Impact of European colonization on
Indigenous people in Australia.
Noor Al thani 8B
The Aboriginals arrived to Australia in January
1788. At first the Europeans were friendly to
the Aboriginals but then when the Europeans
wanted to take the Aboriginals land they
fought for their land but they lost. Diseases
were more dangerous then the weapons
according to the Aboriginals.
In the movie ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ Molly, Daisy
and Gracie were taken from their family
because they wanted to make the Aboriginals
number decrease, when the Europeans came
to Australia and was ready to settle in
Australia the Aboriginals were cut off. The
Europeans thought that the Aborigines are
stupid, they were killed from disease or driven
out of there lands.
These are some of the diseases that the
Aborigines had got when the European came
measles, German measles, smallpox, influenza
and tuberculosis there is even more diseases.
Smallpox
Measles
Beginning
When two convicts died the first problem had
started and it was near Rushcutters Bay in
Sydney. The first Aborigine caught by the
Europeans was Arabanoo. On April 1789,
smallpox started to spread in Australia, they
wiped out and also almost all the children had
died from these disease. Also within the first
two years in the Port Jackson area almost half
of the Aboriginals had died from smallpox it is
really the most deadly disease.
The South Australian Aboriginals had a song for
smallpox because they believed that it tries to
stop the disease to come to them, they knew
this song from the east side because the
disease had come from there.
During
In between 1788 and 1900 the Aboriginals had
decreased to about 90% because from
diseases, loss of the land and the people who
died from the fighting colonisers. During the
1870s the Europeans had taken all the
aboriginal lands and had given it to the white
people who settled in Australia. The
aboriginals had been left with no place to go
and nothing to eat because they did not
Have anywhere to hunt to eat the animals. But
then they had a supply of fresh meat given to
them by the Europeans and then the
Aboriginals were depending on the Europeans
to give them food.
After
The population of the Aboriginal had defiantly
decreased. After fifteen years in the 1970s the
important areas of the community had
decided to return to the traditional life. The
Europeans had apologized to the Aboriginals
and also the aboriginals had accepted eve
though almost all there people had died from
the disease the Europeans had brought and
the side effects of the diseases and also what
They had done to the children and the people.
Conclusion
This is what had happened to the Aboriginals
when the Europeans took over and what had
happened before and after. I think that the
Aboriginals had the right to live with there
families and the right to live there on cultural
way and beliefs.
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