🇦🇺 The Demouchets REACT "Living With the Oldest Culture on Earth (Indigenous Australians)" 

I can speak my indigenous language and English I am Arnhem man and proud of it

If you ever get the chance. Watch Rabbit Proof Fence

I’m mixed race.. but very proud Tjapukai, Yidinji and Erub Nation Indigenous Australian Kadaji jelbu.. My First Nations Australian grandparents were stolen from their families and put on a mission.. I speak all of my blood languages and English.. I have a degree 📜 in Education (Alumni Honoured) and I’m on my way to a PhD in Indigenous Education.. Kadaji in language means ‘healer’/ medicine.. Intergenerational trauma is real and in my ‘Dreaming’, I inherited gifts from Dreamtime of healing, prophecy, medicine and bush tucker.. My 👣 feel every vibration of my Country, Terra Australis.. All I want is a Treaty.. ✌🏽

I’m 56 years old and me and my brothers and sisters were taken and put in a mission in Western Australia

I am Aboriginal 'Bardi' tribe from Cape Leveque (where they travelled too 'Djarindjin' is about 1/2 hr drive) on my Mothers side and Maori (New Zealand) 'Tainui' tribe on my fathers side.. i love going home and visiting mums family up north on the reservation in Western Australia.. my favourite thing to do is fishing and listening to the old people tell stories and take me and show me ancient sacred places of my people.. in the early evening i go and stand on the rocks and watch the sea turtles swim by.. ❤

I was born in 1973, I knew 2 Aboriginal lads who were removed and put with a white family, I myself was always told we had Māori heritage, it was covered up that we had Aboriginal, because of the policy of taking kids, I am certain I was always meant to know culture, learning things both at school (which wasn't normal, very little was taught at other schools, if any) and through personal experiences, I am proud to know my heritage, but even prouder to be connected to the land and was shown culture when I was ready to receive, I always felt I had a dark skinned woman guiding me to the knowledge, if I was able to live as the ancestors, I know I'd be a medicine man, today I preach real history, importance of working with our environment, how to use native plants and using traditional techniques. with what happened to the people here and other places doesn't need to be compared, all the things being done to Nth American indigenous and African slaves, are the same things here, what is important is getting real history out there, many Australians don't know that Aboriginal people were forced off cliffs, because it is swept under the rug, it's time to clean the rug IMO

I recommend that you listen to the indigenous singer/ songwriter..Archie Roach.."took the children away".. all of his songs tell the stories

Thank you for sharing and learning about our history. 🖤💛❤️ Respect... White Australia has a black history

Australia there are more than 250 Indigenous languages including 800 dialects. Each language is specific to a particular place and people.

You both are so wholesome 😁 My Dad's side of the family is Aboriginal and it's really nice to know people over the world want to learn about our culture ❤❤ My Nanna had to hide my Dad and Uncle from being taken 😔 it was a really stressful time. She wrote about it and was an advocate for the Aboriginal people. She was such an incredible and strong woman and I miss her dearly. You guys are so kind and Thank you for this video 💖💖 it truly does mean a lot to us when people really do want to learn about the Aboriginal people because they are such a huge part of Australian history ❤❤ I'm proud to be part Aboriginal 😊

As an Australian, it's disgusting, embarrassing and just sad that this has actually happened. (And still is in some places in central regions) It's horrible to think that the world thinks we all condone this, we don't, for the most part. These types of videos are the ones that make me look at myself and wonder what the f*** I'm even doing here. I despise what has happened to the indigenous people here. Even still to this day. In the state I live in, it's so far seperated from the history of the country. You can see the influence of the Commonwealth everywhere as long as you're near the coast. On the other hand I'm so happy to see the different lifestyles and cultures coming to a common ground to make the story of Australia more clear to the world.

The church mission did the same in southern Nigeria too

This was also done in a lot of areas in the US to many first nations tribes.

The 'schools' for First Nations was all over North America, I think. Very recent. My Mother and Father-in-law were taken to these 'residential schools'. My husband's older brothers were all taken and my Father-in-law hid my husband from government reps who went to find and take children from their homes. My step-Mother's older brothers were taken and her parents moved into a city so she wouldn't have to go. If they moved to the city, she would be allowed to join children of other cultures in that school. My husband is a member of a First Nation Band and my step-Mother was Metis. I don't think First Nation families had the same choice as the Metis, they still had to have permission to leave the reserve so I don't think so. Thanks for this, I am learning more and more about Australia.

