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**[Corroboree on the Murray River]**, 1858, by Gerard Krefft Watercolour drawing
Welcome to my Wiki page where you will find my investigation of various representations of the indigenous people of Australia. Every text type that i have selected will represent an aspect of the indigenous perspective. The 3 texts that i have selected advertisement, poem and song lyrics. This image is appropriate to the indigenous Australia as it symbolizes the tribal culture that is represented by the way the painting is laid out and the way the different colours are used and blended together. This painting shows what the indigenous culture was like a long time ago, by the way of life and tribal rituals.

I'll jump up and say 'that's me mate,' I'm proud to be a Murri.
“Proud Murri” is poem written by Dan Davis in Queensland Australia. In this poem it develops the idea that you should have pride in your own culture and have no fears and regrets of being who you really are. The poem highlights and creates an image of an Australia man that loves his culture and country through the stereotypically outcome of many white Australian people. “Proud Murri” clearly shows the nationalism of an Australian man. The way that Dan Davis uses the writing techniques of strong description, repetition and imagery to display the pride that one has for their country.

Dan Davis creates the image of a patriotic aboriginal man “I'm proud to be a Murri, proud to be a true Australian. I'm proud of my culture, my heritage, that's what makes me who I am. My father, he Kukuyalanji, my mother Baradah woman”. Using the repetition of being proud of who you are shows that he is true Australian and doesn’t care about what other people may think or what they might say about his culture. Dan Davis used many techniques in the poem. He used the writing technique of first person to display himself in the poem, this shows the audience a better understanding of what indigenous people go through and think of them self. Dan Davis uses quotes in the poem that symbolizes a typically Australian man such as “that's me mate” and “I’m proud to be Murri”.

The was created to show what an average indigenous Australian man feels towards his country. This also gives the reader and insight into the way of Indigenous Australia and give the message a an average white Australian what their life really is. This gives the poem a very strong emotion as he is talking about something he loves, not every person could feel the same as this man does. He is proud to be Murri.

Took The Children Away by Archie Roach

This story's right, this story's true I would not tell lies to you Like the promises they did not keep And how they fenced us in like sheep. Said to us come take our hand Sent us off to mission land. Taught us to read, to write and pray Then they took the children away, Took the children away, The children away. Snatched from their mother's breast Said this is for the best Took them away.

The welfare and the policeman Said you've got to understand We'll give them what you can't give Teach them how to really live. Teach them how to live they said Humiliated them instead Taught them that and taught them this And others taught them prejudice. You took the children away The children away Breaking their mothers heart Tearing us all apart Took them away

One dark day on Framingham Come and didn't give a damn My mother cried go get their dad He came running, fighting mad Mother's tears were falling down Dad shaped up and stood his ground. He said 'You touch my kids and you fight me' And they took us from our family. Took us away They took us away Snatched from our mother's breast Said this was for the best Took us away.

Told us what to do and say Told us all the white man's ways Then they split us up again And gave us gifts to ease the pain Sent us off to foster homes As we grew up we felt alone Cause we were acting white Yet feeling black

One sweet day all the children came back The children come back The children come back Back where their hearts grow strong Back where they all belong The children came back Said the children come back The children come back Back where they understand Back to their mother's land The children come back

Back to their mother Back to their father Back to their sister Back to their brother Back to their people Back to their land All the children come back The children come back The children come back Yes I came back.

==== This Australian advertisement is designed to show how ordinary people can stereotype people of other cultures/ethnicities by the way they look and what their culture and beliefs are. The image itself displays two men standing next to each other, and with very simple words “Which one of these men is in a gang?” After reading the statement most people would point fingers at the indigenous Australian straight away even though they actually don’t know the truth of what either of these men do for a living. People tend to stereotype indigenous Australians because they either they don’t know one for them self or they assume and listen to people that might have had a bad conflict with them. This advertisement has a very strong and important message to it, they are trying to display what most of Australia think of the indigenous people. The question that is asked in the advertisement draws the white readers straight to the indigenous person as they have their mind set on what they think of all indigenous people. The stereotypes of the indigenous Australians are thought to be dirty, homeless and drunk. These stereotypes are brought up the few Indigenous Australians that are like this but as we all know not everyone is the same and there are going to be good people in every culture across the world no matter where your going to look. The key technique that they used in this advertisement was the question, the question is so brief that you straight away stereotype that image and assume the indigenous person even though you don’t know what the white male might be like. The facial expression of the men are quite different, the white man has a smirk giving the impression that he’s a happy man whereas the indigenous male has his head tilted and has a thug pose. The reason why they do this is so that you have to think before you choose they lead you into thinking one way but they really “We are hoping you can’t answer this”. All these techniques lead you into the thinking of most people and why they stereotype people. They did a good job with the question and the statement “We are hoping you can’t answer this” This leaves the reader wondering why they think the way they do and leaves them wondering how they were fooled into answering. ====