Ch 32 Vocab - Today's Issues

Question 1

Assimilation -

Answer 1

when a minority group gives up its culture and adapts the majority group’s culture

Question 2

Stolen Generation -

Answer 2

the generation that gave up their culture

Question 3

Land Rights Act of 1976 -

Answer 3

gave aboriginal people the right to claim land in the Northern Territory

Question 4

Mabo Case -

Answer 4

a legal case that made the court recognize that oboriginal people had owned land before the british came

Question 5

Pastoral leases -

Answer 5

ranchers renting land from the government

Question 6

wik case -

Answer 6

case where court ruled that aboriginal people could claim land held under a pastoral lease