Sentence examples for indigenous frontier from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the only monument to Indigenous frontier war resistance in Canberra stands inside the National Gallery of Australia in the form of 200 hollow log coffins – beautiful art to some, but for many Indigenous Australians it's a revered piece of spiritually significant commemorative architecture.

It's easy to forget sometimes, in light of the weighty subject material (the violent colonial frontier, modern Indigenous social disadvantage, pre-contact tribal life and modern settlement travails) that has largely defined Gulpilil's acting career, that he is also naturally comedic.

Why not, then, combine such a keeping place with a memorial to those Indigenous people killed in the frontier war – and a museum/educational institution dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culture and history?

So, too, does the National Gallery of Australia (the only national institution in Canberra with a monument dedicated to the many tens of thousands of Indigenous Australians who died in frontier conflict).

I have consistently written about them as an embarrassing metaphorical reminder of the war memorial's intransigent refusal to depict in its galleries the wars that took place across the colonial frontier between the Indigenous, and British and Australian soldiers, settlers, police, militias and paramilitaries.

The newly formed American cavalry adopted tactics based on experiences fighting over vast distances during the Mexican War (1846 1848) and against indigenous peoples on the western frontier, abandoning some European traditions.

Around 50 per cent of the children are from Sudan, and the 50 per cent are indigenous children from the Sudan frontier region.

For the indigenous people of Southern Africa the frontiers between different modes of subsistence presented new dangers and opportunities.

But Myall Creek is unique: it is the only massacre on the colonial or post-colonial frontier where non-Indigenous murderers of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people have been convicted.

In south-central Brazil coffee plantations spread westward, pushing back small foodstuff production; in Argentina the ranching frontier pressed southward, displacing indigenous groups.

The Australian archives are filled with stories of the brutal treatment of Indigenous children on the post-invasion frontier, not least in the church-run missions.