Contemporary+Aboriginal+Spiritualities+-+Glossary+of+Terms\SST+and+Sentences

__** Find-a-word activity: do it! :) @http://www.scriptsocket.com/user/myfindaword.php?a_A3gVY51p2**__ __** 1. Kinship **__ __:__ the system of relationships traditionally accepted by a particular culture and the rights and obligations they involve.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** The rights and obligations of the relationships I’ve formed within my tribe are very important to me. Such a relationship is known as a kinship.

__** 2. Country: **__ term used by Aboriginal people to refer to the land to which they belong and their place of Dreaming.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** I have a very special spiritual connection to my country and that gives a sense of belonging.

__** 3. Elders **__ __**:**__ key persons and keepers of various knowledge within Aboriginal communities. They are chosen and accepted by their own communities: (a) Elders in respect of kinship and as overseas of many Dreaming tracks; that is, they are ‘Boss over Country’. (b) Elders in respect of being leaders of large extended family networks. (c) Elders in respect of knowledge acquired and services given within the community. ** Here it is in a sentence: ** The elders of my tribe are important to me because they are the keepers of knowledge that I am interested in learning about. They can also tell me tribal stories whenever I wish to hear them. __** 4. Assimilation: **__ A nineteenth century idea that Aboriginal peoples should be ‘improved’ by being ‘civilised’ and christianised. From the 1930’s, assimilation was government policy and in the 1950’s legislation was introduced to enforce it.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** I really hated the assimilation policy of the 1930’s. The Aborigines of the time were ‘improve’ themselves, to be like the Anglo Saxons.
 * __5. Evangelise:__ ** Literally means to ‘teach the gospel’. Bringing people to Christianity – ‘winning souls for Christ’. They were also the motivation that missionaries believed that their own missionary activity, particularly the welfare aspect of it, was qualifying them for eternal life. (Mt. 25: 31-46), regardless of how successful they were in ‘winning souls for Christ’.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** To evangelise means to teach the gospel. I love to speak about God and my experiences with God to try and proclaim the Gospel. That is why I became an evangelist.


 * __6. Land Rights:__ ** Claims by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to repossession and compensation for White use of their lands and sacred sites.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** An Aboriginal tribe fought for repossession and compensation of the land that they had previously owned. They have a spiritual connection with it that will never disappear. That is called fighting for Land Rights.


 * __7. Native Title:__ ** The name given by the High Court of Australia to indigenous property rights recognised by the court as handed down in the Mabo decision (3 June, 1992).
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** After fighting for Land Rights, the government finally recognised my indigenous property rights. Native Title has changed my life for the better.


 * __8. Self-Determination:__ ** It’s about achieving the full and effective participation of Indigenous peoples in Australian society. This involves recognition of the cultural distinctiveness and diversity of Indigenous people.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** After the assimilation and integration policies ended, self-determination was in progress. This involved the Aborigines finally able to express their culture.

** __10. Segregation:__ ** The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or commercial facilities, especially as a form of discrimination.
 * __9. Reconciliation:__ ** the ending of conflict or renewing of a friendly relationship between disputing people or groups / the making of two or more apparently conflicting things consistent or compatible.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** After the apology in 2008, the Aborigines and Anglo Saxons finally made peace and were ready to put the bad times behind them, therefore establishing reconciliation.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** I remember when the Aborigines and the Anglo Saxons were separated and weren’t able to engage with each other. This is better known as segregation.

__** 11. Dispossession: **__ To deprive (another) of the possession or occupancy of something, such as real property.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** Aborigines have struggled with the issue of dispossession for a long time. They have had their land, their identity, their rights and their children taken away from them prior to the apology in 2008.


 * __12. Wik Decision:__ ** handed down by the High Court in December 1996 (Wik Peoples v Queensland), determined that native title could co-exist with other rights on land held under a pastoral lease.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** The Wik Decision was much like the Mabo Decision. It gave recognition to the Aborigines’ claims that they owned land.


 * __13. Mabo Decision:__ ** It overthrew the legal fiction of terra nullius – that is, that the land of Australia belonged to no one when the British arrived in 1778.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** The Mabo Decision was a mind-blowing breakthrough for Aboriginal Land Rights and Native Title. It set the precedent for all Aborigines who wished to reclaim their land to do so.

__** 14. Stolen Generation: **__ The Stolen Generations (also Stolen Children) is a term used to describe those children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments. The removals occurred in the period between approximately 1869 and 1969, although in some places children were still being taken in the 1970s.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** It is really horrible what the Stolen Generation went through. I can’t even imagine what pain they must have went through. Being taken away from your loved ones is heartbreaking.

__** 15. Mission **__** __:__ ** An aboriginal settlement that may or may not once have been a religious institution. A person is described as living ‘in or off’ a mission, rather than ‘in or at’. The name derived from the original purpose of many Aboriginal settlements – as a mission of one of the various denominations of Christians. When the government, and later, communities took over the management, the name often remained, or was applied to the communities that had in fact never been missions but rather government ‘reserves’. Missions were established to ‘protect’ the Aboriginal race. 
 * Here it is in a sentence: **


 * __16. Integration:__ ** A form of assimilation that recognises many Aboriginals’ wish to keep a distinct identity.
 * Here it is in a sentence: ** Although the integration policy was to help Aborigines, it merely confused them. The previous assimilation policy taught them to blend in with Anglo Saxons and then suddenly, their identity needs were recognised. That is why self-determination was established. To help the Aborigines find their identity.