Australian Aboriginal History

The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines the term “Aboriginal” as “inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous” The indigenous people of Australia have been roaming the barren lands of the Outback, hunting game and establishing villages for centuries before the colonists arrived in the late 1700s. The Aboriginals came to Australia literally by the boat load from South East Asia, and during the 1900’s, the Englishman started abducting the Aboriginal children by the boat load and they still are to this day. The English parliament are wanting to change a huge part of Australian history for reasons that are not so clear. Geographically speaking, Australia could be considered

Adapting and overcoming life’s daily struggles have integrated its way into daily duties, but the migrating settlers sure have. Building cities where tribes once stood, building towns and villages along the river where men and women would hunt and cook. The Europeans alternant plan was to force the aboriginals off the shores and move them inland (Merriam-Webster). The only thing that could survive in the outback were shrubs and scavenging animals, so the hope was to kill of the aboriginal generation. Once they started to see that the population of aboriginals were growing and they started abducting children between the ages 5-18. Child removal policies were established for the "Protection" of aborigines throughout the newly formed states of Australia. By 1911, all of the states had their own policy for the removal. The child removal was suggested to transfer Aboriginal children into "decent and useful members of the community" (Haskins and Jacobs). Their idea of "decent and useful members of the community" is by forcing the children to work as domestic servants and to live on the white people 's ' government-controlled missions and

So was all of this exactly legal? Of course it was. Was it against the basic human rights that every citizen gets? Of course it was. But it had not stopped the government from continuing to abduct the children and take them from their loving families (Korff, Creative Spirits). The children were placed to a host family, thinking this would make their life “easier”. But this was not the case! The children “suffered physical and sexual abuse” (Korff, Stolen Generations timeline). A good amount of the aborigine communities would actually ban the consumption and possession of alcohol (Rodrigues). Allowing for them to be seen not as “dangerous”. But still the discrimination did not stop! Racism of the aborigines had increased immensely from the efforts of keeping their rich culture