Health Status of the Australian Aboriginal People and the Native Americans —-A Summary Comparison: Presented at the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health's Symposium, “The Health of Children of Indigenous People, ” Perth, Western Australia, Curtin University of Technology, December 14, 1992.

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerrold M Michael ◽  
Madeline A Michael
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
University Of Technology

scholarly journals Collections without End

Museum Worlds ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-111
Author(s):  
Andrea Witcomb ◽  
Alistair Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
The State ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Library ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Western Australian

The discovery of five photographs in 2018 in the State Library of Western Australia led us to the existence of a forgotten private museum housing the collection of Captain Matthew McVicker Smyth in early-twentieth-century Perth. Captain Smyth was responsible for the selling of Nobel explosives used in the agriculture and mining industries. The museum contained mineral specimens in cases alongside extensive, aesthetically organized displays of Australian Aboriginal artifacts amid a wide variety of ornaments and decorative paintings. The museum reflects a moment in the history of colonialism that reminds us today of forms of dispossession, of how Aboriginal people were categorized in Australia by Western worldviews, and of the ways that collectors operated. Our re-creation brings back into existence a significant Western Australian museum and opens up a new discussion about how such private collections came into existence and indeed, in this instance, about how they eventually end.

scholarly journals Intergenerational influences of hunger and community violence on the Aboriginal people of Western Australia: A review

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Francesca Robertson ◽  
David Coall ◽  
Dan McAullay ◽  
Alison Nannup
Keyword(s):  
Community Violence ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Adverse Health ◽  
Western Australian ◽  
Population Numbers

There is a consensus in the literature that hunger and community violence inaugurates adverse health impacts for survivors and for their descendants. The studied cohorts do not include Western Australian Aboriginal people, although many experienced violence and famine conditions as late as the 1970s. This article describes the pathways and intergenerational impacts of studied cohorts and applies these to the contemporary Western Australian context. The authors found that the intergenerational impacts, compounded by linguistic trauma, may be a contributor to current health issues experienced by Aboriginal people, but these are also contributing to the resurgence in population numbers.

The archive hunter: The life and work of Leslie R. Marchant

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riley Buchanan ◽  
Daniel Elias ◽  
Darren Holden ◽  
Daniel Baldino ◽  
Martin Drum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Early Case ◽  
Aboriginal History ◽  
The University

Professor Leslie R. Marchant was a Western Australian historian of international renown. Richly educated as a child in political philosophy and critical reason, Marchant’s understandings of western political philosophies were deepened in World War Two when serving with an international crew of the merchant navy. After the war’s end, Marchant was appointed as a Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia’s Depart of Native Affairs. His passionate belief in Enlightenment ideals, including the equality of all people, was challenged by his experiences as a Protector. Leaving that role, he commenced his studies at The University of Western Australia where, in 1952, his Honours thesis made an early case that genocide had been committed in the administration of Aboriginal people in Western Australia. In the years that followed, Marchant became an early researcher of modern China and its relationship with the West, and won respect for his archival research of French maritime history in the Asia-Pacific. This work, including the publication of France Australe in 1982, was later recognised with the award of a French knighthood, the Chevalier d’Ordre National du Mèrite, and his election as a fellow to the Royal Geographical Society. In this festschrift, scholars from The University of Notre Dame Australia appraise Marchant’s work in such areas as Aboriginal history and policy, Westminster traditions, political philosophy, Australia and China and French maritime history.

scholarly journals Macquarie–Yaegl Partnership: Community Capability Strengthening Through Western and Indigenous Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Joanne F. Jamie
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Indigenous Science ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Aboriginal Elders ◽  
Community Capability

