Read this excerpt from “we shall overcome.” many aborigines, native inhabitants of the australian countryside, were forced to leave their traditional lands when europeans began settling the country in the 1700s. while some later returned to their homeland and re-established communities, many lost their way of life forever. a reader might infer that the traditional lands were forcibly taken from the aborigines australians are mostly aborigines australians have paid aboriginal groups for their losses aborigines have moved to other areas to claim new land