Indigenous Education and Perspective

Running Head: INDIGENOUS EDUCATION AND PERSPECTIVE
Indigenous Education and Perspective
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INDIGENOUS EDUCATION AND PERSPECTIVE 2
CONTENTS
Part A.........................................................................................................................................3
Reflection...............................................................................................................................5
Part B..........................................................................................................................................6
Part C..........................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8
Appendix..................................................................................................................................10
a) Selected art-work..........................................................................................................10

INDIGENOUS EDUCATION AND PERSPECTIVE 3
Indigenous Education and Perspective
Part A
I choose this artwork as this inspires me so deep that I cannot resist myself to pen
down my thoughts. The artist of these brilliant pictures is Tony Albert. Tony Albert is the
emerging Australian artist. His artwork engages its viewers in historical, political and cultural
aboriginal and Australian history (Martineau & Ritskes, 2014).
On first seeing the artwork I interpreted that something is just destroying the natural
habitat. In the case of the chosen artwork, the land portrays aboriginal people who are
exploited through activism. The cigarettes in the artwork portray activism.
Well in my perspective, art and activism cannot go hand in hand. They have some
positive attribute as well as a negative attribute. This picture has a relation to aboriginal art
and nature. These pictures are fiction itself that is considered to be a powerful tool. Nature is
somehow considered the identity of aboriginal people. The indigenous artists use their
artwork for their untold stories. They use their paintings for bringing up their issues that no
one is noticing or being discussed at a national platform, or it is neglected by the authorities
like the artist show in this picture that their culture and traditions.
I am a human being, and I believe in humanity. I want humanity to win. This
particular artwork invoked me because of the artist being an aboriginal and the message that
he tried to convey in his artwork. Aboriginals are treated as second class citizens in Australia,
and they do not have their own identity and are deprived of their fundamental rights.
This artwork by Tony Albert shows the connection of the history of indigenous
peoples to the world. Their culture, their heritage is so rich that no one can deny. They have
firm faith in their culture and do not want to lose their culture at any costs. This is the reason;
they avoid schooling their children because white Australians force them to leave their
culture. In this artwork, the artist portrayed an indigenous person as ash that has no value at