The rich customary knowledge possessed by Indigenous people from around the world has provided intellectually stimulating academic research opportunities and has been a successful avenue for healthcare and drug discovery as well as commercial native foods, flavours, fragrances, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, and agricultural products. When conducted with benefit sharing and reciprocity as core agenda, such research can provide community capability strengthening and immense rewards for both the Indigenous people and the academic research team involved, as well as benefiting potentially many others. This account shares my experiences as a natural products and medicinal chemistry academic, of working with Australian Aboriginal Elders, most notably from Yaegl Country of northern New South Wales, on investigating their bush medicines. Together we have facilitated the recognition and preservation of Yaegl Country customary knowledge and through initiation of a science leadership program, the National Indigenous Science Education Program, we have promoted educational attainment and STEM engagement in Australian Aboriginal youth. While this account is authored as my own personal statement of the Macquarie–Yaegl partnership, I am indebted to the Yaegl Aboriginal Elders and other Australian Aboriginal people I have worked with, and my university, school and community collaborators, my research team and student volunteers, who have all enabled the outcomes described in this account to be realised, and have made the experience so rewarding. I am also thankful to the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for the recognition of the value of this work through the award of a 2019 Royal Australian Chemical Institute Citation.

Variables Associated With Native Americans' Health Status

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne E. Harrington ◽  
Felicia Wilkins-Turner ◽  
Chung-Fan Ni ◽  
Diane Lierbert ◽  
Vallerie Ellien
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Native Americans

Considering the Impact of Social Media on Contemporary Improvement of Australian Aboriginal Health: Scoping Review (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy Walker ◽  
Claire Palermo ◽  
Karen Klassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Health Messages ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Torres Strait Islander People ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Torres Strait

BACKGROUND Social media may have a significant role in influencing the present and future health implications among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, yet there has been no review of the role of social media in improving health. OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine the extent of health initiatives using social media that aimed to improve the health of Australian Aboriginal communities. METHODS A scoping review was conducted by systematically searching databases CINAHL Plus; PubMed; Scopus; Web of Science, and Ovid MEDLINE in June 2017 using the terms and their synonyms “Aboriginal” and “Social media.” In addition, reference lists of included studies and the Indigenous HealthInfonet gray literature were searched. Key information about the social media intervention and its impacts on health were extracted and data synthesized using narrative summaries. RESULTS Five papers met inclusion criteria. All included studies were published in the past 5 years and involved urban, rural, and remote Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people aged 12-60 years. No studies reported objective impacts on health. Three papers found that social media provided greater space for sharing health messages in a 2-way exchange. The negative portrayal of Aboriginal people and negative health impacts of social media were described in 2 papers. CONCLUSIONS Social media may be a useful strategy to provide health messages and sharing of content among Aboriginal people, but objective impacts on health remain unknown. More research is necessary on social media as a way to connect, communicate, and improve Aboriginal health with particular emphasis on community control, self-empowerment, and decolonization.

scholarly journals Risk factors and comorbidities for invasive pneumococcal disease in Western Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people

Pneumonia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye J. Lima ◽  
Deborah Lehmann ◽  
Aoiffe McLoughlin ◽  
Catherine Harrison ◽  
Judith Willis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease ◽  
Pneumococcal Disease ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Western Australian

The First Calvinist Encounters with New World Religions

2021 ◽  
pp. 252-269
Author(s):  
Mark Valeri
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
New World ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Jean De Lery ◽  
Travel Writings ◽  
Civic Virtues ◽  
Cultural Observation

European Calvinists first encountered Native Americans during three brief expeditions of French adventurers to Brazil and Florida during the mid-sixteenth century. Although short-lived and rarely noted, these expeditions produced a remarkable commentary by Huguenots on the Tupinamba people of Brazil and the Timucuan people of Florida. Informed by Calvinist understandings of human nature and humanist approaches to cultural observation, authors such as Jean de Léry produced narratives that posed European and Christian decadence against the sociability and honesty of Native Americans. They used their experiences in America to suggest that Huguenots in France, like indigenous people in America, ought to be tolerated for their civic virtues whatever their doctrinal allegiances. Huguenot travel writings indicate variations in Calvinist approaches to Native peoples from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries.

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