Topic
Effects on Aboriginals due to European contact in the 19th Century
Instructions
Identify and examine three effects on Aboriginal Australian people relating to one frontier in the context of Aboriginal and European contact in the 19th Century.
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Another effect of the frontier wars was that the aboriginals lost their hunting grounds, as their lands were forcefully taken from them through the doctrine of terra nullius, where according to the British the Aboriginals had not established a government that would have allowed them to lay claim over the lands (Reynolds, 2006). In the opinion of the British, this was no man’s land and for that reason, they had every right to take it away (Russell, 2001). This meant that the Aboriginals did not have a source of livelihood or a way to fend for their families and as a result, most of them die out of starvation. In addition, the Aboriginals lost their pride during and after the way the white settlers did not give any regard to the customs and traditions of the Aboriginals (Dudgeon et al. 2010).
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