Cultural Safety Flashcards
Define Terra Nullius
Land belonging to no one.
How many Indigenous nations made up Australia?
500.
When did settlement occur?
1788-1885
What diseases impacted the Indigenous population?
Smallpox, measles, influenza, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and venereal diseases.
What was the impact of European occupation?
Access to country, loss of land, critical to health and well being of Aboriginal people, limited access to nutritional resources, decline in health.
What was the Indigenous population before invasion?
750,000 to 1,000,000
Why were Aboriginal people considered British subjects?
When they claimed the terra nullius status they claimed the land for themselves and everything in it.
What type of law validated the mass murder of Indigenous people?
Martial Law
Why do Indigenous communities fear scientific research?
The promotion of indigenous people as just less than human, massacres, grave digging, writing of specimens for observations.
What was the first governmental policy to control the Aboriginal population?
Protectionism, 1838-1970s.
What was the protection policy?
Policy of limiting rights and separating Aboriginal peoples from society in order to protect European interests.
Describe the actions carried out during protectionism.
- Wards of the state
- Put on reserves/missions
- Forced them to go to church
- Gave them rations
- Sick people were chained up and left to die
- Money was taken away from them to fund government corruption.
- Lived in shacks
- They were beaten and controlled.
Who were the protectors?
A government appointed official to control every movement, marriage, freedom of the Indigenous peoples.
