Changing Aboriginal rights and freedom

What does Colonisation mean?

• establishing control over the indigenous people of a city. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas

• establishing control over the European people of an area. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas

• establishing control over the indigenous people of a rural area. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas

• establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas

Terra Nullius means?

• land belonging to no one

• land of no value

• native title

• land without culture

What was the Day of Mourning?

• First organised civil rights protest by African-Americans

• First organised civil rights protest by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples

• Second organised civil rights protest by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples

• The final organised civil rights protest by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples

When was the Day of Mourning Protest?

• 26 January, 1967

• 26 January, 1948

• 26 January, 1938

• 1 January, 1788

What was the Stolen Generation?

• The process where Aboriginal children were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies.

• The process where Aboriginal children were removed from white families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies.

• The process where Aboriginal children were removed from their families by other Aboriginal families

• The process where Aboriginal adults were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies.

Why did the government take mixed race Aboriginal children from their families?

• Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider white population.

• Government thought these children could be better used as servants.

• Government thought their parents could not look after them

• Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider black population.

What does segregation mean?

• Separation of black and white people in all forms of public life. For example, restaurants, schools, housing and transportation.

• Separation of black people from different social classes

• Sedation of black and white people in all forms of public life.

• Separation of black and white people on in education

What did governments want to achieve through policies of protection?

• To help Indigenous people achieve recognition of their land rights

• To help Indigenous people gain citizenship

• To control all aspects of Indigenous people’s lives

• To encourage all states to give Indigenous people the vote

Which term best describes the policy of giving people control of their own lives?

• Self-determination

• Reconciliation

• Assimilation

• Integration

Which government policy expected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to live the same lives as non-Indigenous Australians?

• Protection

• Integration

• Assimilation

• Self determination