Essays on Aborigine

Rabbit Proof Fence (2002): Three young native women are kidnapped by the Australian government and sent to boarding school but they escape and travel across Australia to return home.

Introduction

In 1770, the British settled into Australia and took note or gave no status to the native Aborigines. The natives were dispossessed of their land and became the Indigenous people of Australia. There were no rights given to them or treaties enacted considering their status as natives. The Aborigines were hunter gatherers with no permanent dwelling grouped together with kin. The British had no respect for these natives and ...

The famous aboriginal personality whom I have chosen for the assessment on aboriginal personalities is David Unaipon. David Ngunaitponi or David Unaipon as he later came to be known as was born on 28 September, 1872 at Raukkan Mission in the Coorong region of South Australia. Being the fourth of the nine children of his parents James and Nymbulda Ngunaitponi, Unaipon started formal education at 7 from Point McLeay Mission School.

After being forced to leave school at the age of 13 he was then forced to work as a bootmaker. But, after his marriage to Katherine Carter, a Tangane woman ...

1. Rabbit Proof Fence, is a true story of three girls, Molly (14 years old), Daisy (8 years old), and their cousin Gracie (10 years old) from Jigalong, a place nearby the Rabbit Proof Fence, is set in the early 1930’s. The movie portrays the condition of aborigine (half-caste) children where they are snatched forcibly from their families against their wish to work for the white families that assured them a prosperous life. Mr.Neville is the responsible person to find and transport these half-castes to the camps to get rid of the future of Aborigines. As per the federal law, he ...

Rabbit Proof Fence, a film that moves the souls of human beings is a real life heartbreaking story of three little girls set in the 1930’s that shows how the aborigine children were taken against their will from Jigalong and made to work for white families as servants or maids. Rabbit-Proof Fence provides a fundamental illustration of Australian aboriginal children and women as victims, and the government viewing them as passive with no individuality or culture. The concept of empowerment in culture is well defined by Banet-Weiser (Reading Popular Culture through Feminism, May 28 2013) where they argue that the emphasis ...

In The Economic, Social, Spiritual and Political Spheres of Aboriginal Life

In The Economic, Social, Spiritual and Political Spheres of Aboriginal Life Reciprocity is an underlying principle expressed throughout Aboriginal societies. The first thing to recognize when considering any aspect of Australian Aboriginal Society is that this is not one single social group but rather a society interwoven by more than five hundred social groups. Many attributes of each society are different from group to group. There are different languages, life styles, customs, and practices. There are certain core beliefs and customs that do cross the continent and appear universal. Reciprocity is a learned behavior. This is easy to see when ...

“Rabbit Proof Fence,” a movie based on true events, highlights the shocking fact behind 1930s Australia. It portrays the racist policy that permitted the forcible separation of half-caste or mixed-race, aborigine children from their families. Special internment camps were established across the Australian continent to prevent aborigine children from supposedly harming themselves. They are trained as domestic workers for integration later on to the white Australian society. The film features the dramatic story about three (3) young aboriginal girls – Molly (Sampi), Daisy (Sansbury) and Gracie (Monaghan). Having been forcibly separated from their families, like most of the “Stolen Generations,” ...

Australian Aboriginal Groups

The Aboriginal groups of Australia have long endured a painful struggle to maintain their ways of life since the arrival of The First Fleet. The Aboriginal (a word meaning first) people of Australia may well be the world’s first people as tools discovered in South Wales in 1971 proved that humans appeared in Australia at least twelve thousand years before similar human artifacts have been found in Europe. It can then be estimated that before the First Fleet arrived in Australia there were 18, 500 generations of Aboriginal people. These people are believed to have evolved into a way of living ...

Good morning/afternoon, I will speak on the contentious and barbaric issue about the stolen generation. I call it barbaric with regard to the manner in which the practice was carried out by the regime of that period. Who were the stolen generation and why were they stolen? The period between 1910 and 1970 saw hundreds of thousands of aborigine children being forcibly taken away from their families. These children who mostly below the age of five and as old as 14, were ferried away to distant lands, lands which they had no idea about and to cultures which ...