Problèmes aborigènes Australie

issues. Their territory stretches over both sides of the USA-Canada border which is a problem because they can’t go from one point of their territory to another without having to go through customs while Blackfoot, which is not recognized as a nationality by American and Canadian law as we seen in the text citizenship. According to First Peoples, the land belongs to everyone, not just a nation or a community. They have been forced to live within artificial border, reserves.

Similarly, the Aboriginal play a vital role in Australia’s formative history and cultural identity. After the European settlement in 1788, the land of Australia became the territory of the British. Aborigines land rights, were stripped off. They suffered enormously from death, disease, displacement, traditional lifestyle and ritual disrupted. The children who were forcibly removed during that period are known as the stolen generation. Many grew up confused about their identities and were deprived of love, care and education. Most of the children experienced physical, sexual and emotional forms of abuse. An official apologize to the stolen generation did not exist until 2008, when the Prime Minister Kevin Rud apologized on behalf of the Australian government. Nowadays, the aboriginal of Australia and first people in Canada, face some similar difficulties including homelessness, poverty or unemployment and its impact on their health. They also still face racism, discrimination and violence.

However, as human beings into account, nowadays governments set up many projets to improve their quality of life and to solve

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