Indigenous Australian Culture and Historical Events

Sociology
Indigenous Australian culture, histories and contemporary realities.
Name: John Chol.
Institution. Charles Sturt University
Professor. Kirsten Locke
Course. Indigenous Australian culture, histories and contemporary realities
Date. 13.5.2019.

Sociology
Task 3
It can be ultimately argued that there are emerging concepts related to social, educational, and
economic demerits facing the non-indigenous people as compared to indigenous individuals.
These particular disadvantages are associated with a clear understanding of the existing interplay
between historical and current tends issues like racism facing the non-indigenous people
(Bennett, Zubrzycki & Bacon, 2011). This paper identifies two events/policies that affected the
experiences of the indigenous and non-indigenous individuals in Australia. Therefore, the paper
describes issues such as unemployment, educational challenges and social problems faced by
indigenous population under the control of non-indigenous people in Australia. Most of the
historical events changed the relationship between the indigenous and non-indigenous people,
and also their norms and culture.
The western perspective of non-indigenous identity is highly prevalent in epistemological racism
issues as experienced in early life 40 years ago (Czyzewski, 2011).
Another issue is education. Over history, the education system has been considered as the critical
variable in impacting on a wide range of equality of life standards in most parts of Australian
regions. However various policies have led to inequalities in education mainly suffered by an
individual from the very disadvantaged backgrounds (Bodkin-Andrews & Carlson, 2016).
According to past historical events and policies, indigenous Australians have been associated
with the dangers of having lower levels of unemployment, more contact with justice approaches
and a high level of adverse physical health and mental illness.
Despite this, the policies and historical events may be argued to promote a greater extent of
resistance to the acknowledgment of the ongoing impacts experienced in society.

Sociology
Event: Frontier Wars
The frontier war involved a particular conflict that was experienced by Australian and Aboriginal
individuals. This brought about physical battles, various acts of resistance movements, and open
massacres between the years 1788-1930s.
According to historical evidence, the Australians frontier war is indicated to have long lasted to
the year 1934. Various historians argue continuously that many indigenous people were
adversely killed on these specific colonial violence events. The events involved the introduction
of disease to the inferior people and open massacres (Czyzewski, 2011).
Following these events, William copper 1861-19410 brought about policies that help to
champion and advocating of the aboriginal representation in the government (Hamilton, 2017).
The policy aimed at starting a petition for aboriginal representation for them to able to be
actively involved in the decision making process regarding challenges facing indigenous people
(Lowe & Yunkaporta, 2013).
It aimed at protecting the rights of the Aboriginals families who were affected by the mixed-race
backgrounds so that their views would be well represented in parliament (Paradies, 2016). The
social relationship between the indigenous Australian people and the broader Australian society
is quite weak as most have pressures and violent conflicts between them (Smith, 2013). At this
time power for indigenous population was restricted thus reduced aspect of freedom and
democracy.
It is evident that the aborigines faced a lot of challenges thus weakening their original powers as
compared to non-indigenous population. Conversely, they suffered poor living conditions, high
mortality rates, poverty and, children and family violence. Besides they were pushed by force