terra nullius - legal term for land that is unoccupied or uninhabited. Australia’s early European arrivals were not able to create a treaty with the local Aboriginal people in order to acquire land, so the idea that it belonged to no one became a tool, rather than a law, that was used by British settlers to push First Nations peoples off their ancestral Country, Colonialism - the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically., Imperialism - a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means., Frontier Wars - violent conflict between European settlers and Indigenous peoples after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788., Pastoralist - a sheep or cattle farmer, Squatter - a person who had occupied pastoral land not granted to them by colonial authorities. Often the first white settlers in an area., Smallpox - contagious, life threatening viral disease with symptoms that include fever and pustules that usually leave permanent scars., QLD Native Mounted Police (QNMP) - (1849 until 1904). Detachments of Aboriginal troopers led by white officers. Operated across the whole of Queensland and was explicitly constituted to protect the lives, livelihoods and property of settlers and to prevent (and punish) any Aboriginal aggression or resistance., Dispossession - Includes the violence of removing people from a place; formulation of legislation and policies to forcibly remove people to another location; and the legal and social practices designed to sever connections between people and place., Hegemonic beliefs - ideas and values that are dominant in a society and shape people's perceptions and behaviours., The Great Chain of Being - a concept of ranking all organised matter in hierarchical order, from the lowest to the highest. When it came to mankind, Europeans were ranked pre-eminent., Polygenism - a theory of human origins - the view that humans are of different origins (polygenesis). This view is opposite to the idea of monogenism - theory of a single origin of humanity., Phrenology - the theory that one’s mental powers are indicated by the shape of the skull. Played a prominent role ‘in fostering the notions that Aboriginal mental powers were limited and their prospects for improvement were slight'., Social Darwinism - belief in survival of the fittest - the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better., The History Wars - a term used in Australia to describe the public debate about the interpretation of the history of the European colonisation of Australia and the development of contemporary Australian society, particularly with regard to their impact on Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples., Dundalli - a Turrwan (Yuggara word for great man/leader) who was educated in Aboriginal law. Chosen as a Turrwan to conduct restorative justice for the shooting and poisoning of Aboriginal people by settlers in colonial Brisbane. For over 10 years starting from 1843, Dundalli attacked settlers, conducted robbery causing serious bodily harm and killed livestock. Aboriginal people saw him as a resistance leader, but the new European settlers saw him as a criminal and murderer.,

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