Just a little note
>Whoah. This would be a whole 'nother ball of wax.
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>The Australians (who, BTW are viciously persecuted at this time, and the Tasmanians haven't been completely exterminated by white hunting parties yet) have a very different approach to magic/medicine than the Native Americans.
Actually, the Tasmanian aborigines have not been exterminated. It's true, there aren't any "pure-blood" aborigines in Tasmania anymore, but as that's a European concept, it means little to them. Also, the perception that they have been exterminated works against them. In land claims in Tasmania, the government says: "There aren't any Tasmanian aborigines" and that's the end of that.
As another matter of interest there was Australian Aborigines in the Old West. They were actually taken there as part of a circus act. It was only a few years ago that the bones of those individuals were returned to their native land.
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Reuben McCallum