Learning about the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Here are some interesting Internet sites about the Aboriginal Tent Embassy for you to explore.

• Indigenous Australia Aboriginal Tent Embassy

• Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Icon or Eyesore?

http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/chron/1999-2000/2000chr03.htm

• Aboriginal Tent Embassy

http://www.australianexplorer.com/canberra_aboriginal_tent_embassy.htm

• Aboriginal tent embassy future to be decided after fire

http://www.abc.net.au/message/news/stories/ms_news_879902.htm

• Aboriginal Tent Embassy 214 Years Sovereignty Never Ceded 27.11.02

http://www.ohmsnotbombs.org/sporadicalnews.php?articleID=8

• Aboriginal Tent Embassy The Hague Consulate Declaration 2001

http://www.eniar.org/news/ate.html

• Tent embassy burns down

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/14/1055220810618.html

Outcomes

By doing this lesson, a student:

H1.2 analyses and discusses the social justice and human rights issues that are contemporary consequences of the colonisation of Aboriginal Peoples

H2.3 H2.3 discusses and analyses consequences of colonisation on contemporary Aboriginal cultural, political, social and economic life

H4.1 H4.1 investigates, analyses and synthesises information from Aboriginal and other perspectives

By doing this lesson, a student learns about:

• National and international Indigenous human Rights issues from a global perspective including
  • sovereignty

Questions

1. What is the history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy?
2. Who was associated with the creation of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy?
3. What was the purpose of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy?
4. Why does the Aboriginal Tent Embassy exist today?
5. Does the Aboriginal Tent Embassy have anything to do with human rights and social justice issues?
6. Identify differing Indigenous and non-Indigenous views on the subject of the Aboriginal tent embassy.
7. Analyse the impact of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.