The long challenge of indigenous people has been overcome by not only their feeling of dispossession of their land but also that dispossession of being emotionally hurt through that of indigenous culture and family. Passage one Red Indian Heritage is my reading of a plea by Chief Seattle to keep his peoples land and this their way of life; it informs my reading of Garry Foley’s article White Myths Damage Our Souls which was writing over one hundred years after Seattle’s. Both texts explore similar ideas of dispossession within indigenous people. Foley’s article informs the reader of that forced assimilation of Koori people in Australia has cost them their Aboriginality which is also something Chief Seattle mentioned in his speech as to what…
When the British started settling in Australia they started controlling the lives of the Aboriginals with the thought of them dying out anyway. The police had monstrous power they were authorized to confiscate children from the Aboriginal families, from 1910 onwards an estimate of 50 000 children were forcibly removed from their families. With over 30 years of psychological trauma this practise was to…
They placed children under the care of Europeans because they thought this would mean “advancing” the aboriginal children. However, many Aborigines are still searching for their children, mothers and other family members. Through this forced separation many aboriginal people have struggled in life, experienced low-self esteem, feeling of worthlessness, social dysfunction, high rates of unemployment and ongoing health issues. This loss if identity can result in depression and other mental illness (Creative Spirit…
The dispossession of Aboriginal land had a damaging impact on the indigenous peoples in post 1945 Australia. Throughout Aboriginal history, land, spirituality and kinship have been inextricably linked. The dispossession from land and kinship has had a devastating impact on the stolen generation in that it took away their culture and spirituality.…
the Stolen Generation refers to the generations of Aboriginals being forcefully taken from their families and put in camps or European homes. Europeans believed they needed to educate aboriginals in the western culture thus causing a ripple effect for millions of aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islanders to come. Aboriginals were ripped of their independence, culture, land and freedom. Due to this the ‘Stolen Generations’ has impacted current health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities, families and individuals. The spirituality, emotional, physical, and mental part of wellness was crushed in the Stolen Generation. Many of the stolen generation agonize now over the trauma that became their childhoods. The wellness…
The landing of white man in Australia caused havoc for the first Aboriginal inhabitants of the land. For years the white society pushed and shoved the aboriginal culture and traditions out. Many of the universal declaration human rights were breached and ignored against the aboriginal people. One of the worst crimes that has stained Australia’s history would be the “Stolen generation” this disgraceful event caused many social and physical problems for the children who were kidnapped.…
Chronic grief can be identified as lasting for a prolonged period of time and without any…
Discuss the psychological and physical effects of loss and grief: How might an ethical therapist incorporate this knowledge into his/her work? Base your answer of the theories and models presented in Module 7.…
Numerous Indigenous children were wrongly informed that their guardians had passed away or deserted them, and numerous never knew where they had been taken from or who their natural families were. Also, the Indigenous children got a low level of training, as they were relied upon to fill in as unskilled workers and household hirelings. Furthermore, huge numbers of the Stolen Generations were mentally, physically, and sexually manhandled while living in state care or with their receptive families and endeavours to make these Indigenous children dismiss their way of life frequently made them feel embarrassed about their Indigenous legacy. Lastly, medical specialists have noticed a high rate of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and suicide among the Stolen Generations (Read, 2015). Likewise, the families of the stolen generation children suffered a lot of trauma and also made an impact of what had happened. The evacuation of a few generations of Indigenous children extremely disturbed Indigenous culture, and thus much social information was lost. Also, a large number of the Stolen Generations never experienced living in a sound family circumstance, and never learned child rearing aptitudes. Likewise, the loss of having their youngsters taken away was annihilating to numerous guardians, who never recouped from their sorrow and a few…
The consequences of dispossession for aboriginal spirituality have been enormously and overwhelming detrimental. Two centuries of dispossession impacted greatly on Aboriginal Spirituality most significantly the separation from land led to a loss of identity and thus the dreaming and it’s rituals that follow. The dreaming is inextricably connected to the land and thus the forceful removal from their land means that Aboriginals lost much more than a place to call home. For Aboriginals the land is their mother their sole purpose in life is to love and protect the land and one day return home to the grasp of their mother country. The dispossession from the land resulted in a continuing burden for aboriginal as they were no longer able to fulfil…
The initial impacts of those victims of the stolen generation began with the direct disconnection from family members and the harsh reality that they were now separated from loved ones, which in some cases was forever. This factor in particular is one of the leading reasons that indigenous people are affected by the Stolen Generation as a contemporary issue in today’s society. Family is what…
After many years of protest The "Day of Mourning" made an impact, and changed aboriginal peoples life’s the government made new laws for the education and care of aboriginal people, which now made them equal with the “white community”…
Aboriginals have always had a strong link between them and the land with the belief of the Dreamtime and the art, symbols, rituals and totems that came with it. After the white settlement, the way in which aboriginals lived their everyday life took a dramatic turn. It had affected their culture for many generations with a disconnection with the land to them.…
Beginning in 1910 and ending in the 1970s, Australians Federal and State government agencies and church missions made a policy to forcibly take many aboriginal and Torres Strait children away from their families in an attempt to destroy the Aboriginal race and culture. There was an impact on the aboriginals with a particular policy the Australian Government had introduced, which was the policy of ‘Assimilation’. This policy was to encourage many Aboriginal people to give up their culture, language, tradition, knowledge and spirituality to basically become white Australians. Unfortunately this policy didn’t give the Aboriginals the same rights as white Australians, as a result of discrimination, aboriginals were moved to live in special housing…
Admittedly, when reading the article Disenfranchised Grief and Nonfinite Loss as Experienced by the families of death row inmates written by Sandra J. Jones and Elizabeth Beck who conducted a study in 2007 and finding that family members of death row inmates experience grief differently than others in society. In the article, two of the main issues that the authors discussed was the concepts of disenfranchised grief and nonfinite loss. Additionally, these concepts are defined by the authors quoting Bruce and Schultz saying “family members are disenfranchised from their grief, as society does not socially validate their pain. The loss that they feel is also nonfinite in that it is continuous and denies the families all of the hopes,dreams, and…
