Indigenous Australia
over 50 000 years
How old is the earliest recorded evidence of Aboriginal occupation in Australia?
Stanza.
What is the name given for a paragraph in a poem?
South Australia
Which Australian state does Eckermann come from?
Person
Identity can be defined as "the qualities and/or beliefs that make a particular ______”
Maya Angelou
The US poet who wrote 'The Caged Bird'.
An animal or plant that has special significance to an individual or group of people.
What is a totem?
The sun is shining.
What is an example of alliteration?
German
What is the cultural heritage of her adoptive parents?
'Eyes'
This poem of Eckermann's focuses on individual identity the most.
African/ Nigerian.
The ethnicity of TED speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who spoke about 'The Danger of a Single Story'.
Colonisation.
What is the process that the British started in Australia from 1788?
That man is a pig when he eats.
What is an example of a metaphor?
Her biological parents
Who did Eckermann not meet until she was an adult?
Oombulgarri
This poem looks at collective identity through a shared trauma from displacement by the government in recent history.
Stereotype
An unfair representation of a group of people, often meant to be degrading.
The Mother.
What typical family member is the landscape referred to most First Nations peoples around the world?
She shot her gun upwards into the grey, icy early morning air.
What is an example of imagery?
$215 000
How much money Eckermann won in a US poetry competition.
The 'Bringing Them Home' report.
What is the name of the government report from 1997 that acknowledged "the continuing feelings of grief and loss that individuals and communities experienced while trying to gain some sense of identity".
Assimilation
The destruction of cultural identity by forcing people to accept another language and culture.
Torres Strait Islanders.
What is the other indigenous group of people in Australia who live between Queensland and Papua New Guinea?
Enjambment
What is it called when a sentence in a poem continues onto the next line without punctuation?
The Stolen Generations
Eckermann, her mother and her grandmother were all stolen, tricked or adopted away from their birth families - what was this stage in Australian history called?
Identity
This can be collective and individual.
over 50 000 years (Aboriginal Australia).
How long the longest continuing culture in the world has existed.