@RBradley1980; the website below also presents a lot of factual material but with a rather different perspective to that you provided:"... If you were to define your Aboriginality you could answer these three questions as follows [7]:
- Descent: "I am a descendant of the Ngunnawal Nation from the South Slopes and Southern Tablelands of NSW".
- Identification: "I am an Aboriginal person and a proud descendent of the Biripi people of Taree and I proudly identify as an Aboriginal person".
- Community: "I am known as an Aboriginal person within the Aboriginal community of Yass, where my father was born and in the Chippendale/Redfern areas of Sydney where I grew up and in Earlwood where I now live". …"
"... Problem: No standard for recognising AboriginalitySeveral problems impede recognition of Aboriginality:
- Organisations do not recognise each other's paperwork.
- There appears to be a lack of consistency between agencies (some have accepted statutory declarations).
- There is no governing body regarding Aboriginality. It is left up to the individual organisations to interpret government rules.
- No national register or directory of Aboriginal people exists. …"
https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/aboriginal-identity-who-is-aboriginal
"... Hundreds of massacres left thousands of Aboriginal people dead, a history many Australians struggle to accept. A brave few started documenting what happened. …"
https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/massacres-the-frontier-violence-thats-hard-to-accept
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