Stolen Generation

Stolen Generation

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1. The Aboriginies came from Asian mainland and the islands north of the Australian continent. 
2. The reason for this was unknown diseases; smallpox was one of the main reasons. 
3. They estimated that around 100,000 kids were taken away from their homes. 

Research and discover
1. The Māori, are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. The Māori originated with settlers from eastern Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages at some time between 1250 and 1300 CE. Its extreme disadvatage in social and economic conditions for them. 
2. The Maoris and Aboriginals preserved their belief systems through oral traditions. In the Aboriginal culture, deities do not have one role, but rather, fulfill a variety of roles.
Maoris, on the other hand, believe all natural elements and living things are connected by a common genealogy. 

Aboriginal Walkabout Ritual: refers to the rite of passage for adolescent males in the Aboriginal culture. Maori Moko Ritual:

Traditionally, the Maori tattoo is first commenced at puberty as a rite of passage. Throughout the years, additional tattoos are added to signify important life events.

The history of Aboriginal Australians is thought to have spanned 40,000 to 45,000 years, although some estimates have put the figure at up to 80,000 years before European settlement. The Aboriginal Australians lived with a strong dependence with the land, and also the water. Each group developed skills for the area in which they would live – hunting or fishing or gathering.

The path of Australian Aboriginal history changed radically after the 18th- and 19th-century settlement of the British: Indigenous people were displaced from their ways of life, were forced to submit to European rule, and were later encouraged to assimilate into Western culture. Since the 1960s, reconciliation has been the pursuit of European Australian–Aboriginal Australian relations.

The arrival of Europeans to New Zealand starting from the 17th century brought enormous change to the Māori way of life. Māori people gradually adopted many aspects of Western society and culture. Initial relations between Māori and Europeans were largely amicable, and with the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted as part of a new British colony. Rising tensions over disputed land sales led to conflict in the 1860s. Social upheaval, decades of conflict and epidemics of introduced disease took a devastating toll on the Māori population, which went into a dramatic decline, but by the start of the 20th century, the Māori population had begun to recover, and efforts were made to increase their standing in wider New Zealand society. Traditional Māori culture has enjoyed a revival, and a protest movement emerged in the 1960s advocating Māori issues.

3. I think that the Europeans maybe liked the Maories more than the Aborognies. That the Maories were easier to understand, to speak with and to live with.