It is quite literally the best thing that ever happened to them. Colonisation was the difference between them being prehistoric hunter-gatherers and being a privileged caste sustained by a first world country.
No government, no ability to negotiate or make treaties.
Their cultural practices included infanticide for unwanted or sickly babies; Practiced regularly until the 1970s, and still ongoing in some communities.
If the average lifespan was 30 years I'd be really, really surprised. They had a huge infant and child mortality rate.
"Child Betrothal" of girls as young as twelve.
Brutal population control enforced by the tribes to ensure that their population never got bigger than the food supply, limited by the seasons.
Oh, and aboriginal tribes periodically wiped each other out entirely competing for resources.
'These people have stared for millenia at the ocean, yet never had the curiosity or wisdom to attempt the building of a ship. Their only concern is what they will eat and drink this day, and where they will sleep this night. They have no apparent concept of future, of aspirations beyond meeting their own physical needs, of art beyond rudimentary scratchings. They in fact seem to have no understanding of the conceptual at all, comprehending only the immediate, the physical and the visible and regarding all else with a childish disinterest or suspicion.'
It is quite literally the best thing that ever happened to them. Colonisation was the difference between them being prehistoric hunter-gatherers and being a privileged caste sustained by a first world country.
An actual, practicing stone age nomadic hunter gatherer people.
No medicine, no food preservation techniques, no buildings, no textiles. Literal caves and "humpies" made out of bark and sticks.
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No government, no ability to negotiate or make treaties.
Their cultural practices included infanticide for unwanted or sickly babies; Practiced regularly until the 1970s, and still ongoing in some communities.
If the average lifespan was 30 years I'd be really, really surprised. They had a huge infant and child mortality rate.
"Child Betrothal" of girls as young as twelve.
Brutal population control enforced by the tribes to ensure that their population never got bigger than the food supply, limited by the seasons.
Oh, and aboriginal tribes periodically wiped each other out entirely competing for resources.
'These people have stared for millenia at the ocean, yet never had the curiosity or wisdom to attempt the building of a ship. Their only concern is what they will eat and drink this day, and where they will sleep this night. They have no apparent concept of future, of aspirations beyond meeting their own physical needs, of art beyond rudimentary scratchings. They in fact seem to have no understanding of the conceptual at all, comprehending only the immediate, the physical and the visible and regarding all else with a childish disinterest or suspicion.'