History Aboriginal Art
Posted in aboriginal art on 07/26/2008 11:22 am by admin
Is This Called Anything? Also…?
http://selencexvamp122.deviantart.com/art/Snowflake-155088866
I was bored outta my mind procrastinating so I would up playing around on the computer. I turned a picture of me into this ^^^
also…
for my history project what should it be?
I decided to do Aboriginal Australia (or Aborginial people vs. Europe society)
but I need something to compare and contrast to or pro/and con
I think compare and contrast would be easier for this topic…
If you have time, read the historical novel “The Timeless Land” by Eleanor Dark.
The English brought their convicts to Australia, and took over the best land; but they didn’t use the knowledge that the Aboriginal People had been using for more than 40,000 years to survive here.
They brought their domestic animals instead of eating kangaroo – a healthy lean meat which was freely available to anyone. Then they considered it theft – a crime for which the death penalty applied in those days – if an Aboriginal person took a sheep to eat.
They introduced alcohol, flour, sugar, rabbits, foxes (to hunt!), blackberries and (inadvertently) brought diseases like Measles, to which the native people had no immunity.
They dressed up friendly natives in white man’s clothes and even sent two of them as curiosities to England. One didn’t survive and the other (Bennelong) became an alcoholic.
Aboriginal stockmen contributed greatly to Australia’s wealth but were not paid money.
Because there was a shortage of European women, men fathered children by Aboriginal women but a kind of apartheid existed where mixed marriages weren’t recognised.
Later, children of these unions were taken from their mothers and put into institutions to be trained as domestic servants.
Aboriginal men who fought in the First World War were not given the same assistance when they returned to Australia as white men.
In all, white men thought that they were superior to black men, when in fact they had a different culture and more powerful weapons.
Our present Prime Minister made a formal apology to the “Stolen Generation” who were taken away from their mothers and put into institutions. This was a very emotional time in our recent history.
Aboriginal people proved that they could excel in white man’s skills. One famous man, Aboriginal writer and inventor David Unaipon, born in 1872, is on our $50 note.
’60 minutes’ interview with Elizabeth Durack,1997: part 1
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