I am Aboriginal Woman my tribe is the Noongar People in Southwest of Western Australia. It was awesome to watch your guys reaction to our culture. My Dad was a part of the Stolen Generation also and was taken from his family in the 70's which like the guy said in the video it was not that long ago. Hope you guys continue to learn more about our culture and country :)

Black Americans are always welcome to my country and we have always stood in solidarity with yous fullaz from ever since we heard the “news”.

I am from a cultural group in New South Wales Australia called wiradjuri and I am from a town called orange and in my group we have totems and my totems are a kangaroo a goanna a magpie and a platypus which we call a platypus biladurang and a magpie garru unfortunately I don’t know the names for the others but I thought you might want to know these ones

From an Australian perspective, we get a LOT of American news….politics, shootings, natural disasters, trade info, USA-Middle East news….but pretty much never any indigenous news (oh, sans NITV, our 24/7 indigenous channel). Is it different IN the USA? Are there regular news updates re local indigenous issues?

The Stolen Children was disgrace and I don't want to see it happen Again.

I love that you are educating yourselves on the First Nation's people. Spread the word ❤

Stolen generations didn't only happen in Canada as well as Australia, it also happened to indigenous children in the USA. They were taken to live in mission schools, had their hair cut off, physically beaten if they spoke their native language, and dressed in white mans clothing. They were used as domestic servants or farm hands to white families when they 'graduated' from the missionary schools, which was basically slave labour. They rarely got paid, if at all. And...let's not even begin to explain the sexual abuse that happened to children in these mission schools, and/or in the private homes they were farmed out too....!! It's a shameful blight on these different countries histories....

Luv ur reaction to the story of my people the oldest living culture on Earth 70000yrs plus... I'm a Aboriginal woman from Perth Western Australia and my people are the Noongah people of the South West region of Western Australia.... my Grandfather Joseph RIP served in WW2 & he wasn't even classed as a citizen in his own country when he fought for this Country😢

Indigenous studies has been compulsory in the national schools curriculum from year 1 through to year 12 for all schools for over 15 yrs now As much as possible engagement of first nations people is sought to deliver this learning. The road to reconciliation is a long one and there is still a very long way to jog. But for the first time in over 200 years I do believe we are listening and heading in the right direction. It may take another couple of generations but we will get there. With love and deep respect for our first nations people retired teacher queensland. This push for education was instigated by a wonderful noonuccal woman called oodgeroo noonuccal from Stradbroke island. She knew the way to heal the past was to educate the future. She was right. 1:29

Native American children were also taken because of USA Government policy. As well as the slave trade where your ancestors were stolen from Africa. So much generational trauma. Thanks for sharing part of this sad story 💜

Thanks for sharing, ✨🖤💛❤️

I’m Gunditjmara, born and raised in Melbourne. I can’t speak language because of the racsist polices of the Australian government and church. My mother was one of the main group who had some of our lands returned to us Gunditjmara people, l have worked in the black resistance all my adult life by working in our Aboriginal health service and other orgs. Thanks for reacting to us.

Awesome you guys watching this as a proud Bardi/Jawi man and leader myself it's good to see other countries and ethnic backgrounds watching and reacting to Aboriginal people of Australia thanks guys 👊🏿👍🏿💯

I am a women of the Lunawannah Alonah of the Nyonne, the cold water people and my culture and language has sadly been officially declared extinct. Part of the white Australia policy very few mention is they actually were trying to breed the black out of us, one of the reasons race can be very tricky and never assumed here ( e.g. my daughter is white blonde with blue eyes ) and growing up in Queensland in the 80's we still lived in fear of the policy. I spent my childhood being told to never tell anybody about my ancestry because the government might steal me and I would never see them again 😢

Very much like the native americans

when the government said "sorry" i for one meant it, im so sorry for what happened in the past, we are slowly closing the gap between Caucasian australia and our beautiful indigenous people, the traditional owners of our land, its slow but we'll get there with this next generation of kids who are taught in school who are the rightful owners of this land

