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Aboriginal Australian people have lived on the continent for over 40,000 years. They were a hunting-gathering people, with a total population, prior to colonization, estimated to be at least 300,000 people, and possibly as high as 1,000,000 ( Bourke, 1994). From the onset of colonization in 1788, as was the case for many other Indigenous peoples, the subsequent centuries were characterized by genocide; by forced removal from land, peoples, families; by enslavement; and by assimilation and destruction of cultural ways. Despite this, the fact that Indigenous people have sustained their identity, and are experiencing a cultural renaissance, is a testimony to the determination of the human spirit.
An earlier version of this chapter appears in P. Dudgeon , D. Garvey & H. Pickett (Eds.), (2000). Working with Indigenous Australians: A handbook for psychologists. Perth : Gunada Press .
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Dudgeon, P., Mallard, J., Oxenham, D., Fielder, J. (2002). Contemporary Aboriginal Perceptions of Community. In: Fisher, A.T., Sonn, C.C., Bishop, B.J. (eds) Psychological Sense of Community. The Plenum Series in Social/Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0719-2_13
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