Indigenous Community and Assessment

Running head: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY AND ASSESSMENT
Indigenous Community and Assessment
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1INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY AND ASSESSMENT
Sydney’s unique culture of indigenous community is rooted in thousand of years’
heritage and the fact that people have continued to preserve the practice. Australian government
has taken a number of initiatives previously to preserve the culture of Torres Strait Islander The
tourism sector is also concentrated on promoting partly the culture of aboriginal people, for
instance Aboriginal Blue Mountains Walkabout (Battiste, 2016). The journey is educational in
nature and just an hour drive from Sydney which serves the purpose of protecting the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander. From recent studies and literature of Australia, scholars have deducted
the amount of trama that has been impregnated within the community. Some of the immediate
reasons for the feeling of disorientation among the people have been detachment from their own
community and family members, cultural shock due to separation from their own culture and
assemblage into an alien one. A large part of Sydney’s culture and history is predominated by the
ethically and culturally unique Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people who came
from the islands of Torres Strait. They are quintessentially nomadic in nature and they carved out
their land guided by the spirit of their ancestors. A formal representation of the culture and
idiosyncrasies of their culture can be assembled from literature, folk songs, dance, poetry, drama
that shapes the aboriginal life and culture. Currently, the aboriginal population sums up to
649,200 people with around 25.5 percent of NT population as claimed by government data
(Fisher & McDonald, 2016).

2INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY AND ASSESSMENT
The students of folk literature dispersed all over the world know in-depth about the
spirituality of these people, who has striven for ages to spiritually connect with the land they are
inhabiting. According to folk stories, they simply did not occupy the land, but were an essential
part of the same, they belonged to the land, protecting and preserving it in their own ways.
However, the predominant occupations amongst these people were fishery, hunting and farming.
As it is with the transient nature of culture and practices, the lifestyle went through turbulent
times because of the arrival of the European settlers who brought along with them their own set
of beliefs and traditions which were a direct threat to the age old practices and cultural practices
of the aborigines.
Figure: Aboriginal Community
Figure: Tenets of Indigenous Culture

3INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY AND ASSESSMENT
This set them against a different cultural backdrop which made them the ‘other’, a
culturally inferior ad primitive set of tribes in front of the white skin European settlers.
Colonization brought along with them a direct threat to the existence of these islanders as the
colonial society was largely intolerant to the proverbial ‘low-class’ aboriginal community. These
gradually pushed them towards different strata of society, where they were dominated by the all
pervasive culture and norms of their superior European colonizers. This led to a long period of
denial on the part of the European community towards the aborigines, followed by cultural an
economic exclusion. Consequently, the aboriginal clique was forced to relocate and follow a
different set of cultural practice and linguistic.
Although here were resistance from their part towards their colonial settlers and planned
for widespread protests in order to shelter their culture. As far as history is concerned, they had
planned and implemented their planning by disrupting stations, killing farm laborers hailing from
Figure: Children of Indigenous Community