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History part 2facts taken from:

http://panique.com.au/trishansoz/aborigine/aborigin.htmlhttp://www.hht.net.au/discover/highlights/kids_fact_sheets/why_were_convicts_transported_to_australia

The first australiansThe first people of Australia were the Aborigines. They arrived here around 50,000 years ago. They came from Africa, through India, Malaysia, Borneo and Papua New Guinea.

Aboriginies = aboriginerarrived = anländethrough = genom

The aboriginies

The Aborigines did not live a long time in one place. They moved around and were hunters. They hunted animals with spears and boomerangs. They also gathered fruits, nuts and yams which they ate.

There were around 300,000 aborigines in about 250 tribal groups before the first white settlers arrived in Australia in 1776. Each group had its own territory, traditions, beliefs and language.

The Aborigines have one of the oldest civilisations in the world.

Place =platsmoved around =flyttade runthunter = jägareGathers = samlarSpears = spjutYams = jams ( en sorts sötpotatis)Tribal = stamSettlers = bosättareeach = varjeTerritory = territorium, områdeBeliefs = trooldest = äldstaCivilisation = civilisation

First Encounter with White Settlers

The aborigine people had never seen white people until Captain James Cook landed in Botany Bay in 1770. They were shocked to see these white people in their strange clothes.

When the aborigines first saw the ships of the ”First Fleet”enter Botany Bay in 1778 with so many white skinned people they thought they were the spirits of their dead ancestors (after all they were so white). These were the first European settlers led by Captain Arthur Phillip.

until = tillsShocked = chockadestrange = konstigaFleet = flottaenter = komma in iSkinned = hyadSpirits = själarAncestor = förfäderled by = ledd av

What happened?

At first the Aborigines were friendly towards the visitors but did not understand the way white people behaved:• Why did the white walk on aborigine sacred

sites and dig up aborigine graves?• Why did they boss each other around and

beat and hang people?• Why did they chop down trees and take food

without asking?• Why were they mean and selfish towards

each other and not sharing?Picture:sharkbay.org

Towards = emotVisitors = besökareBehaved = uppförde sigSacred sites = heliga platserDig up = gräva uppgraves = gravarBoss each other around = kör med någonChop down = hugga nedwithout = utan attMean = elakselfish = egoistiskaSharing = dela

ConflictWhen the aborigines realised that the white men were not the spirits of their dead ancestors and that the settlers were taking more and more of their land and destroying the trees and wild life they began to fight back.

The aborigines killed a number of the settlers. The settlers began killing and poisoning the aborigines. They also bit by bit destroyed the land and wild animals they lived on.

realised = förstoddestroy = förstörawild life = djurliva number of = någrapoisoning =förgiftabit by bit = bit för bit

DiseasesWhite settlers took with them diseases the aborigines had never had before (diseases from Europe at the time).

Aborigines got smallpox and even the simple cold. many died. In two years smallpox had killed almost half the aborigine people around Sydney.

Photo:http://www.faithinterface.com.au/

diseases = sjukdomarat that time = vid den tidensmallpox = smittkopparcold = förkylning

The British settlers said that before their came to Australia no humans lived there. That was the reason for taking whatever they wanted.

When more and more white settlers moved in and took the good lands the aborigines were pushed away into the land where no white people would live. Their families were broken up, their children taken away from them and sent to be "civilised", their sacred sites destroyed and their wild animals hunted.

This went on well into the twentieth century. The aboriginal population went from 300,000 when the first white settlers arrived to only about 60,000 people.

humans = människorreason = anledningwhatever = vad som helstpushed away = tryckt undanbroken up = deladecivilised = civiliserade ( leva som de vita)well into = en bra bit in i

ApologyMuch have become better over the last years. The government has tried to give back land to the Aborigines and told them to rebuild their culture and lives.

On the 13th February 2008 the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, made an apology to the Aborigines for how they have been treated in the past.

There is still a long way to go before the Aborigines are treated as good as the white people! last years = senaste åren

government = regeringenrebuild = ta tillbaka, bygga uppapology = ursäkttreated = behandladestill = fortfarande

Write and talk about

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1. Skriv ned 3 saker du inte visste om aboriginerna! 2.Vems fel var det att det blev konfliker?3. Varför tror du att britterna sa att det inte bodde några människor i Australien innan de kom?4. Varför tror du att det var möjligt för de vita att ta aboriginernas land?5. Har detta hänt något annat folk någon annanstans tidigare?