Booming technological development of the west and their colonial policy led to an ironic situation; a situation where indigenous people had to find a place in their own land. The fear of being an outcast and getting dispossessed always gripped their lives. If we check our past, we can see that history either ignored or mistreated them. Their life of rich traditions and accumulated knowledge ended in despair. Aboriginals of Australia were people who weaved their lives to nature; like a symbiotic system. Evils like colonisation, bio piracy, mining, deforestation, exploitation and urbanization thwarted their life and created a fissure in that bond. In its official website, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues says: Indigenous people around the world have sought recognition of their identities, their ways of life and their right to traditional lands, territories and natural resources, yet throughout history, their rights have b...
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