How did treaties affect Aboriginal communities? How did terra nullius affect the Aboriginals? How did Western colonialism affect Wanjiku's life? How did colonizers benefit from imperialism? How did smallpox impact Indigenous people in the U.S.?
To the Aboriginal people, however, this was their land. Where they had once lived under their own rule they were now forced to accept the laws of the newcomers. The newcomers had not been invited and they were generally not welcomed. The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
However, applied without consideration of cross-cultural and social factors, using sport and recreation to promote health and development could be perceived as culturally inappropriate, or worse an insidious form of colonisation (Darnell, 2007). In a review of the role of sport and recreation in ...
The wellbeing of EldersFootnote2is a core priority of the DEG, underpinning and intersecting with their other core priorities. The DEG activities are aimed at (a) improving the economic, social, and environmental wellbeing of Aboriginal people in Walgett (b) maintaining the independence and the ...
, Professor Nakata describes the importance of Indigenous star knowledge in developing sustainable practices to manage our collective future:The stars teach us how we should be looking after the planet.Why not look after it using the teachings of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
The livelihoods of indigenous peoples, custodians of the world’s forests since time immemorial, were eroded as colonial powers claimedde jurecontrol over their ancestral lands. The continuation of European land regimes in Africa and Asia meant that the withdrawal of colonial powers did not bring ab...
Aboriginal people are believed to have lived in Australia for over 65,000 years and have the world’s oldest continuing culture. Their deep connections to country, family and community have remained strong despite the impact of colonisation on individual and collective health and wellbeing [1,2]...