Research Of ATSI Communities Where You Work

[muskaan]

project-Research Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities
Student instructions
• Using the internet or local library research Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities in the area where you work, or are undertaking your work placement.
• As part of your research, consult with appropriate persons to access local knowledge of Aboriginal/or Torres Strait Islander cultures.
• Identify any significant historical issues in relation to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and the land that the service is on, including at regional and state levels.
• Reflect on and document the contemporary impacts of historical issues including those relating to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, such as the impact of colonisation, historical events and issues on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.
• Write a short report (approximately 500 words) summarising your findings, and explaining how this information can be taken into account when implementing the curriculum, including activities, experiences, customs and events within the service and promoting inclusive behaviours.


my ans-
NWAICA
Northwest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Association


NWAICA is the “Northwest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Association”, a not for profit indigenous community organisation that provides services, assistance & support to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, families and community in Northwest Brisbane.
NWAICA’s aim is to improve the social, educational, physical, cultural and economic well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in Northwest Brisbane. In doing this NWAICA aims to provide quality service and supports to sustain culture, community and country by offering programs such as; Breakout and multiple community involvement and assistance projects.


Australia’s aboriginal culture probably represents the oldest surviving culture in the world. Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centred on a belief in the dreamtime.
Aboriginal have developed unique instruments and folk styles. The didgeridoo is commonly considered the national instrument of Australian Aborigines.
It was traditionally played by Arnhem Land people and then only by men.
Indigenous Australians did not develop a system of writing.

Red cliffs were once known by the Aboriginal name, Kau-in Kau-in, meaning blood red or the cliffs of running blood.
The original inhabitants of the Redcliffe district were the Ningi Ningi Aboriginal people.
Aboriginal people have been living around Moreton bay during the past 2000-4000 years.

The Ningi Ningi people are identified as being the southern most clan of the undambi people of the sunshine coast. The word Ningi Ningi is believed to mean ‘oysters’
Aboriginal lifestyles in the area included ceremonies, bungwall gathering, and dugong preparation and cooking.
The Ningi Ningi people continued to live in the Redcliffe area into the late 1880s and 1890s.
Most common problems the Aboriginal people are facing is Health, Education, unemployment, poverty and their land problem.
The undambi, as a tribal group is not accepted by Gubbi Gubbi elders nor
the Federal court where a claim for Native Title using this name was dismissed.
An application for Native Title made by the people claiming to be ‘undambi’ in 1997
was not accepted by the Federal Court in 1999.

To appreciate the contemporary realities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, their cultural ways of life needs to be understood.
At the time of colonisation there were approximately 260 distinct language groups and 500 dialects. Indigenous Australians lived in small family group and were semi-nomadic, with each family group living in a defined territory. each group had their own distinct history and culture.
Land is fundamental to Indigenous people, both individually and collectively. Concepts of Indigenous land ownership were and are different from European legal systems.
European settlement moved from Botany Bay outwards, as settlers claimed land for economic purposes. As their lands become more increasingly occupied, Aboriginal people gravitated towards European settlements because their own food supplies were disrupted.
There were also many examples of Aboriginal groups across the country successfully adapting to colonisation and making new independent lives.

(Source: AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Studies). (2008).
http://www.nwaica.org.au/about/)
Contemporary issues:
Stolen generation
Descent, country and kinship
Being Indigenous
Racism

Information can be taken into account when implementing the curriculum:
 Know our students

 Quality teaching practices for all students
Using variety of ways to make sense of ideas.
- presenting in different formats or styles
Using peer and team work.
Preparing for the future
Direct teaching of routines and organisational strategies;
Accessing technology;
Engaging in team work - using AVTs, teacher aides, year or subject area teaching
teams in all stages of the curriculum cycles.
 Contemporary education practise
Supportive classroom environment
Recognition of difference
 Universal Design for Learning- is an approach to teaching and learning that focuses on providing maximum flexibility in all aspects of teaching and learning to cater to the wide range of student needs and interests.

(source http://education.qld.gov.au/staff/learn ... ching.html)

Language Activities
- Using children’s books in a variety of languages e.g. showing children
that the storybook which is written in lots of languages,
which mean children, all over the world, are reading the same books.
Crafts
- on craft table Provide a variety of materials to make and explore
that are used by different cultures e.g. leaves and sticks as well as
brushes for painting.
- Use differing colours of paint. Talk about how different cultures use
lots of bright colours or differing shades of one colour. E.g Filipinos use
bright reds and yellows whereas other cultures may use rich earth
colours such as ochre and brown.
(source: Siraj-Blatchford I. “Supporting Identity, Diversity and Language in the Early
Clarke, P. Years” Open University Press 2000, http://www.noahsark.net.au)

hi..lorina can you please advice me on this if m going on right track..and what informations i can still add in to my ans.
thanks

[Lorina]

QR_BBPOST The Ningi Ningi people are identified as being the southern most clan of the undambi people of the sunshine coast. The word Ningi Ningi is believed to mean ‘oysters’
Aboriginal lifestyles in the area included ceremonies, bungwall gathering, and dugong preparation and cooking.
The Ningi Ningi people continued to live in the Redcliffe area into the late 1880s and 1890s.

Maybe you could discuss how you could implement this into the centre such as Acknowledgement Of Country and this may also give you ideas:

Including ATSI Cultures In Your Centre

I think the rest of your response is on the right track!

,
Lorina

[muskaan]

thanks Lorina.

[Lorina]

You're welcome!

,
Lorina