These deep funding cuts and "radical reshaping" of programs and policies, as well as multiple government reviews, and the government's hesitation to set a date for a referendum on constitutional recognition have created an "atmosphere of uncertainty" for Indigenous people, read the report.
It's incredibly difficult to remain hopeful as an Indigenous person when reading the outcomes in this report.
The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority said there had been "significant cumulative gains" in some domains and year levels for Indigenous students including reading (years 3 and 5), numeracy (year 5), spelling (year 3), grammar and punctuation (years 3, 5 and 7).
In the 1970s, the intellectual historian, Qian Mu examined and explained Zhu Xi's thought directly in traditional indigenous terms, without reading western concepts and logical patterns into his system.
A local astronomer, Hilke Meine, guides up to six people in intimate stargazing sessions that describe how indigenous desert dwellers read the stars ($25).
The caption reads: Indigenous Brazilians continued their occupation of the former Indigenous Museum in Rio de Janeiro, which is schedule to be razed for parking for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament.
Their mission is to construct a written language from an ancient spoken tongue, teach the indigenous population to read, translate the entire New Testament (and portions of the Old) into the people's "mother tongue" and then give copies to one and all.
"If other countries and regions build up their indigenous S&E capabilities," reads the latest version of the National Science Board's Science and Technology Indicators, "they may diminish the relative attractiveness of the United States as a destination country".
Background Vocabulary: You may wish to locate New Delhi on a map and introduce students to the following words or concepts before reading: hereditary, musicologist, indigenous.
Here are 10 Indigenous writers you should be reading right now.
