Articles related to "Aborigine"

As in many ancient Creation stories, the Aboriginal myth details a sequence that begins with the coming of light and ends with the formation of male and female.

The Australian aborigines have traditionally used native plants for many things; uses of plants included food, medicine, tools, weapons, food utensils and art objects.

Aborigines and Greens both have a strong environmental focus in activism. But are conservationists in reality serving a colonial agenda when it comes to land rights?

In Australia a free trade agreement with the United States means bad news for Aboriginal communities, just as it was for First Nations in Mexico, Chile and Canada.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues an apology to the 'stolen generation', those Indigenous Australians affected by the misguided policies of previous governments

Genetic science, while having the potential to support social justice for Indigenous people, is often compromised by racist agendas grounded in Eugenics - Nazi ideology.

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.

The Tarahumara have retained a traditional lifestyle and resisted colonisation over three and a half centuries of European contact. Now tourism threatens their existence.

Was Australia's first Governor, by empirical definition and his own admission, a terrorist? And how does our current government compare?

According to Australian Aboriginal culture, all living things were created by ancient spirit ancestors. These stories of creation are known as the Dreamtime, or Dreaming.

Melbourne is a great city for museum-lovers, boasting many museums which are free of charge. Below are the best of Melbourne's free museums for those on a budget.

Guest writer article from Nanette Croce, at Suite 101's Aboriginal History section.

John Pilger is an Australian journalist renowned for championing human rights, and in his lecture described how Australian silence has created an apartheid-like state.

Australian aboriginal didgeridoo playing can improve moderate obstructive sleep apnea symptoms by strengthening the airways and reducing sleep disturbances.

Gran Canaria's most famous monument, the cave houses of Guayadeque, will keep the kids amused for hours and give them a hands on, live lesson in history.

There are many species of eucalyptus trees native to Australia; the eucalyptus tree has been used traditionally by the aborigine people but today has other uses too.

An Australian perspective on Nanette Croce's article, Aboriginal Wannabes. How is it that Aborigines can be so hated and so idealised simultaneously?

Australia Day is celebrated every year on January 26 but for many Australians, it commemorates the day Aboriginal people were culturally and geographically displaced.

Indigenous people the world over have a tough time reclaiming native lands, even through freehold title. Check out this story from Mongolia's aborigines.

Courtroom language is culturally biased and aggressively colonial, alienating Indigenous defendants from mainstream justice and law.

The koala has large fluffy ears, a spoon-nose and bright button eyes. Historically, it has been a victim of 'progress' and the fur trade, but is now an endangered species

Australian Nobel Prize-winning fiction writer Patrick White, who died in 1990, possessed a brilliance for language that suggests film is a limited medium.

'Tis said British colonizers taking possession of some remote part of the world on behalf of their sovereign first planted a Union Jack - and then set up a cricket pitch!

Ride the world's longest single chairlift. Swim in the naturally formed basin. View magnificent gardens and wildlife. Hike the Tasmanian bushland; enjoy a sumptuous meal.

Mining giant Santos is ripping off the Wangkumarra people and destroying the land through petroleum mining and "seismic line" exploration techniques.

At the end of the Dreaming, spirit ancestors returned to the earth creating landforms and symbolic sites that remain an integral part of Aboriginal culture.

How Japan's quest for modernity and uniformity has almost eradicated the Ainu peoples of the Hokkaido.

An Australian stamp commemorating the Bunyip, which resembles the extinct diprotodon, as an animal of natural history, implies it existed at one time.

Day long tracks at Carnarvon Gorge lead walkers to spectacular sandstone rock features, extensive Aboriginal paintings and a wide variety of fauna and flora.

Uluru, Kata Tjuta, The Pinnacles and the Twelve Apostles aren't the only strange natural phenomena you can visit if you travel on holiday to the island continent.

Eight years on from the 1998 Aboriginal delegation to Britain, and has anything changed? Sure! It's worse!

Efforts to acknowledge the truth about the Aboriginal holocaust are always dismissed as "black armband history".

Oldman Namatjira was an internationally renowned artist who lived under racist local laws making him an illegal alien on his own land. Still had to pay taxes though.

Set in Darwin, Australia, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman fall in love despite their differences and the ravages of World War II.

Colonial homophobia marginalised homosexual and transgender Aborigines. But intolerance was never part of traditional life, as seen in the story of the Tiwi Sistergirls.

Aborigines have the right to self-identify as Indigenous, reclaiming lost identities. But in the public domain, can this damage Aboriginal collective identity?

Excerpt from Agrafena Sopotshina's speech, "We Live On What The Earth Carries On Itself", examining how the Khanti construct Aboriginality.

Dr. E.W. Brandes and his team ventured into unexplored jungles of New Guinea in 1929 on an expedition to find new disease-resistant varieties of sugar cane.

Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, persons with albinism were exhibited in sideshows and dime museums with other freaks and human oddities.

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.

Formerly held by aboriginal people in Australia's north-central region, today Kakadu Park is known as one of the world's richest sites for aboriginal rock art.

Rodney Liddell is a famous and highly regarded author in Queensland, Australia. His popular book "Savage Frontier" attacks Indigenous identity and claim to the land.

Exploring international indigenous genocide, specifically regarding the similarities between American and Australian Aboriginal holocausts.

Tyson Yunkaporta, Aboriginal Rights, examines common themes between Australian and American Aboriginal massacres

Moreton Island is a 200 square kilometre sand island that, with Stradbroke Island, is the protective buffer that forms Moreton Bay, in southern Queensland, Australia.

Australian Aboriginal art encompasses two major regional styles, both united by certain themes and meanings harkening back to ancient ancestral myths.

The World Health Organization has issued a warning that there will only be about half the needed doses of H1N1 vaccine available.

A Great Barrier Reef island north of Cairns, surrounded by white sand beaches cascading into fringing coral gardens

The harrowing story of Millicent, an Aboriginal child labelled "half-caste" and taken from her family by the Aboriginal Protection Board then repeatedly sexually abused.

Answering some FAQ's about personal identity and duality in Indigenous and non-Indigenous contexts, especially the impact of the "mixed race" myth on Aboriginal heritage.