Thank you for this it means a lot xx

THIS ALSO HAPPENED IN THE USA: In 1872, the Board of Indian Commissioners, a body of religious men established by Congress to undertake the “Christianization” of Native Americans, allotted 73 Indian agencies to various Christian denominations. Among them were Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Catholic, Baptist, Unitarian, and Lutheran churches, and others. Each denomination was responsible for the supervision of Indian boarding schools within its given territory, and was complicit in carrying out policies of cultural genocide that played out in the classroom. Native schoolchildren were taught to be ashamed of their identity. Upon arrival to the school, students were systematically conditioned to reject their Indian-ness. Their hair was cut, and they were dressed in the dominant culture fashion, forced to abandon their native languages, forbidden to use their native names, and taught to repudiate their “pagan” traditions. “Let all that is Indian within you die,” was the commission from Rev. A. J. Lippincott during a Carlisle Indian School graduation. Physical, emotional, and sexual abuses were documented at Christian-run Indian boarding schools. Student punishments included beatings, physical restraints, and isolation in dark cellars. Many students chose to run away. Additionally, intentional over-enrollment led to unhealthy living conditions. Insufficient supplies and unsanitary conditions resulted in lack of food and high rates of illness. The death rate for children at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania was 3.5-4.5 times the national average at that time. Survivors report that the dead were buried anonymously in mass graves, sometimes on school grounds. Apparently, the “kill the Indian, save the man” mantra of Capt. Richard Pratt, Civil War volunteer and founder of Carlisle Indian Industrial School, proved ominously true. This tragic loss of culture has played itself out in a legacy of generational trauma in the Native American community. After returning to the reservation, many former students felt isolated and removed from their Indian culture. Reentry to their native homes left them with a sense of self-loathing. Loss of language and the knowledge of tribal history and traditions made it a struggle to re-assimilate. With these deficits, along with a history of abuse they suffered at school, many former students turned to alcohol, drugs, and suicide to relieve their pain. Others, enacting Paulo Freire’s idea of the oppressed becoming oppressors, internalized the abuse done to them, and became violent toward their own families. The devastation done to tribal communities as a result of boarding school policies cannot be overestimated. Why does the lingering social impact of Christian-run Indian boarding schools still matter more than 100 years later? Because the serial traumas are now realities enacted in Native communities. The abuse of those who had attended the schools, now community elders, filters down to their children and grandchildren. Repercussions are still being manifested throughout tribal societies.

3:48 I was just thinking that. I am somewhat aware of this happening in Canada but didn't hear too much about Australia's relationship with the aboriginal community. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this practiced in the United States as well?

Im indigenous but i am going to clear up some miss information as my mother was taken aswell for very good reason we fail to mention the neglect of our children also the rape and deaths of our young ones through neglect the reason as to why they was taken . tmany times the families gave there kids up

Actually the oldest living culture is the SAN people of southern Africa who have been around 100 to 140000 years ago

Great reaction my American fans👍👍👍 watching from the Kimberlys region (halls creek) which you showed In the second half of the video.... much love famz🇦🇺🇺🇸

You should always be weary of wildlife, especially crocs, but do remember these people been living out here with the crocs for 10s of thousands of years. Those crocs know they are on the menu and they won't attack a group of people, they will pick you off if they catch you alone but humans are top of the food chain.

im from western australia. when i was in year 6 at school we watched a movie called "the rabbit proof fence". i dont want to give any spoilers but if youre interested in this stuff i recommend you watch it

Much respect my brother and sister I hope to visit our American black brothers and sisters uncles and aunties ❤

What they don't tell you is that white babies were also being taken at a much greater rate. Australia in those days was very religious and any parents, white or black, that had children out of wedlock, or had children into families deemed unsafe, were taken, especially single mothers. Now I'm not saying this practice was a good thing. It was in most cases worst for the kids than staying with their families. But it was what happened in a lot of countries at that time in history. To just put it down to racism... it's just not the case.

🇦🇺The Australian Government was 😥coping what the American government 😢did with the American Indians!😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

I have Aboriginal heritage, but we could pass for white and we never mentioned it [mid 60's now], other families claimed they had Indian heritage so their children were not taken. Much better to be thought of as a "Curry Muncher" than have no rights at all. Sad.

I come from the land of the warrior Kurumul / Corrimal. Dharawal people.

G'day mateys! Im pleased to see that someone up here has finally included some of our first nations people. Ive many close Koori mates. I live in NSW, Northern Tablelands which is filled with their history & culture. Times have changed since total British rule. Anothrr cool part of our history was to get rid of British idealism altogether which helped heaps. Thamks guys!

7:30 💯 agree and salute to you both

Great video to react to about Australia.

I'm a 73 year old Australian Male. My Ancestors are from the English villiage of Farnham, England. I am Australian, as is ALL my Family!. Thing is this. From arrival, Everything the 'White Man' did was what all conquering invaders have done .

so beautiful people , robbed of their land but still so humble

I went to school with mission kids . Always thought it must have been hard not living with their parents . The mission was about 5kms from my house .

I voted yes.

This type of horror from the church is widespread. More secretively done to me and my Maori people.

