People and places
The Dessert region in central Australia where Aboriginal groups were forced to live.
What is the outback?
The year the British fleet arrived in Australia.
What is 1788?
The Latin phrase meaning empty land.
What is Terra Nullius?
The small marks the aboriginal artists use to make patterns and pictures.
What are dots?
The deadly disease brought by settlers that killed many Aboriginal people.
What is smallpox?
This British Captain claimed the east coast of australia for britain in 1770.
Who is Captain James Cook?
The year the Aboriginal people were counted as australian citizens.
What is 1967?
The Aboriginal name for their spiritual beliefs and creation stories.
What is the dream time?
Number of years the Aboriginals lived in Australia.
Over 65,000?
Government ran places with churches, where Aboriginal's lived.
What are reserves(and missions)?
The bay where the first fleet landed.
What is Bontan Bay?
The year the Mabo court case that ended the false idea of terra nullius.
What is 1992
The name for the violent battles between settlers and aboriginal groups.
What are the frontier wars?
Besides telling Dreamstories, dot pictures often act as these showing waterholes and sacred places.
What are maps?
From the early 1900's to the 1970's the government took Aboriginal children from their families, They are called.
What is the stolen generation.