Driving Question

 

 

How well can you answer the Driving question?

 

Here is the question:

 

Discuss the ways in which the rights and freedoms of the Aboriginal peoples in Australia have changed from the Dreamtime to the present.

 

 

 

 

1. Why have certain words been placed in a bold font?

   Because they are Important word which are directly related to the questions.

2. What is the object of the sentence?

   The object of the sentence is ‘Aboriginies’, this is because the whole pronject is based on the Aboriginies and their rights.

3. What is the Subject of the sentence?

The subject of the sentence is the rights and freedoms of the Aboriginies and how they have changed in the past 200 years

1. What ‘time frame’ has been identified?

   The Dreamtime to the presents is the time frame which is used in the question

2. What is a right?

   Rights are the legal rights of a person.

3. What are ‘freedoms’?

   Freedoms is the condition of being free of something.

4. Identify the ‘verbs’ in the question. What is the main verb? (The one that asks you to do something). What does it mean for you when you attempt to answer the question?

   Discuss, changed, ways. The main verb is discuss. This means we have to discuss how the Aboriginies have changed.

5. What things do you think you could and should include in your answer? List them below.

• Stolen generation

• Apoligie from PM

• Before the white men came.

• What we can do to help them.

CHARLIE PERKINS AND THE FREEDOM RIDERS

CHARLIE PERKINS AND THE FREEDOM RIDERS

One event that was instrumental in making the Australian public aware of the discrimination that continued against Aborigines in the 1960s was the 1965 Freedom Ride.

During the 1960s groups of American college students organised bus trips around the USA to expose the continuing discrimination against African Americans.  They wanted to help African Americans to achieve the freedom to be treated the same as white Americans. These tips were called “Freedom Rides.”

In Australia in February 1965 a group of 31 Sydney University students and one journalist, under the banner “The Student action for aborigines Council” departed on a bus journey through north-western NSW. The purpose of trip was to highlight discrimination suffered by Indigenous Australians. The group was led by Charles Perkins and Jim Spiegelman and supported by the Reverend Ted Noffs of the Wayside Chapel in Sydney.

Jim Spiegelman became the chief Justice on NSW (the most senior judge) in May 1998.

Top of Form

 Give 5 examples of the “colour bar” Freedom Rides found.

Answer True or False to these questions

The Walgett RSL Club barred indigenous people form membership. True

 Some Walgett citizens welcomed the Freedom Riders with flowers True

In Moree Freedom riders protested outside the swimming pool False

As a result all Aboriginal children were allowed to swim in the pool at any time. True

Moree resident pelted the Freedom riders with eggs and fruit when they returned True

The Freedom Riders used Civil Disobedience tactics such as blocking the entrance to the pool in Moree. True

Use the words in the box to fill in the gaps in the passage below:

	conflict	‘Boong’	Federal Advancement for Aborigines	soccer
discriminated	white miner	fitter and turner	white circles	Arlturga
education	Freedom Rides	Jesse Jackson	Liverpool	South Australian

Charles Perkins was born in Arlturga in 1936. His mother Hetti was from the Arrente people near Alex Springs. Her father was a white miner. His father was a kangaroo hunter who also has indigenous family on his mother’s side. From 1945 to 1952 Perkins continued his earlier at an Anglican school as a resident. . Perkins school years were full of conflict and at age 16 he was forced to leave school and obtained an apprenticeship as a at the British Tube Mills. He was often referred to there as a “Boong”  and was against in other ways. Although Perkins felt that his schooling provided him with discipline and independence, it also robbed him of a sense of identity and community.Mixing in the school’s Perkins noted that white girls would not dance with him and that white males taunted him. He gained some acceptance through his exceptional skills, but felt that the acceptance came from ethnic soccer clubs. In 1957 and 58 he played for and Manchester United in England.  When he returned to Australia he played for the Adelaide Croatia team.

Poetry

No more woomera, no more boomerang,
No more playabout, no more the old ways.
Children of nature we were then,
No clocks hurrying crowds to toil.
Now I am civilized and work in the white way,
Now I have dress, now I have shoes:
‘Isn’t she lucky to have a good job!’
Better when I had only a dillybag.
Better when I had nothing but happiness

This poem is about how the Aborginies have lost their idenity and are now living their life like white people

Aboriginal culture

Practices and ceremonies

A Bora is an initiation ceremony in which young boys are transformed into men.

A Corroboree it is a ceremonial meeting for Australian Aboriginal people.

Fire-stick farming, identified by Australian archeologist Rhys Jones in 1969, is the practice of regularly and systematically burning patches of vegetation to facilitate hunting, to reduce the frequency of major bush-fires, and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area. “A Smoking ceremony is a cleansing ritual performed on special occasions.

Tjurunga or churinga are objects of religious significance by Central Australian Aboriginal Arrernte (Aranda, Arundta) groups.

Music

Aborigines developed unique instruments and folk styles. The didgeridoo is commonly considered the national instrument of Australian Aborigines, and it is claimed to be the world’s oldest wind instrument.

Art

Australia has a long tradition of Aboriginal art which is thousands of years old. Modern Aboriginal artists continue the tradition using modern materials in their artworks. Aboriginal art is the most internationally recognisable form of Australian art.

Belief System

 the world’s oldest continent the creative epoch known as the Dreamtime stretches back into a remote era in history when the creator ancestors known as the First Peoples travelled across the great southern land of Bandaiyan (Australia), creating and naming as they went

Stolen generation

kevin rudd apologise

Journal 3

Evaluate your contribution to the group and your own work ethic?

I think i helped a lot in, the draft and supplementary material

What did you find your strengths and weaknesses were?

Strenght: Able to do work when needed.

Weaknesses: Lazy

Journal 2

which part of the exposition are you responsible for?

Supplementary material

What supplementary material are you using to back up your thesis points (your argument)?

Movie clips, apoligise, quotes

Journal 1

What significant moment in Indigenous History occurs this week?

Prime Minister Rudd apoligised for the stolen generation.

How may you use this as supplementary material?

The fact that the Prime Minister apoligised shows that the Aboriginies have hope

What is your aim for this lesson?

Do draft