GEG 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Aboriginal Protection Board, Indian Act, Terra Nullius

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEG 2108
• Professor: Brenda Mac Dougall

Document Summary

Any that relate to post secondary education. Remember to identify specifically in the paper. Australia"s stolen generation and reconciliation: aboriginal australians and torres strait. Australia colonized in 1788 and becomes a br colony. Convicts shipped there as a way of dealing with over crowding for the first 75 years the colonial structure was built by convicts two types of indigenous people: aborigines. The black people of austrialians: torres and straight islanders. States in australia worked together as a federation but had a great deal of autonomy within the federal system. Australia was colonized based on empty land. This makes it much different from any other colonized territory. Canada, latin america has never been terra nullius. Although it is legally defined as empty land, it was ethnically and linguistically advanced. 600 different languages spoken at time of contact, only 20 indigenous languages left.