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This photograph of an Australian Aboriginal camp was taken in 1895, before the policy of ‘assimilation’ was implemented. This policy, which was carried out between 1910 and 1970, involved Aboriginal children being removed from their homes in the Northern Territory and either put in orphanages or placed in white families.
Any indigenous inhabitant of a region or country. The word often refers to the original peoples of areas colonized by Europeans, and especially to Australian Aborigines.
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