11 History Notes 10 Displacing Indigenous People
11 History Notes 10 Displacing Indigenous People
11 History Notes 10 Displacing Indigenous People
Sources
Oral History
of natives
Historical and fiction
work written by natives
Galleries and Museums
of native art
Why weren't we
told by Henry
Reynolds
This theme tells the story of what European settlers did to the native peoples of Australia
and America. The natives and the Europeans represented competing. notions of
Civilization.
European Impartation
1. Spain and Portugal did not expand thin empire after the 17th Century
2. Replaced by France, Holland and Britain extending trading activities and established
colonies in America, Africa and Asia.
3. reland was also a colony of England.
4. Prospect of Profit drove people to establish colony
5. Nature of the control on colony was varied
6. Trading company became political power in South Asia, defeated rulers, retained
administrative system.
7. Collected taxes and built railway to make trade easier, excavated mines and established
big plantation.
8. Africa was divided as colonies among Europeans.
North America
The native Peoples
1. Might have came from Asia through a land bridge across the Bering straits, 30000 years
before.
2. Lived in groups along river valley
3. Goods were obtained not by buying, but by gifts
4. Numerous language but not written down
5. Friendly and welcoming to Europeans
6. Natives addicted of Alcohol and tobacco and so European dictated the terms of trade
AustraIia
1. Early settlers were convicts deported from England on Condition not to return again.
2. Ejected natives from land and took over for cultivation without remorse.
3. Natives were Employed in farms, Later Chinese immigrants provided cheap labour
4. Australia's non - white policy.
5. 'The great Australian Silence' - the silence of historians about the aborigins.
6. Multi culturalism, an offcial in Australia from 1974, an equal respect to all culture .
7. White Australia policy ends in 1974 and Asian immigrants allowed
8. 'Terra nullins' legally invalid and recognise native claims to land from be fare 1770.
9. 'ANational sorry day' as apology for the children lost from the 1820's to the 1970's
ModeI Question
2 Marks Questions
1. How did expansion of USA take Place ?
A.i) Large areas were acquired by Purchase Like Lousiana (1803) and Alaska (1867)
ii) By war - much of Southern USA was won From Mexico.
iii) Assigned by treaty with great Britain in 1846.
5 Marks Questions :
1. How did USA solve the problem of Slavery ?
Ans.
i) The northern states argued for ending slavery which they condemned as an inhuman
Practice.
ii) Southern States Plantation Owner bought slaves in Africa to bring USA.
iii) Protests by anti slavery group led to a ban on slave trade.
iv) Africans who were in the USA remained slaves, as did their children.
v) n 1861 - 65 a civil war took place in which northern states won to abolish slavery.
vi) n 1968 African American won the battle of civil liberties.
10 Marks Questions :
1. How did Natives of a North America lose their land ? What were their sufferings ?
Ans.
i) Natives forced to move by signing treaties or selling lands .
ii) Cheated by taking more land or paying less.
iii) Depriving the native peoples of their land was seen wrong.
iv) Cherokee tribe governed by the state but could not enjoy the rights of citizens
v) A judgement of Chief Court that cherokee were a distinct community occuping its own
territory in which law of Georgia had no force.
vi) Andrew Jackson - ' Trail of Tears'
vii) Natives were called lazy, not skilled, not learning English or dressing Properly