When the English government transported slaves (convicts) to Australia/Tasmania, the exact same things happened - the Scottish and Irish lost their culture, their language, their spirituality, their families - and they had to assimilate into the English way of life, including language and law system, and into this hot, dry continent!. It wasn't about transporting convicts at all, it was getting as many slaves sent over as possible to populate the slave system that England setup over here, and Thomas Bigge, who setup the slave system in Trinidad, was also asked to set up the assignment system here in Australia. And now, here's me, born in Tasmania, and not feeling like this is home, and breathing the tainted air of what happened to the indigenous people, it's on our heads. How could all this happen? How could it be allowed to happen?

if you really want to dig deep into it, google Henry Reynolds and choose through the selection of books he has written, its a story that really needs to be kept alive and Australians to take ownership of it, all i mean by that is they should at least acknowledge it

I come from djarindjin/Lombadina thanks for learning of our culture and stolen generation. We are still not included in the Australian constitution we still concidered flora and fauna.

There are about six cultures in Africa who also claim to be the oldest. Given that humanity began in Africa they would be correct.

Lady's disputing the Australian Crawl.

The Church did this in Europe too, the crusades. Spreading religion by the Sword.

The Australian Government and the Churches have a lot to answer for. What they did to the first nations people was disgusting.

12:10 "Before doing anything else we first have to listen." This hit hard. We just had a referendum to change our constitution such that it would recognise our indigenous people and install a "voice" to parliament - a body of indigenous Australians to advise the government of the day on legislation directly affecting indigenous Australians. Unfortunately, misinformation and disinformation campaigns from prominent racists via right wing media successfully hoodwinked enough people to vote no and the referendum was unsuccessful further tarnishing my country's reputation but more importantly, further damaging my country's ability to make right, 230 years of wrongs. Oh, and I'm a 6th generation whitey.

My family has raised 4 Aboriginal kids of Aboriginal/ European descent. All were horribly neglected and abused by their families. All are now grown up and all have developed competencies and life skills that will carry them through life with pride. Going back to the turn of the last century missionaries picked up thousands of these neglected abandoned and abused children and over whelmingly the majority went on to live meaningful productive lives away from the brutal savagery of tribal life and it was brutal and savage. Today those missions are still running and aside from the European Aboriginal activism that paints an ugly narrow picture using government run communities as a backdrop of their white shaming the missions in stark contrast are well structured where the tribal elders are respected. The recent Voice referendum exposed the truth of these activists. First by due process they excluded the Tribesmen from their pathways to representative elections. Next for decades these academic activists have controlled the Aboriginal budget and it was they who have neglected the government run communities. To trot them out as show and tell for the purpose of white shaming was a disgrace. We have had our eyes opened as to what has been happening with this $6 billion annual budget. 70% spent on the east coast where other than far north Queensland there are no Tribesmen, they died out more than a hundred years ago. Yesterday these same activists on the east coast were out marching in their thousands against Australia day. In stark contrast the states where the Tribesmen still exist there were no protests that anyone noticed. The tribal Aboriginie's in Australia have native title of over 50% of the Australian mainland and that includes trillions of mineral wealth. Don't be fooled by these activists because their agenda has nothing to do with preserving, protecting nor respecting this ancient culture. Their agenda is political Marxism exploiting the Aboriginies where the vast majority of Tribesmen want nothing to do with them. If you want to understand the white black relationship from a period of assimilation I would strongly recommend the Michael Douglas video's on you tube, that's what it was like when I grew up.

Yous should watch rabbit proof fence

Thanks

yes, they did this to all us dark peoples around the world

Unfortunately most Aussies know very little about Indigenous Australian culture due to the history of colonialism which sought to stamp it out. This is a real shame because we all live in a land that belonged to the many nations that occupied it for thousands of years and each one of those nations has a fascinating culture that can be explored by anyone open minded enough to try. I used to live in Ganaikurnai country when I was young and enjoyed learning about that culture back then. Now I live in Noongar boodja and find the culture here equally interesting and rewarding to learn about.

Hey from Australia 🇦🇺 & hope you visit here & Go to Brisbane Adelaide Perth Darwin Cairns Townsville Mackay gold coast Sydney Melbourne

He forgot to mention the assimilation process that coincides with the stolen generation. the assimilation process was pretty much government sanctioned r*pe on indigenous woman to "breed out the black" This was done alot during the stolen generation is the main part often overlooled because of how disgusting it is. But imo we have to talk about these disgraceful things so that we can move on

we're trying

Respect my brother and sister from the US and thanks for learning about my culture..Next episode U need to watch is Mullumbimby Stonehenge of Australia...U will understand who we really are and what our purpose was since the Dreamtime 😊

Truth is we are one of the most privileged in Australia with billions spent per year

