What did you write for the short response, 5 marker? (2 Viewers)

[thommy]

Mine was on the Aborigines, and had a quote from The Sydney Morning Herald 2007. I just wrote they were deprived of land, language, ritual etc... What about you?

 

[dolbinau]

Pretty much the same. How without that they couldn't express the dreaming core to their spirituality or some crap.

 

[emo-kid-91]

i also talked about how, exactly, the dispossession has affected them. high unemployment, infant fatalities and crime rates, low literacy and life expectancy.

 

[dolbinau]

I also mentioned things like that, but only briefly since it was meant to be about their spirituality.

I also talked briefly about Reconciliation/Mabo/Wik trying to help the problem..

 

[whoisurdaddy]

I mentioned assimilation and protection policies used to dispossess them.

 

[Geohood]

Dispossession took away their connection to their land, kinship groups, rituals, language, burial place and elders can't pass on the overall culture.

 

[hujikolp]

my whole school life studying aboriginals, so 5 marks on that what pretty easy..
just about connection with the land and loss of spirituality becaue of that.. and some other stuff that people have already said too..

 

[nisseltaria]

my whole school life studying aboriginals.

Sounds rather clinical.



I focused on the quote in my answer rather than the general effects of dispossession. So I wrote about the irreparable damage done to the Dreaming through the seperation of elders and their successors in the Stolen Generations, and the enforced seperation from traditional lands. It was a bit of a doom&gloom piece - knowledge lost cannot easily be regained, especially knowledge of a lifestyle &/or a spirituality.