Displacing Indigenous Peoples History - Displacing Indigenous Peoples

What do you know about Red-Indians?

Who were Torres Strait Islanders?

Why did the people of Poland shift towards America during 15th century? Give two reasons.

Where did John Cabot reach?

What do you know about W.E.H. Stanner?

What do you understand by 'Imperialismo? Name a few countries who encouraged imperialism.

How did the exchange of goods between the European traders and the natives of NorthAmerica prove beneficial for the Europeans?

What were the views of natives regarding trade and the Europeans?

How did the Europeans justify the displacement of the natives?

Discuss the physiographic features of the continent of North America.

Thomas Jefferson, third President of the USA, and a contemporary of Wordsworth, spoke of the natives in words that would lead to a public outcry today:
This unfortunate race which we have been taking so much pains to civilise have justified extermination.
Questions:

1. Who was Thomas Jefferson?
2. Why was Thomas Jefferson known for?
3. What were his views about the Native Americans?

'Kathy my sister with the torn heart, I don't know how to thank you For your dreamtime stories of joy and grief Written on paperbark. You were one of the dark children I wasn't allowed to play with Riverbank campers, the wrong colour (I couldn't turn you white.) So it was late I met you, Late I began to know They hadn't told me the land I loved Was taken out of your hands.'-Two Dreamtimes', written for Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Questions:

1. What do you know about Judith Wright?
2. How did the European settlers treat the natives?
3. How did things begin to change for the natives in Australia?

Other than the use of English, what other features of English economic and social life do you notice in nineteenth-century USA?

Imagine an encounter in California in about 1880 between four people: a former African slave, a Chinese labourer, a German who had come out in the Gold Rush, and a native of the Hopi tribe, and narrate their conversation.

On the given map, mark and locate the extent of the U.S.A.

On the map of Australia mark and locate the following:

1. Perth.
2. Sydney.
3. Adelaide.
4. Darwin.
5. Melbourne.
6. Canberra.