Friday, January 15, 2010

Most of these country's natives are in the position where there land is being taken over, or they are having their culture being taken away from them.

In America, the Indians are having there land being taken over by the colonists, and in later years they are moved all the way to California, and eventually overwhelmed by Americans. Some of the Indians in the early times of the British colonizing America the Indians helped them plant crops, and helped them hunt, resulting in the first Thanksgiving. Today the Indian culture still is going, but is not as good as how it used to be back then.

In Australia the Aborigines were having there land taken away from them along with having their culture being forcefully taken away from them. In the movie Rabbit Proof Fence, you see how young Aborigines are taken away to white settlements where they are forced to forget their culture and change into another one.

The natives in South Africa were being forced to go farther from where they originally were, so the Boers could take there land. The natives made a resistance, but were overcome by the Boer's better weapons. The South Africans now are a free country and have their own government, but are not doing so well economy wise.

Rwanda was never really colonized, but they were run by different countries. When Germany was in power they put the Tutsis in power and the Hutus were treated as "garbage". When Belgium took control they put the Hutus in power, and the Tutsis were not treated well. This power change resulted in the Rwandan genocide. Now Rwanda is a free country and is run by Paul Kagame, they are not doing very well, and Hutu extremists are being hunted down by Paul and his army.

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