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The struggle between British settlers and the Aboriginal Australians -…
The struggle between British settlers and the Aboriginal Australians
The Aboriginal Australians
The Australian Aborigines are thus the first know humans to have populated the continental part of Australia, they constitute with the natives of the Torres Strait, the indigenous population of this state of Oceania.
But more specifically, for the Australian government, an Aborigine is a person who has Aboriginal ancestry, identifies himself or herself as an Aboriginal person, and is recognized as such by his or her Aboriginal community.
An aboriginal person is usually the person whose ancestors are the first known inhabitants of his or her native land.
If these three criterias are met, then you are officially an aboriginal, however, skin colour is not important.
The Aboriginal way of life
Today, a large part of the Aborigines lives in the city, more in the outskirts and in appalling conditions.
Some of them work in agriculture and on the ranches on the land from which they were robbed.
It is more those from the north who manage to keep their land and practice hunting.
Why the settlers and Aboriginal Australians clashed
The Aborigines attack the Colombes to protect their lands and their cultures while the Colombes fight this to win their land and reduce this population into slavery. The arrival of the colonists and their way of life will erase that of the Aborigines. The animals brought back by the colonists, for example, will destroy their harvest.
The story of Pemulwuy
Pemulwuy was a courageous resistance fighter who led a guerrilla war against the British settlement at Sydney Cove from 1788 through to 1802. Because of his resistance to the invaders, he became one of the most remembered and written about historical figures in Australian Aboriginal history.
Details of the "Stolen Generations"
Stolen Generation was a very horrible part of the Indigenous' history. The white people were taking control of everything at this time. So they decided that Indigenous people should be allowed to “die out” through a process of natural elimination, or, where possible, should be assimilated into the white community.
They separated the children from their parents and after this, they never saw each other for their whole life.
The children were forced to adopt white culture, to change their names and were forbidden to talk in their traditional languages. They were most of all abused in the institutions where they had to live, or they lived in white families. All these actions were done because white people couldn't accept Indigenous as equals and they looked at them as inferior people.
The children's life was horrible after that : they were abused, their life conditions was awful, they didn't always know from where they came from, almost no education was given to them. Also, they became very depressed, anxious and medical experts saw also post traumatic stress and suicide among the Stolen Generations.
For the parents, it was the same : they became crazy, some of them turned to alcohol and they couldn't forget that they were having their children removed. The oral culture has been practically lost because of the removal of several generations of children
Between 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies. The generations of children removed under these policies was named as The Stolen Generations. The policies of child removal has affected and still affects Indigenous communities, families and individuals.