Impact of European colonization on Indigenous people in Australia. Noor Al thani 8B

The Aboriginals arrived to Australia in January 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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