Articles related to "Aboriginal"



False Protocols
Non-Indigenous workers entering Indigenous communities should follow local protocols. However, often they are given "gammon protocol" based on colonial mythologies.
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Definition of Aboriginal
The myth of race has long dominated definitions of Aboriginality in Australia, impacting on the plethora of Aboriginal policies that continue to marginalise our peoples.
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Reframing Genocide
The Australian government and media are now trying to reframe native genocide and human rights abuses as being caused by Aboriginal culture and "self-governance".
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The End For White Autonomy
European Australians have been deemed incapable of deciding their own destinies in light of a leaked Child Rape Dossier.
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Lubicon Cree Aborigines
When it comes to Aboriginal rights, colonial governments need not adhere to their own laws, as you can see in the neo-colonial invasion of the Cree.
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Nhawaa Yiyi Ngumbaarngay: Australian Aboriginal Languages
Online resources reveal the dynamism of Australia's Aboriginal cultures.
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Native Quarantine Law
Part of Aboriginal Sovereignty is the right to impose native quarantine to stem the onslaught of foreign invaders (plants, I mean!)
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Secret English Myth
The myth of one Black culture and one White culture is a myth fueled by greed, fostered by ignorance and carried by language. This language hides a monocultural agenda.
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The Ainu of Japan: The History, Culture, and Discrimination Against this Aboriginal Group
After years of discrimination and forced assimilation policies the Ainu culture is precariously close to extinction. It wasn't until 1991 that the Japanese government admitted that they were a distict ethnic minority. Still today, it is the perception of most of the Japanese people, and the position of the government, that there is no ethnic problem in Japan.
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Aboriginal Humour
Colonists retaining Indigenous place names for towns are not always thrilled to find out what the Aboriginal language words actually mean...
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Bumper Sticker Rage
A "Stolen Wages" bumper sticker can endanger your life in Australia. The government stole 500 million in Aboriginal wages, and the public is angry. At whom? The victims!
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Child Rape Dossier
Anti-Aboriginal propaganda, replete with graphic descriptions of child rape, have reached the UK. Let's critically examine words and images from an article in The Times.
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Aboriginal And Macassan Traders
The myth of "first contact". Europeans were the last in Australia. International relations were established with Asia long before, between scholars, traders and farmers.
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Aboriginal Health Shame
Is Indigenous ill-health a resource cultivated by an exploitative Aboriginal health service industry? Or is it the bigotry of health workers that keeps us sick?
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Aboriginal Structured Violence
All we need is a great big... knife fight! The benefits of structured social violence in Indigenous societies in comparison to more chaotic "civilised" violence.
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Aboriginal Synergy
Yin and Yang, Combinance Theory, Ganma, Dialectic - it's all one and the same. Opposites create, not destroy. But Western binary oppositions would have it otherwise...
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Media and Marginal Communities- Folklore II
This is the Fourth article in the series of articles devoted to use of various media for development. It give the readers a chance to surf the net on this topic so that they can ponder upon the role of folklore and its study for effective communication and for the development of the community..
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Nahentah! Cree
An aboriginal language meets the millennium head-on.
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Native Spirit
Native American Herbal Medicine
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Sally Morgan - Aboriginal Artist
A suggested outline for a critical analysis of Sally Morgan's silkscreen print "Taken Away." The work evokes a feeling of searching for a sense of identity and place.
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The Natives, Religion, and Jesus
John W. Friesen argues that Aboriginal Spirituality and Christianity are "Closer Than You Think."
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Barbecue Bison Burgers
For all the holidays coming up in both Canada and the United States try something truly North American, bison meat.
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Costner Complex
Outsiders entering Indigenous communities may harbour ego needs and secret fantasies of a Dances With Wolves nature. A harmless delusion, or destructive psychosis?
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Syndrome X
The myth of Aboriginal genetic difference is being made reality through malnutrition, resulting in a plague of Syndrome X.
