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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assimilate | To become absorbed into a community; to blend into another way of life |
| Indigenous | The term used to describe the ‘first people’ of a particular country |
| Integration | The act of joining two or more things together to make a whole |
| Land rights | Indigenous people’s claims to lad they occupy or used to occupy |
| Native title | Legal recognition of the existence of indigenous people’s law and 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 culture beliefs of an indigenous group |
| Stolen generation | The name given to the generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families. |
| Terra nullius | The Latin term meaning ‘the land of no-one’ |