Rabbit-Proof Fence

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The Aborigines people were severely mistreated once the European settlers came into contact with them. From the moment that they came into the country of Australia "White people would take his land from him and there would be no recourse for any injustices committed against his people." The white people would fence off land for themselves and build farms where previously the Aborigines people would hunt for their food. Also, the Aborigines were unfairly "bought in to be sentenced under the English law." They were treated unfairly and discriminated by the white men. The laws for the white people and Aborigines were different and greatly favored the white people. When they did a wrong doing, they only had to give food or compensate the Aborigines in some way. On the other hand, the native people had to serve long times of imprisonment for " carrying out their own traditional laws, handed down to them by the Dreamtime spirit beings." This seemed unfair and wrong to the native people who were just doing what they had always been taught to do. The white men the second they stepped foot on the Australian land not only used the native people bought also treated them poorly and with no respect.

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Australia and the United States are very similar in the ways that they attempted to civilize the native people. In the United States, European settlers from day one were forcing the natives to do differently than their norm. The settlers drove the Native Americans from their land where the soil was rich and fertile to infertile and deserted locations. Also, like the Australian story, the natives food in America was taken away. Americans over hunted and underused the bison and buffalo that they killed for food. This made it very challenging for the natives to hunt for their whole families and find enough food to survive. Also, Native Americans were treated poorly just like the natives in Australia were. If you did not follow the rules of the American people, they would usually either kill you or take you to prison. This proves that in both cases of Australians and Americans, both the natives were treated poorly and unfairly.

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In my opinion, no it was not fair at all for the children to be taken away from their homes and relocated to be civilized. If the same actions were taken upon white people in Australia, it would be severely frowned upon and illegal. So, just because the natives are not white, why should they be treated differently? The natives were not causing any harm or intruding the white peoples' space when they were left alone. Before the settlers came into Australia and disrupted the native land, everything was peaceful. But, once the white people came and thought themselves as the king and the natives as peasants, that is when everything went downhill. Taking children away from their families to make them more "western" does not seem fair in any way. Leaving the Native people alone and letting them live their lives separately from the settlers would have been just fine. Both would have been able to live in cohesion with no problem. But, the white people thought themselves as bigger and more important thus they attempted to control the Native people. All in all, i do not believe in any way that the Native people were treated fairly and respectfully in taking their children away from them to further "civilize" them in European ways.