Indigenous People - Australia Aborigines

Question 0

Aborigine

Answer 0

The indigenous people of Australia - it’s first inhabitants

Question 1

Terra Nullius

Answer 1

Land belonging to no one

Question 2

Elder

Answer 2

Key person/leader in an aboriginal community

Question 3

Dreamtime

Answer 3

The earliest time when ancestral spirit beings created the world

Question 4

Nomadic

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People who move according to seasons from one place to another in search for land, water and grazing land, rather than living in one place

Question 5

Terra Australis Incognita

Answer 5

Unknown Southern land - how Europeans referred to Australia in the 17th century

Question 6

Dispossession

Answer 6

The taking away of land from the indigenous people

Question 7

Stolen Generation

Answer 7

Mixed race/half caste aboriginal children were removed from their families and put into white-run institutions

Question 8

Breeding out the colour

Answer 8

Deliberate policy to wipe out a race by forcing it’s people to only have children with white people

Question 9

Assimilation

Answer 9

When a smaller culture loses it’s unique features through becoming absorbed into a larger, more dominant culture

Question 10

Reserve

Answer 10

Land (often inferior) set aside for Aboriginal communities to live in

Question 11

Mission Station

Answer 11

A location for missionaries to work with local communities. This commonly consisted of churched, gardens, fields, workrooms, dormitories and schools

Question 12

Segregation

Answer 12

Allocating different areas for races so that they don’t mix with one another