How were Aboriginal people affected by colonization?

How were Aboriginal people affected by colonization?

During the early years of colonization, Indigenous people were massacred by Europeans, incarcerated and forcibly removed from their customary land. Today, their life expectancy is lower compared to other groups in Australia, while rates of poverty, ill-health, unemployment and imprisonment are far higher.

What was the estimated impact on the Aboriginal population between 1788 and 1900?

The combination of disease, loss of land and direct violence reduced the Aboriginal population by an estimated 90% between 1788 and 1900. A wave of massacres and resistance followed the frontier of British settlement.

What impact has the loss of land and culture had on the Australian Indigenous?

Their dispossession of the land, exposure to new diseases and involvement in violent conflict, resulted in the death of a vast number of the Aboriginal peoples.

What was the aboriginal population in 1900?

around 117,000 people
Aboriginal population figures Experts estimate the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders at more than 770,000 at the time of the invasion in 1788. It fell to its low of around 117,000 people in 1900, a decrease by 84%.

How does trauma impact on Aboriginal health?

The cumulative effect of historical and intergenerational trauma severely reduces the capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to fully and positively participate in their lives and communities, leading to widespread disadvantage.

How did colonisation affect Australia?

The most immediate consequence of colonisation was a wave of epidemic diseases including smallpox, measles and influenza, which spread ahead of the frontier and annihilated many Indigenous communities.

What are three effects of European colonization?

European colonization of North America had a devastating effect on the native population. Within a short period of time their way of life was changed forever. The changes were caused by a number of factors, including loss of land, disease, enforced laws which violated their culture and much more.

How did loss of culture affect Aboriginal?

Languages carry cultural knowledge, so the loss of a language means the loss of culture, of Aboriginal people’s connection to their ancestors. This in turn has the potential to impact on Aboriginal people’s health and well-being. The loss of languages is also associated with economic and social costs.

How did the indigenous population of Australia change?

History of Indigenous Australians. In the early 1900s it was commonly believed that the Aboriginal population of Australia was leading toward extinction. The population shrank from those present when colonisation occurred in 1788 to 50,000 in 1930; this was primarily due to an outbreak of smallpox and to a lesser extent from other diseases.

How did the federal government affect Aboriginal people?

State government policy and legislation had an overriding influence on Aboriginal Australians with the Commonwealth involved in a secondary manner through legislation that limited access to citizenship and welfare rights, often in terms of degree of descent and in legislative definitions of Aboriginality.

When did Aboriginals lose their sense of citizenship?

The notional citizenship ascribed to Aboriginal people upon first settlement at the end of the 18th century was eroded by colonial state governments in the 19 th century—with dispossession from land being followed by dispossession from family. With federation in 1901 there were few significant changes.

How did the assimilation policy affect Aboriginal people?

The effects on Aboriginal family life were devastating. From the 1920s the policy became one of enforced assimilation for ‘part- Aboriginals’ as the Board tried to reduce the number of people on the reserves.