Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.2.0233
Adams, Canuto, Drew, Fleay
The mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in Australia is often misunderstood, mainly because it has been poorly researched. When analyzing the quality of life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males, it is crucial to consider the associated factors that have directly and indirectly contributed to their poor health and wellbeing, that is, the effects of colonization, the interruption of cultural practices, displacement of societies, taking away of traditional homelands and forceful removal of children (assimilation and other policies). The displacement of families and tribal groups from their country broke up family groups and caused conflict between the original inhabitants of the lands and dislocated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribal groups. These dislocated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were forced to reside on the allocated government institutions where they would be (allegedly) protected. Whilst in the institutions they were made to comply with the authority rules and were forbidden to practice or participate in their traditional rituals or customs or speak their own tribal languages. Additionally, the dispossession from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional lands and the destruction of culture and political, economic, and social structures have caused many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to have a pervading sense of hopelessness for the future. The traditional customs and life cycles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males were permanently affected by colonization adversely contributing to mental health problems in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. In this article we aim to provide a better understanding of the processes impacting on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males' social and emotional wellbeing.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.2.0149
T. Ryan
This article investigates, from the findings of previous doctoral research, the intersectional challenges that ultimately contribute to developing and determining the strong voices of Indigenous women's leadership in the Australian context. Utilizing Indigenous women's standpoint theory as the guiding frameworks for the research, 20 Indigenous women were interviewed as part of a broader project investigating Indigenous women's leadership. A number of themes emerged in understanding what it means to be an Indigenous woman leading in the present day. The article concludes that Indigenous Australian women face unique challenges in their leadership trajectory and attempts to reframe some of those challenges into opportunities.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.2.0192
Sciullo
Museums have long been important to cultural understanding as well as sites of cultural conflict. One of the issues that is most pressing and straddles the expanse of the cultural understanding/conflict spectrum is Native American remains in the United States. A recent Department of Interior rule clarifying the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has strengthened the rights of Indian tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, and lineal descendant by making clearer their rights and their ability to ask questions of museums holding certain Native American remains and artifacts. I argue that a Marxist perspective can help explain the rule, and that such an explanation may be a foundation for improving ongoing discussions about Native American remains and artifacts in museums. Through a Marxist museology, I unpack the ways in which museums continue to function under a logic of capital accumulation despite the rule's necessary corrective.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.2.0212
McLean
In 2003, anthropologist Professor Peter Sutton wrote, “To demand of a kin-based society that it produce simple, stable and definitive lists of rights and rights-holders in land and waters is ethnocentric,” and “codification, at least for many such groups, is itself contrary to their own laws and customs.” However, despite warnings by Sutton and others, the structuring of native title and related claims and determinations have continued just as warned against. It is argued here that this phenomenon is the result of attempts to accommodate the demands of non-Indigenous political, legal, and economic structures to have simply defined groups and consequent corporate identities that are recognizable to, and controllable by, dominant non-Indigenous structures. The consequent corporate identities, the Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBC), are a modern version of the system of king plates of old and more needs to be done to ensure recognition of complex traditional law systems.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.2.0172
Cahir, Schlagloth, Clark
The principal aim of this study is to provide a detailed examination of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century archival records that relate to New South Wales Aboriginal peoples' associations with koalas and gain a greater understanding of the utilitarian and symbolic significance of koalas for Aboriginal communities as recorded by colonists during the early period of colonization. Anthropological discussions about the role and significance of koalas in Australian Aboriginal society have been limited, some sources are unreliable and interpretation is at times divisive. Many scholars have previously highlighted how using only historical sources as its reference point it is difficult to discern with great specificity that Aboriginal peoples in other regions of New South Wales commonly ate the koala and used its skin. Through a critique of historical sources, we demonstrate that the ethno-historical evidence is inconclusive as to whether they were an integral food source for much of the time period covered by this paper in the area now called the state of New South Wales. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that the extent of their use varied across regions and between tribal groups and was likely to have been traditionally associated with lore specific to certain cultural groups, and may have involved dreaming stories, and gendered roles in hunting and resource use, and other aspects of spiritual belief systems.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.2.0264
Radavoi
First Peoples in Australia have rejected a constitutional statement of recognition, preferring instead a constitutional “Voice.” I look back at the discarded solution and I discuss its opportunity (would constitutional recognition really have meant surrender?), feasibility (would it really have not gathered enough votes at the referendum?), and necessity.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.2.iv
Troy
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.1.0124
Roman
{"title":"Indigenous Beliefs About Little People","authors":"Roman","doi":"10.5325/aboriginal.3.1.0124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/aboriginal.3.1.0124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93723,"journal":{"name":"ab-Original : journal of indigenous studies and first nations' and first peoples' culture","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75211239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.1.0143
Schnitzler
{"title":"Bringing Her to the Front Page: An Analysis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Representation in Canadian Media","authors":"Schnitzler","doi":"10.5325/aboriginal.3.1.0143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/aboriginal.3.1.0143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93723,"journal":{"name":"ab-Original : journal of indigenous studies and first nations' and first peoples' culture","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85304573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/aboriginal.3.1.0081
Eisenberg
{"title":"Mihumisang: Formosan Tribal Voices","authors":"Eisenberg","doi":"10.5325/aboriginal.3.1.0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/aboriginal.3.1.0081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93723,"journal":{"name":"ab-Original : journal of indigenous studies and first nations' and first peoples' culture","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77588547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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