1.+a)+Introduction

= Contact & Colonisation = Welcome to Year 8 History.Over Semester two you will be learning about Contact and Colonisation in Native America and Australia as well as Medieval Europe. This term you will be learning about Contact and Colonisation in North America and Australia. You will learn the following: Aboriginals
 * Why Europeans explored
 * The impacts of European exploration on native people
 * What is colonisation
 * Origins of the word Indian
 * Become familiar with maps of the world and North America
 * The life of the Eastern woodland Indians
 * The life of the Pueblo Indians
 * The life of the Plains Indians
 * The French in North America
 * The English in North America
 * Pocahontas
 * Thanksgiving
 * Westward expansion
 * Trail of Tears, Oregan Trail & California Trail
 * The native Indian response to colonisation: Battle of Little Big Horn, Battle of Wounded Knee
 * The difference in the relationships between the Indians and the French and the Indians and the English
 * The impacts of colonisation on the native American Indians
 * Aboriginal life before the Europeans arrived
 * Lake Mungo Investigations
 * Aboriginal Dreaming
 * Terra Nullis
 * Aboriginal peoples first contact with the British
 * Documentary: ‘The First Australians’
 * Bennelong
 * Pemulwuy
 * Impacts of colonisation on the Aboriginal people
 * Alinta the Flame – film
 * Aboriginal response to colonisation
 * Myall Creek Massacre & Risdon Massacre
 * Aboriginal ‘protection’ – Missions & reserves