Articles related to "Aborigines"



Aborigines and Conservationism
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?
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Aborigines and Free Trade
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.
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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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Tarahumara Aborigines
The Tarahumara have retained a traditional lifestyle and resisted colonisation over three and a half centuries of European contact. Now tourism threatens their existence.
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Terrorist Attack on Aborigines
Was Australia's first Governor, by empirical definition and his own admission, a terrorist? And how does our current government compare?
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A Century After Independence: What Is Australia's Legacy?
Does the date 26 January 1901 hold any significance to you? If you are Australian, it should. Get ready to throw your boomarangs and down a few pints of Foster's! It is the 100th anniversary of Australian independence.
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Australia - My Country
Overview of Australian history and culture.
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Nhawaa Yiyi Ngumbaarngay: Australian Aboriginal Languages
Online resources reveal the dynamism of Australia's Aboriginal cultures.
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Setting the Scene – Aboriginal Heritage
This article outlines the formation of the Australian continent, and its original inhabitants. It also outlines a brief description of their lives and customs.
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Aboriginal Wannabes
Guest writer article from Nanette Croce, at Suite 101's Aboriginal History section.
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Ainu Who?
The Ainu are forgotten aborigines of the Land of the Rising Sun? Find them in their folklore and folklife.
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THE STORY OF MARY BRYANT - PART III
Continuation of the story of Mary Bryant, after the arrival in Sydney Cove in the new colony of New South Wales.
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The Tribal Fetish
An Australian perspective on Nanette Croce's article, Aboriginal Wannabes. How is it that Aborigines can be so hated and so idealised simultaneously?
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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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Wangkumarra, Native Title, Mining
Mining giant Santos is ripping off the Wangkumarra people and destroying the land through petroleum mining and "seismic line" exploration techniques.
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Modernity and Environmentalism Part I
Even the most "primitive" societies had some impact on the environment. It is unrealistic to think that the general population will give up modern comforts for the sake of the environment.
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Dreamtime
The Aboriginal people of Australia have a culture that goes back several thousand years, to the Dreamtime, which is in danger of being lost. "The Dreamtime is always and never, a time that never was and is always happening. It is the force that spiritually maintains the world and has to be constantly recreated through ritual, meditation, and prayer if the world, the clan and the self are to be renewed" (Jean Houston).
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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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The Mexico Interview (Part Two)
The concluding half of the legendary "Mexico Interview" - a discussion between poets, Billy Marshall Stoneking and Charles Hasty, concerning oral tradition, Aboriginal culture and the influence of Australian performance poetry.
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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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Aboriginal Rights Delegation
Eight years on from the 1998 Aboriginal delegation to Britain, and has anything changed? Sure! It's worse!
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Black Armband History
Efforts to acknowledge the truth about the Aboriginal holocaust are always dismissed as "black armband history".
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Indigenous Homosexuality
Colonial homophobia marginalised homosexual and transgender Aborigines. But intolerance was never part of traditional life, as seen in the story of the Tiwi Sistergirls.
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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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Siberian Indigenous Recovery
Excerpt from Agrafena Sopotshina's speech, "We Live On What The Earth Carries On Itself", examining how the Khanti construct Aboriginality.
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Film Review: <i>Romper Stomper </i>(1992)

HOW DIFFERING CULTURES HELPED MAKE AUSTRALIA WHAT IT IS TODAY
An overview of how different groups of immigrants have brought their cultures to Australia and the changes the has brought. The major groups of immigrants and their contributions will be dealt with in separate articles.
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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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Savage Frontier
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.
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Aboriginal Holocaust
Exploring international indigenous genocide, specifically regarding the similarities between American and Australian Aboriginal holocausts.
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Aboriginal Massacres
Tyson Yunkaporta, Aboriginal Rights, examines common themes between Australian and American Aboriginal massacres
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Boating Facts Lizard Island Aust
A Great Barrier Reef island north of Cairns, surrounded by white sand beaches cascading into fringing coral gardens
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Down Under With Australia's Wildlife
The first in a series of articles on the many endangered mammals inhabiting Australia
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IX of X: Racism, A Definition by Ester I. Jusuf
The following definition of <b>racism</b> is developed by <b>Ester Indahyani Jusuf</b>, a prominent Indonesian human rights attorney whose works and advocacies have been known worldwide. She has attended numerous international conferences on human rights, racism and discrimination, including those organized by the United Nations. Being a triple-minority herself (she is of Chinese ethnic, Christian and female), she has been representing the minorities in Indonesia to speak out to the world for years. She is the Chairperson of <b>Solidarity for The Motherland and Nation-Indonesia</b>, a respected non-profit human rights organization in Indonesia.
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Down Under With The Koala
Down Under with the cuddly Koala
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Nowhere People
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.
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Warped Mind or Genius
As a Science Fiction writer or hopefully Author do other people look upon you as eccentric, maybe a little warped or genius for your writing style and content.
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Aboriginal Media Portrayals
Negative representation of Aborigines in the media has been identified as a major cause of prejudice against Indigenous peoples in Australia.
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Argentina's Kolla Native Title
The Kolla, whose sovereignty has never been broken, whose Native Title is part of Argentina's constitution, still only have provisional Aboriginal Land Rights.
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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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Taiwan Aboriginal Rights
The west doesn't hold the monopoly on colonisation of indigenous peoples. Taiwan's aborigines suffer the same ravages of invasion as other first nations around the world.
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Romantic Invaders Part 1
This article examines the way English Romanticism has played a part in the colonisation of the Australian landscape.
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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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Aboriginal Media Hoax
Australian politicians are constantly being caught out in their lies and outrageous claims against the Aboriginal community, and yet the propaganda continues.
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Aboriginal Rights And The Church
Has the church, since playing an historical part in the loss of Aboriginal language and culture, now become an ally in the struggle for Aboriginal rights?
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Australia On UN's Black List
Since 1999, the Australian Government has been on CERD's agenda of urgent business, but the government has categorically failed to acknowledge this.
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Berbers, Tuareg, or Imazighen?
Assimilation of indigenous Imazighen in places like Algeria has disastrous results. But outsider definitions and labels can be equally damaging.
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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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Frog Totems
Totems are found in many cultures and belief systems around the world. Discover the mystical power of the frog and learn how to harness its power.
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Israeli Native Title
Israel has the most successful and openly supported Native Title claim in the world. They get to be colonists and natives simultaneously!
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