Once the initial shock and novelty of ‘First Contact’ had subsided, the Aboriginal tribes and Colonial explorers and settlers then began that most important aspect of mankind’s cultural evolution - Trade. Tobacco, sugar, flour, axes, and clothing, in exchange for women, labour, local knowledge and access to the land.
The strong, cultural Aboriginal traditions of relating ‘white skin’ to the dead and their spirits or ghosts, meant that on First Contact, Europeans were often accepted and welcomed by the Aborigines as relatives returning from the dead.
Because the Uluru Statement is asking us to accept that Indigenous Australians are ‘more equal’ than the rest of us.
European possessions, especially articles of clothing, were highly desirable by hunter gatherer peoples on ‘First Contact’ with Europeans and many Aboriginal people were similarly attracted.
Supporting the Progressive Left mob as it attacks our colonial past may seem like a good idea to some - until the mob comes after your Aboriginal heroes too - and it will.
This Book Provides an Appropriate and Accurate Representation for School Children of Aboriginal People’s Contribution and Presence in Australia’a Early history.
How Aboriginal Society was portrayed to school children in the 1950s and 60s
Dark Emu Exposed opens the lid on the Davis Family’s Claimed Lived Experiences
Dark Emu Exposed opens the lid on the Davis Family’s Claimed Lived Experiences
Conservatives are often criticized when they invoke the ‘slippery slope argument’ to point out the potential dangers of seemingly innocuous ‘socially-progressive’ ideas. But even ‘liberals’, if they are really being honest with themselves, must have some serious misgivings about the conflation of big business with state-sanctioned euthanasia.
“Sophisticated Aboriginal houses” are actually Torres Strait Huts with Melanesian and Polynesian influences
The New Guineans and the Torres Strait Islanders developed and continued their horticultural practices, but the Australian Aborigines chose, or were forced, to abandon their early horticultural experiments and instead followed a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
