The attached article relates to fundamental questions that go to the nature of property, the significance of possession, pluralistic understandings of ‘ownership’ and relationships to land, and the...

Running Head: ABORIGINAL’S LAW AND COLONIAL FOUNDATION    1
ABORIGINAL’S LAW AND COLONIAL FOUNDATION    2
ABORIGINAL’S LAW AND COLONIAL FOUNDATION
Table of Contents
The Chosen Article    3
Analysis of the Article    4
Critiquing the Article    6
References    9
The Chosen Article
The author Irene Watson illustrates the extent the First Nations People who had been the origins of Australia bore the violence during the colonialism. Even though it was claimed that a peaceful settlement had been achieved, however according to the author it was just a façade as the very settlement lead to frontier wars. In the historical underpinnings in the midst of the cultural nuances, Professor Watson explains the story of the Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander population (Watson, 2017).
The colonisation had affected the most was the indigenous people. The civilisation as stated by Professor Watson demanded the absorption of the First Nations People. The study has been supported by the international law, which has suggested the Australian legal system were incapable of acknowledging the culture and diversity amongst the Aboriginal population adequately in the current available form.
Further, in the Kaldowinyeri section, Watson articulates about the concept of time that helps in differentiating itself from the modern science in terms of singular, immutable and constant factor. As mentioned by the author, the First Nation People arrived from a generation where time was not measured rather time was considered to be a philosophy of a continuous cycle (Watson, 2016).
The Raw law ceremony mentioned by Watson that reveals the story of ‘Waargle’ that highlights the struggle of the First Nation People during the flood where the number of survivors was less. Many of the survivors clung to a giant serpent’s head so that they can survivor from the floodwater. In other words, the author emphasises how the Aboriginals had to struggles to remain afloat in the midst of colonialism during the invasion of the legal system in Australia.
This was highlighted by the increased number of regulations and rules including positivist laws that justified the concept of dispossession and genocide of the Aboriginals population (Watson, 2017). The history of the Indigenous Australia is also a symbolic representation in terms of customs and law. The author has also taken extracts from the perspective so the other historians where in many cases it is observed that the historians have belittled the First Nation population stating that these population are unable to survive within a civilised community.
As mentioned by Professor Watson, the Australian court is unable to recognise the dual sovereignty that is maintained within the territorial bounds of Australia against the Indigenous people. Rather, Watson has identified that through the engagement of international stage and international law; the Indigenous people could gain a voice and provide a legitimate legal right that had been missing for several decades (Watson, 2017).
Moreover, Watson had also emphasised on the various hard-hitting...