Stolen Generations

„Stolen Generations“ call all the young Aboriginal people, who were stolen by the Australian government between 1907 and 1969. From the stolen children are the most half-caste children, one parent white, one Aborigine. The children are stolen because the government want to assimilate them with the white people. Assimilate means the “connecting” of ethic groups. In the most Australian federations were “Aboriginal Protection Acts” enacted, which establish the base for the removal of the children.

After this were some children removed from their families, tearing out from the arms from their mother. The government said, that the children were ill-handled from their parents, but the children weren't it. They gave them in homes and to adoption for white families, to gave them a life in the white society. In 1997 were the National Sorry Day instituted. In 2007 it gives a first judgment, and Bruce Trevorrow get a compensation from 525000 Australian Dollars. At the 13^th February 2008 said the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in a speech sorry to the Aborigines.

Sources:  http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestohlene_Generationen

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations

Dreaming of Aboriginal people

The dreaming or dreamtime explains the unwritten laws of the aborigines it is also the explanation of the development of the earth not like other think it is a dream like in sleeping that is a wrong translation from the aboriginal speak to English. Every entity or thing has his origin in the dreaming. The dreamtime is the time which is also called “proper reality”. The dreamtime is told by stories which tell how the birds get their colours or how the landscape was formed it covers many themes and topics of the world. This stories are only by word of mouth. The dreaming is also the law which the Aborigines live. The dreamtime is the time before individual live and after individual live. The Aborigines think that every person goes after his live into this eternally dreaming as a soul. This souls was also there before everything else was there.

My source was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumzeit

History of the aborigines

The flag of the Aborigines

The Aborigines are humans, who come 40.000 years ago from Asia with boats to Australia. They are not a integrative folk, but split into many clans. They lived as hunter-gatherers until the White people come. In 1788 the white people come to Australia. They have peaceful contact with Aborigines. Many Aborigines died of influenza. As a result of the diseases and massacres the 1 million Aborigines were nothing but 60.000. The government give them land where they can live. At the end of the 19th century the Christians tried to crusade the Aborigines. They taught them the religion and medics and gave them schools. In the 20th century were the stolen generations. And 1997 the government exclaim the National Sorry Day.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aborigines

Facts about the Aborigines:

Source is http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aborigines

The population of the aborigines is only 464.000. Three quarter of this people live in cities.

The aborigines are one of the poorest people in Australia. Mainly the Aborigines, who live in the rural environment, are very poor. The unemployment rate is about 20% in this area, the lifespan is lower, the education isn’t good and the infant mortality rate is high. They are only 4% of the population of Australia, but about 20% of the prison inmates.

Feeding

The aborigines are hunter-gatherers and aborigines, who live at the coast or at rivers, are fishermen. They aren’t farmers. Two tribes in the state Victoria had an eel-farm.

The natural food from the aborigines is kangaroos, emus, wombats, snakes and birds. In the desert they eat insects like the honey-ant. Aborigines, who live near the ocean, eat clams and crustaceans. Besides they eat nuts, fruits and berries.

The primary instrument to hunt was the spear. Sometimes they use boomerangs.

The aborigines aren’t cannibals. It’s only a rumor, a misunderstanding of the funeral rituals of the aborigines.

They lived in simple huts or shelters which were built with twigs or bark. Permanent huts made of branches, tree bark, grass and reeds were built only for longer stays. The camp could not be entered by members of other tribes, unless they were invited. If a messenger was sent to another tribe, he had to wait with some distance, until he received permission to come closer.

By Teresa L.

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