Introduction
This essay will illustrate the ways Indigenous Australians have resisted the non Indigenous occupation of Australia and the policies imposed on them. The points that will be covered are the impacts of the Colonial frontier, the protection policy, segregation and the stolen generation on the lives of Indigenous Australians, and there reactions during these era’s. Indigenous Australian resistance in its many forms was an inescapable feature of life on the fringes of European settlement from the first months at sydney cove until the early years of the twentieth century. The intensity and duration of conflict varied widely depending on terrain, indigenous population densities and the speed of settlement, the type of introduced economic activity, even the period of first contact.
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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. Indigenous people were used for cheap or virtual slave labour and White men came and used the women for prostitution. In 1971 the Yungngora people employed on Noonkanbah station left in protest over poor pay and