Australian Aborigines #1

1.4.2 Massacres

Apart from the racist laws and the Stolen Generation, there are some tangible episodes

of massacres.all, the Aboriginals want the Australian government to apologize for the history and

for errors of 200 years of colonization.

The policy of reconciliation has to live up to the co-existence program

includes:

1) to keep faith with the judgment called "Mabo" High Court

2) confirm all ownership rights valid

3) establish a system for trading

Mabo: in June 1992 the High Court of Justice made a decision that took the

name Mabo.

It represents a fundamental point in the legal history in Australian

respect for land rights of Aboriginal people.

The main point of this ruling was the recognition that before January

1788, there was the right to indigenous property across the continent and upended

so the grounding concept nullius (Australia belonged to no one). The High

Court decided that the right of indigenous title was to be recognized where

It remained a possession of any property of the Crown and where the Aborigines

still lived in close contact with the earth, still following their own laws, and the

their traditional costumes. words according to the different languages, the Dreamtime is a set of stories, transmitted

from generation to generation and performed during ceremonies, which

represent their relationship with the land, the family, the tribe, the fauna, the flora

and they gave them information to survive and even natural laws and

ethical behavior.

Steven Mithen expressed this fundamental concept in the book "The prehistory

of the mind ":" For companies based on hunting and harvesting (60,000 A.C.) do not

are two worlds of people (society) and things (nature), but only a world - a

Environment - saturated with personal powers which included men, animals and plants from

which they depended, and the environment in which they lived and moved. " He wrote

also that: "They had an attitude similar to the social and natural worlds: they were

one and the same. "

This means that they lived in a world in which shared forms and

shapes, structures and its operation with nature. Share means

them, doing the same things, they used, but also respected, all the presences

living and non-living as if they were a part of their body. They felt like

to plants and animals

because all of them had skin, bark or blanket; all had arms, legs and express system of relations within aboriginal tribes. The term

totemism means: the use of totems (emblems or images of an animal or a

bird) to distinguish groups of people within the tribe, clan or family.

Like all other aspects of the habits and life of the Aborigines, totemism is a

body of knowledge "that allowed people to understand the social universe and