Voice

Question 1

Identity:

Answer 1

Continuity between sense of self, social group attachment, and larger political context.

Question 2

Defining Aboriginal Identity (3):

Answer 2

• Be of Aboriginal descent.
• Identify as Aboriginal.
• Accepted by the community in which they live.

Question 3

Indigenous Identity Journey- “negotiatied process” (2):

Answer 3

1) Self-realisation.
2) Recognised and legitimised by others as being Aboriginal.

The process of self-realisation and recognition can be influenced by disruptions to their connections to their Aboriginal ancestry occurring over many generations.

Question 4

The 1967 Referendum:

Answer 4

A referendum was held to determine whether to alter the Constitution of Australia to:

• allow Indigenous people to be counted in the Australian census of population.
• allow the Commonwealth to make laws for Indigenous people.

Question 5

Indigenous identity and wellbeing…

Answer 5

Indigenous health does not mean the physical wellbeing of an individual, but refers to the social, emotional, and cultural wellbeing of the whole community.

Question 6

How sovereignty is linked with Indigenous health (2):

Answer 6

• Community participation and connectedness.

- Self-determination (maintenance of community social structures; and having authority over their own affairs).

Question 7

Blood Quantum:

Answer 7

• States classified Aboriginal through Blood Quantum (e.g. half-caste; quadroon; full-blood).
• “A new species of legal creature was created and sustained as a separate class, subject to separate laws and separately administered.

Question 8

White fictions and stereotypes (4):

Answer 8

• Ideas ranged from: Noble natives, to inebriated; to spiritual.
• Idle and vagrant.
• ‘Authentic’ and ‘inauthentic’ Indigenous people.
• Deculturation and deficits.

Question 9

Deculturation:

Answer 9

The ‘vicious’ ‘decultured’ Aboriginal person is said to present a range of deficits, not only the deficit of a lack of culture, but a belief that they have been “corrupted” by white society.

Question 10

Deficit Discourse (2):

Answer 10

• A deficit discourse is “a narrative of deficiency” that defines Aboriginal identity in terms of lack, absence or failure.
• Places responsibility of problems on the affected individuals while overlooking the larger socio-economic influences.