They did it everywhere including here in Africa... in Angola speaking your native language was seen as being uncultured and uncivilized, using your native language names, even your own people would laugh and see you as a bush person if you had an African name

My grand mother was stolen generation, I have no connection to land

We a the oldest living culture in the world

I'm Pitjitjanjara, kokatha tribe. My mum is stolen generation. Taken at 7 days old from Ooldea, sth Aust. Since the apology. Stolen gen has never stopped. More than 500% have continued to b stolen. Even babies stolen from hospitals in Sth Australia just days old. Without parents knowing 😪😪. Our culture now dates back to 120,000 years 🥰

Thw thing with a alot of aboriginals it wasn't a race thing if people look at alot of the cases during the later stages qhen they wrote down the records it showed abuse and alcoholism

Im Goomi

DOOMADGEE witchdoctor help his grandson, that left us 7/8 hr's reaction a.s.p

I notice that the missionaries were unable to Alter the Asian side of the world (China, Japan etc) hmm wonder why this is

Kobie dee aboriginal rapper check him out

clueless.

5m = 16.4 feet fyi

racism is still alive and well just shown recently with the denial of a voice for the indigenous people of australia - the referendum that passed a loud and pseudo-righteous "NO" towards the indigenous people from white australians

When you hear this story, I don't understand why the majority of Australians, as recently as last month, did not vote YES for the indigenous people's of Australia to simply "have a seat at the table". What are people here, still afraid of? Fairness, is that what they are afraid of? The church, misguidedly took the children from their parents, because they thought, arrogantly that they could do a better job! Also it was very convenient for them to use the "free labour" which they gathered up for their own use. Genocide is what it was and is! All people's whether, black, white, yellow or brown deserve respect and to live their lives within their own culture and for their culture to be valued. Sorry I don't get it and never have, fair is fair as far as I am concerned. ALL Australians should learn what Aborigines want to share with us, I would love to learn more and our children should have that chance also to be taught the honest and true history, no cover ups and I would like to see white Australians being able to learn any of those 700 languages. That would be great.

There are other perspectives. The aboriginal people of Australia initially was a stone-age culture when the English arrived in the late 1770s. They were the remnant people of a dying race of the first humans, the Lemurian race, who lived on Lemuria, a very ancient land, which included eastern Australia and parts of the mainly South Pacific Ocean area, now submerged. The western part of Australia was mainly submerged which is why it is now mainly desert. It was mainly the half-caste children of aboriginal women and white men who had abandoned their fathering responsibilities who were taken, or children not well-cared for by their families. Even today there are part aboriginal children in situations of neglect. Most aboriginal people in Australia are NOT full-blood aboriginals. Some aboriginals refuse to work for money, instead preferring government hand-outs known as 'sit-down' money and other benefits. They want the best of both worlds but are not prepared to do the work for it. There are government student scholarships and job-training, health-care, housing etc. of which some do not take advantage. In some aboriginal communities the parents do not insist that the children attend school and absents are high. Their historical culture is not one of formal learning so the children find such expectations difficult and do not value it. When they are paid millions of dollars by mining companies for access to their heritage land they squander the money and/or do not share it with the others. Even when wise elders in some of these wealthy communities use such money for their people's betterment, such as organizing tourist and other businesses, employment, trade courses etc. they don't show up for work. If someone in the 'mob' ( they don't call themselves 'tribes') has well-earned money, others will 'humbug' them ie. pester them for money. The aboriginal communities have criminal, drug, alcohol and domestic violence issues. I am not saying all aboriginals are like this. Some have gone on to self-sufficient work and careers aided by government services and funding. Aboriginals represent 3% of the Australian population. The numbers of people claiming to be aboriginal is increasing as their birth rate decreases !

What amazes me is that people from a place where humans had only been present for 10 thousand years, could actually believe that they had more cultural than a people who's cultural was 65 thousand years old.

I can't be bothered with pop history. This gives the impression they want. It's divisive, and byes 1/2 is true, but all biased by actuall perpetrators. Those teaching you this stuff, never want aboriginals to have their true rights or respect and they play a blame game. Everhytime you say, this is sick, knoiw that it never happened as stated. The cruelty wasn't apparent and hard men, alwys had a job to do, and it doen't look like that.

They were in the stone age -- they now have running water and toilets, cash in their pockets...and a life! Better than sleeping in a hole with a dingo to keep you warm --

Nice story..not facing the truths of the "culture".

Another British colony

The Australian, RH Null bloodlines, Where the Rh Bloodlines came from. Facts.

Currently there are over 600000 Aboriginal people in Australia, so their cull and segregation tactics didn't work.