Do you feel apologise for aboriginal Were the aboriginal people treated harshly
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Do you feel apologise for aboriginal? Were the aboriginal people treated harshly?
Many Australian are unable to empathy with aborigines as an oppressed, displaced people because even today the native is still understood as sub-human.
The novel, My Place and the film, Rabbit proof fence are represented the aboriginal history based on the true story that has been dominated and formulated by a network of white discourses. Those texts also value the aboriginal as a dying race.
My Place by Sally Morgan is a story of the author's search for her aboriginal identity. The identity that has been hidden from her grandmother, Daisy Corunna and her mother, Gladys Milroy, who spent the larger part of their life feeling ashamed of their heritage.
The powerful dynamic of Morgan's book is the interface between these generations and the painful awareness it brings of the problematic nature of aboriginal identity for Morgan's female relatives.
The first section of My Place reconstructs Sally's childhood with her mother and grandmother as adversarial figures intent on frustrating her attempts to find out about the past. The context of this tension in maintaining the secret of identity for Morgan's mother and grandmother is born of a life of experiences of powerlessness or rejection, which Sally Morgan has escaped through the creation of a 'fugitive identity', that of 'Indian'...