American Indians and Australian Aborigines

American Indians and Australian Aborigines Traveled a Similar Path

Aboriginal and Native American people remain abysmal.

Why is that?

Try asking an Aborigine or a Native American instead of a government official.

First let's admit that Mixed Breeds, both Native American and Australian Aborigines are not Aliens from another planet they are humans and the governments of both countries own them a lot more than being abused or ignored or both.

You do not have to give them a casino, give them recognition and a place to call home and help getting back on their feet.

There is a colonization connection the indigenous people of Australia and America share.

Both were driven to the brink of annihilation by invaders. Both had their children ripped from their arms and placed into institutional boarding schools intent upon acculturation by whatever means (See the movie Rabbit Proof Fence).

There is a colonization connection the indigenous people of Australia and America share.

Both were driven to the brink of annihilation by invaders. Both had their children ripped from their arms and placed into institutional boarding schools intent upon acculturation by whatever means (See the movie Rabbit Proof Fence).

Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is based on a true story concerning the author's mother, as well as two other mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth.

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Those Native Americans actively involved in addressing and seeking solutions to this problem unanimously agree that it can be traced to the era of Catholic mission boarding schools.

Following a huge cove-up, American bishops concluded that there were credible accusations against nearly 5,000 priests involving the abuse of about 12,000 children and adolescents since 1950. The Indian mission boarding school era began in the 1800s.

Several dioceses, including Tucson, Arizona and San Diego, California, had to seek bankruptcy protection when they were unable to pay the financial settlements ordered by the court on hundreds of claims that had been filed. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles alone was ordered to pay more than $660 million in damages, which represented a substantial share of the more than $2 billion paid out by the U.S. Catholic Church as a whole. To date the Native American children of the United States have not received one farthing.

A series of sex scandals also shook Ireland, where a commission concluded that about 35,000 children were beaten and abused in Catholic children’s homes and orphanages between 1914 and 2000. Will there ever be a similar report on the abuse of Aborigine and American Indian children? Or will the answer always be, “Who gives a damn?”

The Australian and American governments should take a hard look at what happened in this country, Ireland and Germany and then compare notes. And then they should appropriate the funds to allow the Aborigine and Native American people to solve their own problem, because, ironically, no one else does give a damn.