
Aboriginal Australians: a modern history
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The Relationship Between Aborigines and Europeans
First encounters between aboriginal australians and white settlers in late eighteenth century. How did they view the new arrivals? At first with astonishment and puzzlement, i think because a they had no knowledge of the outside world. But after not too long, they they realized that people were here to stay. They weren't going away. And so hostility grew within a short period of time. Then in they wished to avoid them if they could. If tthere was an account, often it became hostile, was violence.
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