Indigenous Australia For Kids For Dummies

Foreword by Cathy Freeman xi Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: An Ancient People: Then and Now 5 Chapter 1: Understanding Indigenous Australia 7 Indigenous Cultures: Then and Now 8 There Goes the Neighbourhood 11 Fighting Back 13 New Problems for an Old Culture 16 Doing It for Ourselves 18 Chapter 2: Rich Past, Strong Traditions 19 The First Australians 20 65,000 Years of Tradition 21 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations Today 24 A Note about the Torres Strait Islands 30 Saying G’Day 32 Opening an Event: Welcome to Country 34 Defining the Identity of an Aboriginal Person or a Torres Strait Islander 37 Chapter 3: A Land of Cultural Diversity 43 Exploring the Indigenous Relationship to Land 44 Celebrating Cultural Diversity 46 Kinship and Totemic Systems 49 Talking Languages 52 Coming Together 56 Maintaining Links to Traditional Country 58 Chapter 4: Traditional Cultural Values and Practices 63 Going Back to the Dreamtime 64 Indigenous Worldviews 68 Living with Nature 71 Looking to the Skies 79 Controlling the Environment 80 Modern Cultural Values 82 Caring for Country 84 Part 2: Invasion 85 Chapter 5: First Contacts 87 Looking for the Unknown Southern Land: Contact before 1770 88 Landing in Australia: Cook’s Arrival 91 Establishing a British Colony 95 Seeing through Indigenous Eyes: Perspectives on the Arrival 95 Chapter 6: The Brits’ First Colony: 1788 97 Captain Phillip and the First Fleet 98 Starting a Penal Colony 100 Seeing How the Locals Dealt with the New Arrivals 104 Chapter 7: The Loss of People and the Land 113 Opening Up the Land: White Settlement Spreads 114 Spreading Disease Far and Wide 114 Meeting Aboriginal Resistance 115 Growing the British Colony 120 Dealing with Frontier Conflict 127 Ignoring Prior Ownership: No Treaties 138 Chapter 8: Taking the Children 141 Examining the Ideology of Assimilation 142 Rules for the Removal Policy 146 Acknowledging the Stolen Generations 150 Unfinished Business: Reparations and Compensation 156 Part 3: Indigenous Activism 165 Chapter 9: Citizenship Rights and a Referendum 167 Early Claims to Better Treatment 168 British Subjects, but Not Quite 173 Leaving Indigenous People Out of the Constitution 177 War Heroes: Frontier Wars and Beyond 180 Still Denied Equality 185 Not Taking It Lying Down 187 Steps towards Equality 190 The Freedom Ride 190 The Referendum is Announced 194 Chapter 10: From Apology to Uluru 199 A New Government — A New Era? 200 The Intervention Continues 204 Finding a National Voice 209 Part 4: Contemporary Indigenous Cultures 215 Chapter 11: Indigenous People and Sport 217 A (Traditional) Sporting Life 218 Playing Them at Their Own Games 222 Slipping on the Whites: Cricket 224 Stepping Up in the Boxing Ring 227 We Love Our Footy! 232 Track and Field 246 Championing Other Sports 248 Chapter 12: More Than Rocks and Dots: Indigenous Art 255 Understanding the Role of Art in Indigenous Cultures 256 Looking at Indigenous Art around Australia 260 Examining Torres Strait Islander Art 269 Thinking about Urban Indigenous Art 271 Indigenous Art as a Means to an Economic End 276 Chapter 13: Singing and Dancing 281 Traditional Expression through Music and Dance 282 Carrying a Tune: Contemporary Indigenous Music 286 Jumping into Modern Indigenous Dance 297 Chapter 14: Indigenous Literature: We’ve Always Been Storytellers 305 Moving from Oral to Written Traditions 306 Writing about the ‘Aborigine’ in Australian Literature 307 Establishing Indigenous Literature 313 Not Putting Your Foot in It! 317 Chapter 15: Performance Storytelling: Film, Theatre and Television 321 Acting the Part: Indigenous People and the World of Films 322 Taking Over the Camera 329 Treading the Black Boards 338 Appearing on Mainstream Screens 344 Part 5: Dealing with Current Issues 359 Chapter 16: Closing the Gap and the Way Forward 361 Looking Back at Past Government Policies 362 Closing the Gap Reboot 367 Examining Health Issues 370 Looking at Housing Problems 372 Learning about Education Issues 375 Working on Employment Problems 383 No New Stolen Generations: Keeping Indigenous Children with Their Families 388 Chapter 17: Doing It for Ourselves 391 Self-Determination: More Than a Principle 391 Groups for Self-Representation 392 Working within the Existing Process 395 Part 6: The Part of Tens 399 Chapter 18: Ten Important Indigenous Cultural Sites 401 Uluru, Northern Territory 401 Kata Tjuta, Northern Territory 402 Nitmiluk, Northern Territory 402 Windjana Gorge, Western Australia 403 Daintree Rainforest, North Queensland 403 Mungo National Park, New South Wales 404 Yeddonba, Victoria 404 Ngaut Ngaut, South Australia 405 Wybalenna, Tasmania 405 The Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra 405 Chapter 19: Ten Indigenous Firsts 407 The First Indigenous Australian to Visit Great Britain: 1793 407 The First Indigenous Cricket Team Tour: 1868 408 The First Indigenous ‘Pop Star’: 1963 409 The First Indigenous Person to Be Australian of the Year: 1968 409 The First Indigenous Person to Be Elected to the Australian Parliament: 1971 410 The First Indigenous Lawyer: 1976 410 The First Indigenous Person to Make a Feature Film: 1992 411 The First Indigenous Surgeon: 2006 412 The First Indigenous Senior Council (SC): 2015 412 The First Indigenous Minister for Indigenous Australians: 2019 413 Chapter 20: Ten Myths about Indigenous People 415 ‘Indigenous People Have a Problem with Alcohol’ 415 ‘Indigenous People Are Dying Out’ 416 ‘Indigenous People Who Live in Urban Areas Have Lost Their Culture’ 416 ‘Indigenous People Were Killed Off in Tasmania’ 416 ‘Indigenous People Are Addicted to Welfare’ 417 ‘Too Much Money is Spent on Indigenous People’ 417 ‘Real Indigenous People Live in Remote Areas’ 418 ‘Indigenous Groups Don’t Handle Money Well’ 419 ‘Indigenous Culture is Violent’ 419 ‘Indigenous Self-Determination Has Been Tried but It Has Failed’ 419 Glossary 421 Index 427