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The idea that someone can become an Aboriginal is a question of being accepted and identifying as something else. Someone migrating from Another Country to Australia becomes an 'Australian' hence they have become something else. If Aboriginal people were the ruling class Australia people would be known as 'Aboriginals' rather than Australians. It basically comes down to how open minded people are. The term Aboriginal is a blanket term and one that is used in a generalised way that imposes a stereotype that Aboriginal people are one race with one language and one set of beliefs. This is not the case. Before colonisation Australia was made up of hundreds of tribes with different languages and cultural practices. The point is that if you want to become something else you can. You may not have the same blood but that does not mean that you cannot become something else based on that fact alone.
A person can become an Aboriginal without having Aboriginal blood.
In a bureaucratic sense it is possible: Demonstrated by the fact that on paper an Aboriginal person can become an 'Australian'.
In a more traditional sense if a person was to learn,practice, and live in a traditional manner, and be accepted, and/or identify as Aboriginal they clearly have in a sense become Aboriginal.
The opposing argument in my opinion is like arguing that the royal family has a bloodline that is a higher order than that of another, and that to be a royal you must already be a royal. it is a futile argument. Bloodlines change and evolve and never stay the same forever. Their are people that identify as Aboriginal who have a small percentage of Aboriginal blood there are those who are full blood, there are those who have no Aboriginal blood
In reality it is how you live, treat others, and identify as a person that defines what you are or what you become.
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What are Neville Bonner's greatest achievement?
To become the 1st Aboriginal politician.
What year did it become illegal to shoot aboriginal people in Australia?
It was always illegal but it was tolerated. ‐ 1816 Martial Law (NSW). This proclamation declared Indigenous Australians could be shot on sight if armed with spears, or even unarmed, if they were within a certain distance of houses or settlements ‐ 1824 (Tas). Settlers are authorised to shoot Aboriginal peoples
What were the superstitions of the Amerindians?
They belief more or less in things that they created from clay or carved from wood, such as things like zemis which is in breif:A supernatural being of the aboriginal Tainos of the West Indies or an object that houses the being, such as an idol. They believed that if they placed them in the fields where they farmed the land would become fertile.
When did the Aborigines become full citizens of Australia?
Aborigines became British Citizens when Australia was claimed by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770. Aboriginal men in South Australia were given the vote in 1854 at the same time that all white South Australian men received the vote. Similarly, Aboriginal and White South Australian women received the vote in the 1890s. When Federation was declared in 1901 Aborigines were given the vote only those states in which they already had the vote, which was all states except Queensland and Western Australia. In 1948 all Australians, white and black, became Australian Citizens. In 1967 an overwhelming majority of Australians decided at a referendum that Aborigines should be counted in the census.
When did Bennelong the Aboriginal become friends with the white people?
Bennelong (1764?-1813),an Australian indigenous native was captured in November 1789 and brought to the settlement at Sydney Cove at the behest of GovernorArthur Phillip. By doing this the governor hoped to from him about the natives' customs and language. Bennelong enjoyed life among the white men, loved their food, acquired a taste for liquor, learned to speak English. He became particularly attached to the governor, in whose house he became a guest.
