition to other health issues. Among the various problems faced by the Aboriginal people include children’s health issues. These include low birth weight accompanied by an infant mortality rate that is almost three times that of the national average; such a figure results to 15.2 deaths of Aborigine infants as

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    Black War Analysis

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    eb.com.au/levels/high Notes Who were the Tasmanian aborigines? What was their culture like before European settlement? • The Tasmanians were a separate population of Aboriginal Australians • Who were cut off from the mainland when a rise in the sea level flooded the Bass Strait about 10,000 years ago. What is genocide? How is it defined? What was the nature of this conflict? • Black War, term applied to conflicts between Aborigines and white European soldiers and settlers on the Australian

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    Australian Aborigines were the first people to live in Australia for tens of thousands of years before European colonization. Before colonization Indigenous Australians lived a healthy lifestyle that was also fulfilling spiritually. However, with European settlement came negative changes to indigenous wellbeing. The essay will explain how colonization is a health determinant for Indigenous Australians. The poor health of indigenous Australians can be measured using three key health indicators which

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    A Study On The Dreaming

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    devastating it was for the Aborigines to have their land taken away by civilized strangers we have to understand their belief system. Of course, the Aborigines have a complete different belief system than any other. For starters, The Aboriginal set of belief is based on dreamtime, or dreaming. Dreamtime is also referred as “The Time of Great Power” by groups in the north-west of South Australia. Dreamtime encompasses past and future times into one big sacred eternal present. Aborigines are also based on dreaming/spirit

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    The name of Australia comes from the Latin word Australis, which means southern. Since it lies entirely in the southern hemisphere, Australia is most commonly referred to as "down under". Australia, being a country, is also a continent. In land area it 's the sixth largest for a country and the smallest continent.<br><br>Australia is a very dry, thinly populated country. Very few coastal areas receive enough rainfall to support a large population. The largest group of Australian people live in two

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    Aboriginal Beliefs

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    The Aborigines are a society of people that focus on their original culture and traditions that have been there for thousands of years, long before Europeans discovered it, and their traditions are cherished and practiced to this day. On top of their traditional culture, they also have had a need to adapt to a modernizing world in their own right. The Aborigines’ forefathers left cave paintings and markings that describe ‘the dreams’ that connect them to their ancestors and their ways of life, which

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    dwelling place for the spirits of their ancestors and considered land to be the mother of all Aborigines as explained by S. Night an Aboriginal Land Rights activist: “Aboriginal spirituality is inextricably linked to land, it's like picking up a piece of dirt and saying this is where I started and this is where I'll go. The land is our food, our culture, our spirit and identity.” (Knight, 2016). Aborigines didn’t see themselves as the owners of the land; they were the custodians with the beliefs that

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    Australian Aborigines are native to Australia and have lived in a territory called the Arnhem Land or northern Australia for almost forty thousand years. Some of the Aborigines live in government housing today, while others still live among the land as their ancestors did. Aborigines are an ethnic group that also has many religious beliefs. They believe in Animism which is the belief that living creatures and the outside environment contain supernatural powers. Their culture and beliefs resonate

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