Aboriginal Australians - Black response to white dominance 1788 – 1980

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

11/18/2008

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Modern history

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Summary :

Introduction.
1. A story of two migrations.
2. Comparing the plight of the Aborigines to the situations in other societies.
The current hypothesis.
1. Aborigines came to Australia from the Southeast Asian continent.
2. Tribes and the division of labor in them.
The British ships that made first contact with the Aborigines.
Subjective value judgment - the British seemed uncivilized upon arriving at Port Jackson.
The British-Aborigine conflict.
1. British settlers - hardened criminals.
2. Preconceived notion of Aborigines.
3. Land as an issue.
4. The duty on Australian wool.
5. The breech-loading repeating rifle.
6. European diseases.
A similar fate for the Ainu.
Coranderrk reservation.
Exploitation of the Ainu and its similarites to that of the Aborigine.
Conclusion.

Abstract

It seems that a sad hallmark of indigenous peoples is their oppression and systematic elimination at the hands of foreigners. The Native American marginally survives today after centuries of conflict with Europeans. The Ainu of Japan were nearly entirely wiped out by half a millennium of oppression at the hands of the mainland Japanese. So it is with the Aborigines of Australia, who would face a fate most similar to that of the Native Americans, again, at the hands of Europeans. The landing of the first Europeans on the Australian continent would prove to be a fateful one: one which would forever change the existing society of the Aborigines. Until that first arrival in 1788, the Aborigines had held a monopoly on the continent; they were the only human inhabitants of the island. This paper is an exploration of the Aborigines: their history, their culture, and the violent collision of cultures that occurred beginning in 1788. Their history is inextricably linked with the arrival of the first Europeans on the Australian continent during that year. The year marked the first arrivals; they would increase steadily from then on. Thus, in actuality, this paper is a story of two migrations: that of the Aborigines across Australia, and that of the British into Australia.