Aborig+Australia

=Indigenous Australians=

Indigenous people since 1788
toc Timeline activity: [|Indigenous Australia timeline_humanrights.doc] Make sure to answer in full sentences and, if working on the computer, stick your work in your workbook.


 * This is a great website with a lot of useful and interesting information about Indigenous issues:
 * []
 * Information about the Stolen Generation: []

The Glogster task:
//Aim: To create an online multimedia presentation on Glogster about Indigenous rights//. Some examples here: @http://edu.glogster.com/categories/ You will be given a username and password in class. You will all produce an individual poster.

Choose from the following 5 topics:
 * 1) The history of Aboriginal Rights from 1788 - 1901 (wiki and wider internet)
 * 2) Indigenous protest in the 1920s and 1930s (txtbk pg 50)
 * 3) Indigenous Australians in the 1940s and 1950s (txtbk pg 53)
 * 4) A time of protest and change: 1960s and 1970s (txtbk pg 54)
 * 5) The Indigenous Rights movement gains pace: 1980s and 1990s (txtbk pg 58)
 * 6) (...we will do The Apology as a whole class)


 * Each Glog should contain these elements:**
 * Clearly readable texts explaining the topic
 * Cited information from your textbook (except topic 1)
 * One relevant video (no more than 3)
 * At least one audio file (music or spoken word)
 * Images which link to relevant websites.
 * At least three other links to relevant websites.
 * The overall aim of this online poster is to be informative, to allow other people to learn something about Aboriginal rights.


 * Assessment criteria:**


 * || **Excellent** || **Good** || **Acceptable** || **Incomplete** ||
 * **Information in the Glog (20)** || Information is relevant, interesting and specific. Student understands the chosen topic thoroughly. || Information is mostly relevant and specific. Student understands the chosen topic. || Information is sometimes relevant and specific, but may lapse into generalization. Student shows superficial understanding. || Information is either not relevant and specific, or incomplete. Student does not show understanding of the chosen topic. ||
 * **Creativity (10)** || Wow. Student has used a lot of creativity in the design. Glog is visually interesting and compelling. || Nice! Student has used creativity in the design. Glog is visually interesting. || OK! Student has used some creativity in the design. Glog is somewhat visually interesting but at times a bit bland. || Hmmm. Unclear that Student has used creativity in the design. Glog incomplete or unfinished. ||
 * **Attention to detail**
 * (5 points)** || Student has used correct punctuation, complete sentences, grammar and spelling. || Student has used correct punctuation, complete sentences, grammar and spelling; error does not distract. || Student has used correct punctuation, complete sentences, grammar and spelling; errors may distract from impact. || Student has not used correct punctuation, complete sentences, grammar and spelling. Errors distract from impact of glog. ||
 * **Required elements (5 points)** || Student has read the task description properly and has included all (and more) required elements. || Student has addressed the requirement but has not gone beyond that. || 1 or more elements is missing. || Students has not satisfied the task requirements. ||

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What is primitive or civilised?
Homework for Wednesday the 21st of April:

== In your workbook you need the following:
 * Homework 1 (from last lesson, time was given in class) **
 * A title page: Aboriginal Australia
 * You watched a documentary called: “The amazing tale of William Buckley” (Go to [] and click on Documentary)
 * Write three **//short//** paragraphs in your workbook about what Aboriginal life was like before white settlement according to this TV program and describe the colonialists’ attitudes towards the Aboriginal people at that time, as represented in this documentary.

Open up a Word document. From this page __http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/aborigines/xabor.html,__ pick two images (and copy these in your Word doc) :
 * Homework 2: Representations of Indigenous people **

The answers are to be written in your work book or in the Word doc, using full sentences and leaving a space between each answer. You must number each question.

For each image, answer the questions below:
 * 1) What visual evidence do they provide of aboriginal settlement/society/way of life? (Describe what you see)
 * 2) Do some of these images present Aboriginal Australians as ‘civilised’? (Describe what you think 'civilised' could mean and how this image represents that)
 * 3) From these images, what can we tell about European perceptions of aboriginal Australia and their relationship to the land?

Source of this text: @http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/wattle/abstuds2/settlement_or_invasion.htm

**Settlement or Invasion**
A rough diagram of reasons and objections made in class (using the software) :[|Invasion or settlement diagram of reasons_draft.doc]

"For generations Australians have been taught to believe the country was peacefully settled by Europeans. That is not true. No-one asked the Aboriginal people if they wanted an invasion. There was no buying of land or signing of treaties, as in New Zealand at the same time.

The British imposed their own law - they just took over, hungry for land. They drew their own maps, divided the land into housing blocks, farms and stations, then sold these to other settlers.

This was despite the official instructions to Governor Stirling from the King allowing him only to "grant unoccupied lands".

Aboriginal people were not seen to be "farming" the land. Their use and respect of the land was not understood by the white people.

Fences were built, strange animals introduced. Aboriginal people at first thought their newcomers would soon be gone; many thought their white skins meant they were returned spirits of the dead. They were welcomed, shown watercourses and given food.

When it became obvious the "visitors" had no intention of leaving or sharing, war erupted.

Because this didn't start the moment the Europeans arrived and because there were few pitched battles, the nature of the warfare was misunderstood. There were hundreds of small-scale conflicts, shootings and poisonings that were seldom reported.

One West Australian settler wrote, "We are at war with the original owners; we have never known them in any capacity but as enemies."

People were declared "outlaws", the arrested and shot or hung without trial.

The Australian frontier was marked by blood. The official instructions were clear The Aboriginal People were legally subjects of the British King and protected by law; they could not be treated as enemies of the State.

Few of the newcomers took this seriously. Aborigines speared sheep and cattle just as they'd been killing kangaroos and emus for thousands of years. They climbed over fences and entered buildings, taking whatever food was available, reasoning they were sharing their wealth and expected others to do the same.

The Europeans retaliated with force. The First Australians were labelled savages, less than humans. They were shot, whipped, poisoned, arrested, chained, transported jailed, tortured and executed."