SS6H4 Explain the impact of English colonization on current Aboriginal basic rights health literacy and language Original Owners of Uluru and keeping traditions alive The Anangu people are the ID: 747704
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Aboriginal People and European Settlement
SS6H4: Explain the impact of English colonization on current Aboriginal basic rights, health, literacy, and language.Slide2
Original Owners of Uluru and keeping traditions alive
The
Anangu
people are the
traditional owners of Uluru and the surrounding lands.
They believe
it's their job to protect this sacred place.
When
European explorers saw Uluru around 150 years ago, they claimed ownership of it and renamed it Ayers Rock
.
Click here to watch about the
Anangu
.
Click
here to watch how traditions are kept alive
.Slide3
Who are the Aborigines?
T
he
Aborigines, Australia’s original human
inhabitants, migrated
to the continent around 40,000 to 60, 000 years ago. The Aborigines had a nomadic hunter-gatherer way of life. They created the earliest boomerangs, digeridoos, as well as a primitive form of rock art. Slide4
The Secret of DreamingSlide5
European contact
The
first British colony in Australia was established at Botany Bay, near present-day Sydney.
Superior
weaponry and spreading of
disease, like smallpox decimated the Aboriginal population.Even though there was European contact with Australia in 1606,
Captain James Cook of England in1770 claimed the continent for the British Crown. Slide6
SmallPox
Smallpox was one of the most deadly diseases in history, let alone Australia.
Smallpox was a new disease which Aborigines had no protection from.
It is estimated that over half of the indigenous people of Australia died due to smallpox.Slide7
Why Australia?
James Cook claimed Australia in After the American Independence, Britain had to send their prisoners somewhere.
Britain began to send them to New South Wales.
Australia remained a prison colony until 1868.Slide8
Aborignial way of life
After European contact, Aboriginal way of life was changed forever.
Once
the dominant people of Australia, the Aborigines today account for less than 3% of the total
population.
English has become the dominant language of the continent; only around 48,000 people speak an indigenous language in Australia today.Aboriginal peoples were not granted voting rights until 1965 and were not even counted as part of the national census until 1967Slide9
Quality of life for current aborigines
Aboriginal
life expectancy is, on average, ten years lower than for non-Aborigines.
They
suffer higher levels of crime, health problems,
literacy rate, and educational under-achievement.It is getting better, but it is still a struggle which is why Australia has a national Sorry Day.