Medicine is used in many different forms all around the world. Aboriginal traditional medicine and healing focuses on the balance between spiritual, mental, emotional and physical well-being (Lilley, Harrington, & Snyder, 2011; Robbins & Dewar, 2011). It is considered a holistic approach as it intertwines many different aspects of health (Robbins & Dewar, 2011). The community plays a vital role in the healing process and is highly valued (Shaw, 2014). Western medicine is based on dividing body and
faced by the modern health professional in understanding the complexities of providing culturally competent Aboriginal health and rehabilitation care within the Australian primary health care system. Understanding the true complexity of the past impacts of colonialism, the political process and community prejudice effects on the Indigenous health status cannot truly be understood by the western world and health care professionals. This report however, intends to inspire health care professionals to
as the refusal of the adoption of the European principles of religion and culture began the early stages of the resistance. Many aboriginal groups took livestock from the Europeans. Retaliations followed escalating to full on war over land because Europeans saw this as the aboriginals stealing. Aborigines fought with guerrilla tactics, destroying livestock,
year, Ontario and British Columbia also granted suffrage to women. By the end of the war, all women over the age of 21 (except Aboriginals, Asians, and women of other racial minorities) were permitted to vote. Dominion Elections Act of 1920, allowed women to also run parliament. Although women were still considered inferior to men in some respects, Canadian suffragists during World War I helped Canada take the first steps towards the victory of gender equality that exists today. Agnes Macphail
flat desert land where the average rainfall yearly is less than 300 millimetres, the most common group of trees are the acacias. There are over 400 different plants at Uluru and many have a significant cultural meaning as there were used as food, medicine, tools and weapons There is a plant called spinifex or Tjanpi it's grass that grows to two metres high and spreads out about three metres. It provides a home for the native animals and can be used to make glue. The soil in the surrounding landscape
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Australia - a continent that covers more than 7.5 million km² of the Earth's surface. The state of Western Australia itself is large enough to cover half of Europe, making it safe to say that there are no "islands" alike. Approximately 70% of Australia is considered "outback". The Outback is the enormous, isolated and dry area of Australia. The phrase "the outback" is commonly used to describe locations that are relatively more secluded than the main urban areas. Therefore making the outback one