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NSWAboriginal StudiesCore Part 1: Aboriginality and the Land
Quick questions on Dispossession and dislocation in HSC Aboriginal Studies
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What are evaluating dispossession as the foundation of later issues?Show answer
Dispossession is the root that explains the rest of the course. The over-representation of Aboriginal people in poverty, poor health and the justice system, the loss of languages, and the fight for land rights all trace back to the taking of Country and the dislocation that followed. When you analyse any later issue, connecting it back to dispossession turns description into causal analysis, which is what the top bands reward.
What is sequence the mechanisms, then link them?Show answer
Terra nullius, frontier violence, disease and removal reinforced one another rather than acting alone; naming that reinforcement, not just listing each mechanism, is what separates analysis from narration.
What is always centre agency in your final paragraph?Show answer
Whatever the question, close on resistance and survival (armed defence, secret ceremony, strikes, political organisation) so the answer does not read as a victim narrative alone.
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