Aboriginal Elvis: Australian Protest Music - Roger Knox

Mistreatment of indigenous peoples were a hallmark of the European colonial populations around the world. Like in the United States, European Australians forced the Aboriginal populations into schools designed to strip them of their cultural heritage, language and traditions and assimilate into the greater Australian population. Country singer Roger Knox, a native Australian whose mother was taken from her home as an eight month old, has become a well-known voice of the disenfranchised Aboriginals. His newest album, "Stranger in My Land," is a classic protest album that laments the loss of a culture and identity for an entire population. (And the music is catchy.)