Australia is a place with a history that is not at all lost it is known as an area that has had a predominant and specific population by nomadic hunters. Carbon dating of skeletal remains proves that Australian Aboriginal history started some 40‚000 years ago. This history is not completely lost. It is retained in the minds and memories of compassionate generations of Aboriginal people‚ passed on through a rich oral tradition of song‚ story‚ poetry and legend. To the aboriginal culture and belief
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and learning) strategies. It is evident that in today’s society Aboriginal people have many issues to overcome to give their children the best opportunities in life. Some of these include‚ poor health care‚ young pregnancy‚ isolation‚ postnatal and antenatal care‚ uneducated parents‚ alcoholism/substance abuse‚ inadequate housing‚ family violence and racism (Gordon.S. 2006). Although there has been a slight increase in Aboriginal children completing their schooling due to past government attempts
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy‚ 1972 Land is the right to ownership of a country. What does land mean to Aboriginals? Aboriginals have a strong spiritual connection with land‚ Aboriginal law and spirituality is intertwined with their land‚ the creation‚ The people and overall this forms their culture and sovereignty. For them‚ the land is their mother‚ and steeper is their cultural responsibility to take care of it. But the aboriginal people constantly struggled for their land because they were not
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Aboriginal spirituality is the belief that all objects are living and share the same soul or spirit that Aboriginals share. It is inextricably connected to the land which “owns” the Aboriginal people. No distinction is made between the secular and spiritual life. Aboriginal spirituality is a total way of life. The fundamental tenet that underpins Aboriginal spirituality is a concept known as the Dreaming. The Dreaming is a term referring to Aboriginal spiritual beliefs about origins of the universe
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Aboriginal law had lasted for hundreds of years before white settlement of Australia in 1788. The laws were based from the Dreamtime and were formed by ancestors‚ spirits and Aboriginal beliefs. These laws were passed down by a word-of-mouth tradition and as there were many different tribes consisting of many clans spread out over a large area‚ separate laws were adapted to specific tribes and areas. Aboriginal customary laws were developed and based on the aboriginal relationship to the land as
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Contemporary Aboriginal Issues Assignment 3- Essay Topic 3: Discuss the political struggle for recognition of indigenous rights to land. In your answer‚ consider the benefits and limitations of the Native Title Act and recent United Nations criticisms of the current Act. For years we have witnessed the Indigenous population ’s political struggle for recognition of rights to Australian land. At times the effort appears to be endless and achieving recognition almost seems impossible. Native
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Australian Aboriginal art‚ song and dance has been the corner stone of culture since the beginning of their existence. Having no form of written language Aboriginal art‚ songs‚ and dances passed down through the generations have been the heartbeat that has kept this ancient culture alive. Even though the art‚ medium‚ song‚ and dance of each Aboriginal tribe may be completely different‚ they all serve the same purposes; create ceremony‚ and to inform each member of the tribe of their history‚ spiritual
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Aboriginal Civil Rights Find out who Eddie Mabo‚ Vincent Lingiari and Albert Namatjra was. What was their contribution to civil rights‚ equality and indigenous welfare in Australia? Eddie Mabo Eddie Mabo was born Eddie Koiki Sambo but changed his name later on in life‚ he was born on Mer Island (Murray Island) in the Torres Strait in 1936. His mother died during infancy which left him to be raised by his uncle; Benny Mabo. After a teenage prank that ended badly‚ Eddie was exiled from his
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The impact of colonisation to the aboriginals was that the aboriginals lost their land to the british. The british took all of the Aboriginal people tools and weapons. The Aboriginals thought it was sharing so they took some of the british tools. The british did not think of it as sharing the thought it was stealing.when the aboriginals found out there were not sharing the aboriginals got mad. Sharing is part of the law.so the aborginas got mad at the british for not shareing.the british also ruinad
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Hypothesis: The land is the basis for all Australian Aboriginal Spirituality. Without their reverence for the land there would be little spirituality or enduring method of communicating their way of life. For some 40‚000 years the framework for Australian Aboriginal spirituality is their belief that all objects are living and share the same soul or spirit that Aboriginals share. The basic Aboriginal spiritual belief is invariably about the land Aboriginal people live on. ‘This belief is ‘geosophical’
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