Aboriginals and Dispossession.

... Aboriginals and Dispossession The Australian Aboriginal probably arrived here around 60,000 years ago and is thought to have the longest continuous cultural history in the world. They had a very unique society which existed in harmony with nature and without ever destroying their environment, food resources and themselves for thousands of years. This first contact with European settlers dramatically changed the social and economic structure of the Aboriginal and alienated them from their land and culture. Their population numbered about 300,000 when the first settlement was established. As more settlers arrived during the 19th century, the Aboriginals were pushed off their tribal lands and in many cases, hunted down, massacred, or poisoned. These survivors of dispossession and genocide were left unwanted in a dominant white society. The Aboriginal people where tortured by the "more sophisticated" white man, both mentally and physically. The European settlers took sacred land from the Aboriginal

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