The_Aboriginal_Experience_–_Dispossession_And_Survival

The Aboriginal Experience – Dispossession And Survival By early 1925, nearly all of the New South Wales Aboriginal population had been wiped out. There were many factors that had lead to this wipeout. The first, and most controversial was dispossession. There was competition between Europeans and Aboriginal people for both land and food throughout the nineteenth century. The colonists had different views on land. The colonists wanted it as a possession, to use until it’s valuable sources were depleted, whereas the Aborigines had a special relationship with the land. They took food from the land, but only enough to satisfy their basic needs. The colonists took traditional Aboriginal land, which they used for sheep pastures and European-style settlements. An example of this is in source 3.5.2, ‘A squatter’s view of the Aborigines in 1843.’ “The worthless, idle aborigine has been driven back from the land that he knew not how to make use of, and value not, to make room for a more noble race of beings, who are capable of estimating the value of this fine country. Is it not right that it should be so'” For over a century, in most parts of Australia, a war was fought between Aboriginal groups and European settlers. The Aboriginal people fought aborigines, aboriginal, land, european, people, food, convicts, traditional, settlers, out, europeans, colonists, between, been, because, wales, value, took, theory, superior, south, source, race, population, poisoned, new, medicine, make, killed, included, groups, fought, factor, died, die, country