Aboriginal Treatment in Australia
Aboriginals Treatment in Australia
21st February 2014
Protectionism
When: Nineteenth Century and much for the twentieth century
Rationale: The idea that the Aboriginal Australians need to be separated from the white community for their own good and for their own protection
Practice: Many aboriginal Australians were removed from their homeland and moved to reservations. The aboriginals were forced out of their traditional lifestyles and forced into a controlled white community lifestyle. Many children were taken away from their families to be raised up to become ‘European’ and try to ‘bleed’ out the Aboriginal bleed. Later on these children are known as the ‘Stolen Generations’.
Why Stop?: It stopped in the 1930’s when the people realized that the numbers were not dying out
Assimilation
When: The 1930’s
Rationale: The amount of ‘mixed blood’ people and Aboriginal people were increasing, they created this policy to make the Aboriginal people follow the customs and lifestyle of the white Australians.
Practice: For the Aboriginal Australians to follow new customs and the way of life with the white communities. It was a way for the Aboriginals to become absorbed into the mainstream Australian culture. Put Aboriginal kids in schools to ‘mainstream’ them, so when their older they can get jobs and become ‘white’ Australians.
Why Stop?: The policy started to be questioned in the 1960’s and in 1965 the whole idea of the policy changed – “all persons of aboriginal descent will choose to sustain a similar manner and standard living to that of other Australians”.
Integration
When: 1965 - 1972
Rationale: It was the change from assimilation and it was when the Australian government became more accepting and open to certain Aboriginal beliefs.
Practice: In particular this policy applied to the aboriginal belief of having sacred relationships with the land, the Aboriginal culture and their society became more apart of the wider Australian society and
21st February 2014
Protectionism
When: Nineteenth Century and much for the twentieth century
Rationale: The idea that the Aboriginal Australians need to be separated from the white community for their own good and for their own protection
Practice: Many aboriginal Australians were removed from their homeland and moved to reservations. The aboriginals were forced out of their traditional lifestyles and forced into a controlled white community lifestyle. Many children were taken away from their families to be raised up to become ‘European’ and try to ‘bleed’ out the Aboriginal bleed. Later on these children are known as the ‘Stolen Generations’.
Why Stop?: It stopped in the 1930’s when the people realized that the numbers were not dying out
Assimilation
When: The 1930’s
Rationale: The amount of ‘mixed blood’ people and Aboriginal people were increasing, they created this policy to make the Aboriginal people follow the customs and lifestyle of the white Australians.
Practice: For the Aboriginal Australians to follow new customs and the way of life with the white communities. It was a way for the Aboriginals to become absorbed into the mainstream Australian culture. Put Aboriginal kids in schools to ‘mainstream’ them, so when their older they can get jobs and become ‘white’ Australians.
Why Stop?: The policy started to be questioned in the 1960’s and in 1965 the whole idea of the policy changed – “all persons of aboriginal descent will choose to sustain a similar manner and standard living to that of other Australians”.
Integration
When: 1965 - 1972
Rationale: It was the change from assimilation and it was when the Australian government became more accepting and open to certain Aboriginal beliefs.
Practice: In particular this policy applied to the aboriginal belief of having sacred relationships with the land, the Aboriginal culture and their society became more apart of the wider Australian society and