UK museum returns human skull to Australia

Aboriginal elder Major Sumner, wearing a loincloth and chanting a dirge, danced Wednesday in front of the Edwardian facade of the World Museum Liverpool to mark the return of a skull taken from Australia more than a century ago.

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Aborigine Apology to Be Given Wednesday

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Sunday that many Australians disagree with a national apology to generations of Aboriginal children who were seized from their families, but he said the act will remove a "blight on the nation's soul."

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Proposed Aborigine Apology Released

Parliament will apologize next week to thousands of Aborigines who were forcibly removed from their families under policies that lasted for decades, but the proposed apology does not include any financial compensation.

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Aboriginal Leaders to Welcome Lawmakers

Aborigines have long lived on the fringe of Australian society, but they will take center stage when Parliament holds a historic ceremony to acknowledge the nation's capital is built on their land.

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Aboriginals Sue U.K. Museum Over Bones

A Tasmanian aboriginal group is suing Britain's Museum of Natural History to keep it from conducting tests on bones, teeth and skulls taken from the island, saying Monday that the experiments would desecrate the corpses.

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Gang Violence Shows Plight of Aborigines

Gang violence that is tearing apart a remote indigenous community in northern Australia has focused attention on the shocking state of many Aboriginal families' lives.

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MONTREAL Reading the 1995 edition of the federal Citizenship guide, an immigrant to Canada might have been forgiven for thinking he or she was signing up to join the Boy Scouts or the Girl Guides.

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This story from Chile reminds us that we have a problem in the US with the care and preservation of ancient artifacts.

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A private company has won a new five-year contract to transport prisoners in Victoria, Australia, despite being implicated in the death of a man in custody early last year in WA (an imprisoned Aboriginal elder was cooked to death)

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The UN Human Rights Committee has set out numerous violations of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Australia including race-based violations involving gross discrimination against Aborigines.

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Aboriginal leader Professor Patrick Dodson says modern challenges such as climate change could provide a way for Australians to learn from Indigenous knowledge and values.

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Report: "One in four prisoners in Australia is Indigenous and their over-representation in the jail system is only getting worse " [Indigenous Australians or Aboriginals are only 5% of the Australian population]

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For a sore throat, the roots of a type of plant that grows in the water. For a fever, the gum and needles of a spruce tree, boiled together and swallowed first thing in the morning.

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Taser gun sets alight an aboriginal man

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We never never seem to learn By Rollo Manning - posted Thursday, 9 July 2009 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!

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This village elder in Australia is the last speaker of his dialect of aboriginal languages. Academics have attempted to save the language, but it will likely fade away as have at least 200 other aboriginal languages.

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Dr Lindy Edwards: "Australia held up a great vision of a democratic, egalitarian society, and we committed atrocities to protect that vision. That is the contradiction that lies at the heart of the Australian experience" (!@#$)

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A 26-year-old Indigenous Australian man died in the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) on Friday afternoon after being diagnosed with the virus on Thursday. He was suffering from several serious conditions.

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Four hundred kilometres in security van, outside temperature reached 42 degrees C, inside the surface of this metal cell steadily increased to over 56C. By mid-afternoon, the Aboriginal man in custody Mr Ward was dead.

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The family of an Australian Aboriginal elder who died after being "cooked" in the back of a scorching hot prison van may sue after a coroner branded his treatment inhumane.

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"In 1999, John Pilger returned home to find that the elaborate preparations for the Games overshadowed a hidden world where Aborigines continue to live in Third World conditions. He revealed that some of the greatest sportsmen and women in the world were in fact Aboriginal.

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SYDNEY - THE family of an Australian Aboriginal elder who died after being 'cooked' in the back of a prison van on a scorching hot day is considering suing, they said on Saturday.

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Climate change would force Australia's Aborigines off their traditional lands, resulting in "cultural genocide" and environmental degradation, government-funded human rights body the Human Rights Commission has warned.

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Professor William Rubinstein reviews "Denial, History betrayed" by Tony Taylor - in short "a useful book" but also "highly tendentious", notably in relation to the Aboriginal Genocide in which most died from disease.

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The sounds of a lost language echo across a packed classroom in suburban Sydney as high school children help to revive an ancient part of Australia's rich indigenous culture.

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For generations, archaeologists have been going back and forth about whether the hilltop enclosures of northeastern Ohio served as fortifications or places of ceremony. Charles Whittlesey, an early archaeologist and Civil War veteran, concluded that the Greenwood Village earthwo …

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"In 1890, the naked body of an Aboriginal girl aged 12 to 14 years was found at Albert River near Burketown. She had been 'tied to a bar of iron with a wire rope at ankles, knees, waist, neck and wrists, two iron bullock-bows were through the arms'.

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In all 60 communities, monitoring for E.coli bacteria over the past eight years found average water samples are well below the national standard for drinking water, which requires that 98 per cent of samples are free of the bacteria (e.coli).

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Abundance And Scarcity Mentality In Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Social Contexts: Aboriginal Poverty Mindset

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