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The US/Canada Border
The influence of European settlers to Aboriginals along the US-Canadian Border
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The Power of the Song - Part 2
The last part of Billy Marshall Stoneking's article concerning the making of his best-selling book of poems, <I>Singing the Snake</I>.
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We Finally Hit The Red Center
Our Trip through the Out Back to Alice Springs finally reaches it's climax. We explore some of the spectacular sights of Central Australia.
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Biological Invasion
Western society is destroying itself through environmental mismanagement. Land rights, enabling Indigenous stewardship, represent the only chance for economic survival.
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English Speaks Us
A disturbing quote from a school principal makes us question the "neutrality" of language, especially in Indigenous education contexts. Does English equal colonialism?
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Indigenous Intellectual Property
Indigenous knowledge systems are hot property in the global marketplace, heralding a new age of colonisation through the new "papal bull" of Intellectual Property Rights.
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Native Right To Self-Identify
Aborigines have the right to self-identify as Indigenous, reclaiming lost identities. But in the public domain, can this damage Aboriginal collective identity?
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Nunavut--Canada's Newest Territory
On April 1, 1999 Canada's Northwest Territories officially divided and Nunavut came into existance. The new territory, one fifth of Canada, gives the indigenous Inuit as much self-rule and control of their political destiny as is perhaps posible for any people in this modern world.
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Indigenous Education Irony
We are facing a crisis in Indigenous Education that can only be resolved through Aboriginal sovereignty.
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Canadian Residential Schools
A legacy of physical and sexual abuse of Aboriginal students in religious-run residential schools has come to light in recent court cases.
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Dale Edmands, Kookamonga Square & "The New Oracy"
An examination of the "new oracy" in light of recent developments in the publication of poetry on the web.
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The Great White Guilt - <i>Jimmie Blacksmith</i>'s Cry for Freedom
Examination of the portrayal of indigenous Australians on film, using <i>The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith</i> as a case study.
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Walkabout Art
An account of the American Walkabout Tour to the United States, by one of the poets who survived it.
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Black Wedding
Learn the truth about life in Australia before the European invasion. You'll discover it's not quite the "Terra Nullius" proclaimed by invaders.
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Education Rights
Our guest writer, a Wik woman from Aurukun on Cape York, Australia, writes about her struggle for recognition of Aboriginal language in Indigenous education.
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Luxembourg Indigenousness
The indigenous Trevisi of Luxembourg were colonised by Rome 2000 years ago. Can their culturally unique descendants be described as indigenous today?
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Malaysian Penan
Catch 22. The Malaysian government has refused to grant land rights to the Sarawak Penan until they agree to settle in sedentary colonies, renouncing a nomadic lifestyle.
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Master Race Science
Here we explore the way the science of eugenics has been used to justify and popularise racial mythology.
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Mining, Environment and Poverty
Mining can cause such damage to the environment that it's irreversible. Saving our ecosystem is important to prevent pollution and poverty.
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The River Port of Goolwa
Spend some time exploring Australia's only river port and reliving a bygone era when steam powered the world.
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Multi-talented Sean Choolburra
Sean is a comedian, rap singer, dancer, storyteller, actor and hip-hop didge player. He uses these gifts to take a lively look at his Aboriginal and Australian identity.
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Sexy Pirates Of Reconciliation
Australians won't achieve reconciliation with Aboriginal people until they can stop feeling guilty. How? Let's make Prime Minister Johnny Howard look like Johnny Depp.
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Travel Facts: Broome Australia
Hovering between an aquamarine sea and the ochre desert of the Kimberley lies the charismatic beachside town of Broome.
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An Interview with Linda Spalding
An interview with writer and editor Linda Spalding, editor of the literary journal <i>Brick</i> and the partner of Michael Ondaatje, about her 1998 book <i>The Follow</i>.
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The level of punishment must strike a balance.
Special guest author Evan Spencer (saves my but again - sorry family emergency) ... With this look at the multiple methods of correctional system punishment. An intriguing and thought provoking read.
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first Indian boarding/residential school, starts a controversial program of assimilating natives into the white man's culture
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