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Originally Posted by Thunder Bow
No. First Nation people would be the have nots. The racial and class issue is within our society as a whole.
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There are not only the 'have nots', they are the 'what we are not' according to the colonial settlers. In Saids expose on 'Orientism' he sums it up. Aboriginal peoples of Australia have never ceded sovereignty of the Aboriginal nation through any treaty with the colonial settlers, and because of that, the 'invasion' of Australia is ongoing. Aboriginal scholars are in the process of redressing colonial history as a way of reinstating their heritage as the original occupants of the land. It's a quiet revolution, but it has pervaded the universities, and in a generation from now, Australian history will be redrawn, and the Aboriginal Peoples will hold a more prominent influence in the modern culture...