First Nations?

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This is our first animation, and we are proud to find this new way of communicating complex ideas.
 
Please send a link to your friends so they can better understand that the language of First Nations needs to be more accurate and undersells the importance of the nation.
It also misleads Aboriginal people into thinking that somehow they lost nationhood rather than gained Australia.

[drez]

There’s no way we can move forward as long as lies continue. Cowtowing and inappropriate platitudes especially have to stop.

[Kenst]

And this is why 'Welcome to Country' makes no sense. There was no unified Australia with shared traditions then.

[jonesyok]

Thank you. "First nations is a Canadian term recently used in Australia." Spot on.

[biggibber]

How can they claim first nations, they were not a nation, they were a few tribes scattered around the place.

[Antechynus]

If one tribe lived in a valley, men and a few women overcrowded, with no grass, little water, no roos to hunt etc.
But the next valley over had a tribe with lovely water, plenty of game, etc but the men of that tribe had the fighting ability of children... did the first tribe "respect their culture and boundaries... or did they simply trit over and take the valley from them?...

Of course they did.
And thats what happened throughout human history. Europeans did the same when we got here. Our culture gave us the tools to make the whole world the "next valley over".
No right or wrong.

[nicholasmudrinic]

The Australian people see through the First nations propaganda. Very little of the actual history of Aboriginal people is taught. The education is skewed towards political machinations, as opposed to an objective telling of the history we know.

[NathanNostaw]

I think the chinese example was a bit too in depth and kind of derailed the point of the video a bit.

[jonnies]

2:25 - it’s not merely the harsh climate that limited their population to hundreds of thousands. It’s because they were constantly killing each other in tribal conquest.

[RoverCaptain]

You will never see this played by a school teacher in a classroom.

You will instead see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags in classrooms, indigenous artworks, posters celebrating indigenous people and their achievements, and even “sports” invented and played by indigenous people.

[daniellebcooper]

About time someone produced a truthful telling of this subject, it should be mandatory in schools.

[InfinitePlain]

Australia as a nation was founded by the AngloCeltic people in 1901.

[krispykremes]

Thank you for clearing up the misinformation about the so-called Australian "first Nations".

[AndroSpud]

Oldest living people group but they are the most unadvanced society in the history of mankind.

Then you go to Alice Springs and it all makes sense

[MichaelRobinson-hyms]

Beautifully articulating the bleeding obvious. And yet our politicians cannot see the forest for the trees. How is this possible?

[jonathananthony]

I've been saying this for years. Australia was full of 300 waring tribes. Someone needs to show this to that divisive, ignorant racist Lidia Thorpe.

[tristanbackup]

Thank you. Hate arguing with wokes about this. We didn't even had concepts of land ownership. Our lives were brutal yet simple back then, we just hunt & did ooga booga around the campfire.

[tonyfield]

Challenge for the Intrepid: get a wokie (or Lidia Thorpe) to sit in silence while watching this whole video.

[mrmoneyhacks]

"I'd like to pay tribute to the Bunyippie people, who conquered the previous inhabitants in a brutal genocide a few years before white people showed up, then wandered around to various other places looking for food before realizing it's much easier living next to white people full time."

[mark_blackMETALmatters]

less than 4% of the population influences most of the legislation in this country. There are similar numbers of Indians to Aboriginals currently, should we make legislation specifically for them too? There is institutionalised racism in this country, time we ended it and treated everyone equally.

[joelreidy]

I remember hearing that Aboriginals didn’t own the land, the land owned them…what happened to that?