KarakterløftetIndigenous Peoples in the English-Speaking World
Learn to explore the history and present of Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians and the Māori – colonisation, forced assimilation and today's fight for rights and recognition.
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Across the English-speaking world, the same pattern repeated: colonisation took land from peoples who had lived there for thousands of years, and assimilation policies then tried to erase their cultures – most brutally through boarding and residential schools and Australia's Stolen Generations. The pattern's afterlife is measurable today in health, income and imprisonment gaps. But the story is not only loss: oral traditions survived, treaties like Waitangi became legal weapons, and movements for reconciliation and self-determination are reshaping all three countries. The curriculum asks you to explore this from historical contexts – and to avoid what Chimamanda Adichie calls the single story: reducing living peoples to one image.
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