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Positive And Negative Effects On Aboriginal People

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Since the European invasion of Australia in 1788 aboriginals have tackled discrimination and injustice. Overtime aboriginals developed a hunter-gatherer lifestyle where they established spiritual and artistic traditions and used stone technologies. Since the invasion it is believed that indigenous people ‘have been oppressed into a world that is unnatural to their existence’ (Twain, 2018). European settlement has placed a significant impact upon indigenous people. Their dispossession of the land, exposure to new diseases and involvement in violent conflict, resulted in the death of a vast number of the aboriginal peoples. The impact of the white settlers changed indigenous lives, and the lives of future generations. Colonists were set to believe that Australian land ‘belonged to nobody.’ This reference is referred to as Terra Nullius and was declared by Lt James Cook in 1770 (Twain, 2018). …show more content…

The immoral battles indigenous people have been put through are still haunting them today. The negative effects of colonisation are still having an impact on Indigenous people every day. Aboriginals were forced to give up their own traditional culture and adopt a western culture, with the expectation of assimilation and this was further developed as a formal government policy in 1951. Children were taken away from their families as a result of various government policies; these children’s were referred to as the stolen generation. The children taken were generally made into slaves for white people. This happened between the years 1910 and 1970 and aboriginal people are still recovering from a legacy of trauma and

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In Australia the Europeans took over all the land that the Aboriginals had owned for over 40,000 years. They had lost their livelihood, living in dumps and small humpies, no where near a safe or healthy environment. The indigenous people were treated very inhumanely; being told where they can go, where they can’t go and who they can have relationships with. Of course they grew extremely angry and something drastic needed to

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Regrettably, the impacts of colonisation have had detrimental effects on the Indigenous cultures remaining within Australia, being effected largely by media stereotypes and false accusations. Understandably, a mistrust for the government has developed throughout generations within Aboriginal communities, as years of slavery, pain, grief, depression and sorrow were caused by the Australian

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Due to the actions promoted by racism against aboriginals from the year 1910- 1970 many Indigenous Australians have grown into adults still carrying the scars of the past. Some will never come to know their birth parents or who they truly are. They will grow old with the remembrance of a past full of torture and abuse that they will carry till the day they die. They grew up with the idea that their heritage should be rejected since it is the ‘inferior’ way of life.

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The Aborigines Act was one of the most horrific acts of hatred and racism to ever commence in history, and has affected generations of Indigenous Australians, and will continue to affect several generations of Indigenous Australians to come. It led to decades of generational trauma, an irreversible loss of cultural identities within society, and ongoing educational and occupational inequalities. Mistreated children often grow up to have children of their own, who are often mistreated due to their parent’s trauma. This is called Generational Trauma, which can impact several generations of children, often called a ‘cycle of abuse’, much like a ripple effect. In other words, Generational Trauma involves the transmission of trauma from one generation

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Aboriginal People and Historical Globalizations Aboriginal People lived in North America. They were the first people to step into North America, but when the European countries tried to find a way to get to Asia by sending explorers, one of them was Christopher Columbus who sailed to find the routes to Asia. When he reached North America, he found the new land where he met the Aboriginals. This was the time of historical globalization. The English people took them and put them in residential school because “it was best for the future of aboriginal people”.

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Indigenous Australians felt betrayed as they had been forcibly removed from their lands, communities and traditional ways of life. Thousands of years of culture, knowledge, and kinship with the land was being systematically destroyed. Many indigenous people resisted, moving onto reserves, Some of them had no choice. reserves were often too small to support Indigenous populations and communities were split up or overcrowded, or they were forced to live with neighbouring Nations, who were not their kin – and so a lot of in-fighting and problems occurred. the land where the reserves were set up, was unwanted it was no good for farming or deemed wasteland and usually outside of town emphasising that Indigenous communities were not a part of mainstream communities.

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Introduction: Before 1967 (50 years ago), Aboriginals weren’t treated as they should be. Aboriginals were considered Animals or plants under the Flora and Fauna act. Some 50,000 years ago Aboriginals found Australia and the land is therefore rightfully theirs. But as soon as Europeans arrived in Australia (or New Holland as it was called when the Europeans named it) Aboriginals were slaughtered and killed if they went anywhere near their belongings.

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The era of forcible removal and assimilation continued until the mid 1960's. The damaging impacts of the removal policies continue to resonate through the future generations of Aboriginal families as the trauma is inherited by new children in multifaceted ways through parenting practices, behavioral problems, violence, unresolved grief and trauma, and mental illness. in psychological studies of aboriginal families, there have noted a high incidence of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and suicide among the Stolen

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The impacts of colonisations have caused many socioeconomic disadvantages to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. When comes to health Aboriginal Torres Islander People have some of the poorest status compared to other Australians, on average life expectancy in 12 years less (Briskman, 2007). The Aboriginal and Torres Islander People are more likely to be living in inadequate housing (Taylor & Guerin, 2010). The rate of unemployment and poverty is higher among Aboriginal Torres Islander People than other Australia’s Dudgeon et al(as cited in Purdie et al, 2010). The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are overrepresented in both the correctional and child welfare system (Taylor & Guerin, 2010).

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Abstract Being an aborigine in a white dominated society is a complicated identity. Australia, one of the white governed nations, also owns many aboriginal tribes. They lived harmonious lives in the early period. But European colonization has made a profound effect on the lives of Aboriginals in Australia, which led to the total demolition of their native culture, identity and history. As a result the new generation Aboriginals have lost their Aboriginal heritage and have been accepted neither by Aboriginals nor by whites.

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The period of the Stolen Generation was a tough time for many. The Stolen Generations were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian government. Removing children from their families was official government policy in Australia between 1905-1969 (Australian Museum, 2004). The stolen generation impacted heavily upon the indigenous children and their families in a variety of different ways.

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A large majority of Australians have been presented with a version of Australian history that has minimised and ignored important events regarding Aboriginal people that include many violent and painful deaths that until recently have been hidden quietly. History is extremely important in forming cultural identity which in turn leads to an increased sense of security and belonging. Therefore a need for shared history is required in Australia for recognising the history of both Aboriginal and non-aboriginal people (Gore, 2008). When studying the history of Australia it is important to recognise that it is a shared history. The shared history of Australia acknowledges that the history of Australia began long before the British started to

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Furthermore the Aboriginals lived and thrived off the land with it providing both food and shelter in the harsh Australian landscape. This all changed however when the British, led by Captain James Cook, arrived in Botany Bay in 1788. Over the next years, more and more British arrived, many of whom were convicts, with the intent on colonising the land and building a life for themselves in the new land. These selfish white men believed that the Aboriginals didn 't own the land because there were no clear boundaries, fences, or signs set up that divided the land up between groups and signalled ownership. The British claimed this land under “Terra Nullius” which means “no ones land” and began to build on the land they claimed as their own.

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European colonisation led to the loss of land for the First Nations Peoples of Australia for many reasons. Aboriginal people had a strong connection with the land, and the colonists wanted to take that away, the ideas of Terra Nullius made the colonists think it was okay and the loss of land had a tremendous impact on the Aboriginal people and made it hard to live. The Aboriginal people had a deep connection with the land, but the colonists wanted to take this away from them. While Europeans believed that they owned the land they lived on, the Aboriginal people thought that the land owned them, that ‘the land is [their] mother’.

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