rituals, performances and sacred sites and objects. There are national parks around Australia, that reserve and respect the aboriginal artwork and culture. They are run by traditional owners and aboriginal communities to ensure indigenous involvement to help contribute and respect the aboriginal culture. One national park around the area is called Bulgandry it is a nice walk with aboriginal rock art to look at.
There is a national reconciliation week that helps us build stronger and better relationships between indigenous people and the wider Australian community. The Aboriginals go back 50,000 years. The British were unable to recognise the rights of the aboriginals and the connection they had with their land. They declared the land they were living on, was terra nullius which means the land belonged to nobody. When the colonisation happened by 1920 there was only 60,00 abogrinal and Torres strait islanders. When the British settlement happened, between 1910-1970 the abogrinal children were taken away from their families. The colonisation had a devasting impact on the indigenous people. Between 1788-1900 the indigenous population had dropped by 90%. Around 3 out of 4 indigenous people didn’t make it through the colonisation. The colonisation had introduced new diseases such as; small pox, measles and influenza. It was estimated that around 20,000 aboriginals where killed as a result of the violence. In 1835, john batman who was a pastoralist and explorer tried to make a treaty with the
aboriginals. By 1836 the British house of commons said that the aborigines have a plain right an sacred to their land.
There is also a NAIDOC week which celebrates history and achievements of their culture. We can implement the aboriginal culture by having aboriginal artwork on the wall, book and aboriginal music. We can celebrate NAICO week with the children. We can talk to the children about their culture and history. We can invite aboriginal people to come and talk to the children about their culture and perform a abogrinal dance and teach them and shoe them some of their own artwork and do a activity with the children. We can also take the children on a excursion to a national park for them to look at the aboriginal artwork and talk about it.