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History Topic 3 Definitions 2011
Question | Answer |
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Assimilate | To become absorbed into a community; to blend into another way of life |
Indigenous | The term used to describe the 'first peoples' of a particular country |
Integration | The act of joining things together to make a whole |
Land rights | Indigenous people's claims to land they occupy or used to occupy |
Native title | Legal recognition of the existence of indigenous people's law and land ownership before 1788 |
Repression | The act of keeping people under control, allowing them little freedom |
Sacred site | A site that is important to the spiritual or cultural beliefs of an indigenous group |
Self determination | The right of a group to choose and control its destiny and development |
Stolen generation | The name given to the generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander children who were forcibly removed from their families |
Terra nullius | Latin term meaning the land of no-one |