small pox
There have always been diseases among aboriginals that the Aboriginal treated with greater or lesser success. The real problem that the Australian Aboriginal had with disease however was brought to him with the white settlers in the form of such illnesses as measles small pox syphilis gonorrhea to name but a few, these people had no natural resistance to these infections and they decimated them.
While exact numbers of aboriginal people in Australia at the time of European settlement are unknown, it is estimated there were anywhere between 350,000 and 1.5 million.
Aboriginal people. They are Australian bush people.
The Aboriginal people never did invade Australia, The British people did. Aboriginal people roamed Australia long before the British/white people did. (:
aboriginal parents lost their chilldren and never saw them again. oh and the lost their homes and lives too.
"Gin" is not an aboriginal name. It was a rather derogatory term used by white people to refer to aboriginal women who were often used for sexual services.
The aboriginal act of 1910 affected the people of Australia. They did this by lessening yet not completely removing the boundaries between the white and native people there.
The aboriginal way of life did not include democracy in the sense that white man's society understands it. Aboriginal life was very patriarchal, with no room for democratic vote regarding the chiefs and elders of the tribes.
Generally, Aboriginal people didn't have rights and freedom, until WWII Aboriginal people then where allowed to vote, be part of the Census and be an Citizen. Aboriginal people are Australians and have the same rights as white Australians, they shouldn't be discriminated against for whatever reason whether it is a good discrimination or ill.
There are many variations due to the number of different Indigenous languages but a common term for white people is 'Gubbah'.
The indigenous people of the Canberra region were the Ngunnawal.
On average their health is poorer than that of many white people this is the result ofthe original stock that they come from having a poor resistance to the illnesses and the diet that the white man has introduced. in the outback there is also a problem with substance abuse effecting not only the abuser but in some cases the unborn. add to this that unemployment is very high giving many of the people nothing to do or look forward to and an extremely poor health service and you end up with a people that has a poor health record.