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· In 1770 the Australian continent was claimed as British territory by captain James Cook. · Cooks encounter with the Aboriginal peoples can be seen as violent, but the European colonisation of the continent which then followed, can only be described as invasion. · White settlement brought with it the destruction of whole Aboriginal communities and the decimation of the fabric of Aboriginal society. · The loss of lives had devastating effects on the Aboriginal people with whole groups disappearing and others suffering complete disruption of kinship groups, transference of sacred knowledge and social order. · As white settlers moved inland to establish a farming regime, Aboriginal groups were dispossessed of the land for which they had an affinity and had been responsible since charged with that by the spirit of the ancestors. · White community did not recognise sacred sites nor did they share the reverence or the communal oneness with the land that was and is felt by the Aboriginal groups.
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