How indigenous people of Australia lost their land and culture. You need to write about the indigenous people of Australia.
How indigenous people of Australia lost their land and culture
Indigenous people
You need to write on the indigenous people of Australia (not any other country) and the loss of their land and culture as well as the importance behind their kinship within Australia.
Contextual factors
At the time of European colonization, an estimated 320,000 Indigenous people lived in Australia, the majority living in the southeast, and in the Murray River valley and its tributaries (ABS 2002). Colonization severely disrupted Aboriginal society and economy – an epidemic disease caused an immediate loss of life, and the occupation of land by settlers and the restriction of Aboriginal people to ‘reserves’ disrupted their ability to support themselves. Over time, this combination of factors had such an impact that by the 1930s only an estimated 80,000 Indigenous people remained in Australia (Smith 1980).
Colonization is recognized as having a fundamental impact on the disadvantage and poor health of Indigenous peoples worldwide, through social systems that maintain disparities (see, for example, Paradies 2016; Paradies & Cunningham 2012). Indigenous Australians experience disadvantages in almost all measures of health and welfare when compared with non-Indigenous Australians; this disparity has become known as ‘the Gap’.
Cultural factors – such as connection to Country and caring for Country, knowledge, and beliefs, language, self-determination, family and kinship, and cultural expression – can be protective, and positively influence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s health and wellbeing (Bourke et al. 2018). In contrast, racism or racial discrimination and the legacy of colonization are associated with poorer physical and mental health (Paradies 2006; Priest et al. 2011; Paradies 2016).
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