Aboriginals lived in Australia for about 40,000 years before European settlement began in 1788. During that time they developed an amazing culture all based on survival. They found all of their food from the land. They developed an amazing religion that is based on the fact that everything was created in the Dreamtime, the time before time began. The Aboriginals connect their origins with the Dreamtime. There were hundreds of different tribes around Australia, all with unique languages. Artwork was traded between tribes and people had to learn many languages to be able to communicate with important tribes.…
New South Wales West locates one of the greatest archaeological sites in Australia’s history, that is, Lake Mungo.…
“Tribes of the Sydney” is a feature article from the newspaper Sydney Morning Herald and is written by Sacha Molitorisz. This text was written in January 2010 and speaks about the changes in Sydney’s youth culture and emphasises on the different type of teenage groups that are around Sydney and reasons why youths do have groups. This text’s main theme is about belonging and how youths in Sydney feel the need to belong in a group. Molitorisz cleverly writes this article in a way that can relate to the readers as well as get her point across successfully through the use of many techniques.…
Ngarrindjeri is the name an aboriginal nation/language group consisting of 18 tribes and 77 family groups. The name ngarrindjeri literally translates to “ the people who belong to this land” they are the natives of areas extending from Mannum, South Australia downstream through Murray Bridge and Victor Harbor and along the coast through Goolwa to Cape Jervis, including Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert.…
The Murrumbidgee river is second longest river in Australia, it is a major tributary to the Murry river within the Murry-Darling basin. It flows through New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. The word Murrumbidgee comes from the Wiradjuri language and it means “big water”. Despite what language the name is the river flows through various Aboriginal lands and…
Summary Everything in Its Path, I read that the people that was a part of the Buffalo Creek flood. The people were wounded in spirit, children did not act like children because of what the flood had done to their home. The people that lived in Buffalo, Creek loved the place they called home. Buffalo, Creek is mainly a place where coal mining go on. On February 26th, 1972 the place that was a nice honest place as the people from Buffalo, Creek would say that statement came to an end on that day.…
Moore River Native Settlement, Australia Day, 1934, a very hot afternoon. MR NEVILLE, MR NEAL and MATRON are seated on a dais.…
Discuss how Australian government improves the lives of Aboriginal nowadays and how this promotes Australian cultural diversity.…
1920: Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria is named an Aboriginal reserve. A number of missions have been established there. First aboriginal protest movement was organised in Sydney.…
The aboriginals of the Bering Coast were mainly sea mammal hunters and fishermen. They hunted primarily during the winter when the mammals were out of the water, but the whales were a commodity and were hunted year-round in open water. The occasional land mammal was hunted as well. The western region of Alaska is home to caribou, brown bears, deer, moose, and more.…
From the time that Europeans landed in Australia ‘Pastoralists were pushing into Indigenous territory, robbing Aboriginal people of the land they had lived on and nurtured for thousands of years. ‘But Aboriginal communities did not just stand by as the land which they had formed rich bonds with, both spiritually and physically, was taken from their hands. Through a mixture of fear and hatred of the Aboriginals, European settlers engaged in many brutal clashes with them to attempt to seize their land. The Myall Creek massacre and the genocide that occurred in Van Diemens land are two prominent examples of the vicious and inhumane treatment of Aboriginals and the story of Pemulwuy is a reminder of the courage shown that was shown in adversity by many Aboriginal people.…
There are many Indigenous Australians that have made a significant impact on Australian society. These people stood up for their rights and made their voices heard. Every action they made was because of the strong belief they had for their rights, culture and people.…
The Aboriginal Resource Centre, in the Office of Intercultural Affairs, recognizes the fluidity of language and that, in the context of this land and community, certain terms are preferred or contested by different Indigenous people and communities.…
The Indigenous Australians lived ‘nomadic’ lifestyles. They lived in tribes that moved around, using only what they needed, recycling what they could, and moved on when they felt that the resources at the site had been exhausted. This gave the site time to recover and recuperate, and so, their resources never ran out.…
The statement, ‘Aboriginal spirituality is as diverse and complex as the people themselves’, relates Aboriginal people to their culture and beliefs.…