Indigenous Australians Colonisation and Contact

Indigenous Australians Create a mind map like this in your book. Write about anything you know about Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians

Torres Strait Northern Territory Cape York East coast Lake Mungo Luis Vaez De Torres sailed here Northern Territory Chinese sailors reach here. Cape York Willem Jansz explored East coast Claimed by the British Crown. Lake Mungo Earliest remains. Sydney Cove First penal colony. Penrith Lakes Occupation by Aboriginals. South Australia Earliest rock engraving. Tasmania Occupied by Europeans

LAND, DREAMING AND LAW Indigenous Australians have a close relationship to land: Life depended on understanding seasons and foods. It connected them with their ancestral beings. It provided everything and they had to protect it. The local environment provided everything the people needed for life: animal skins were used for clothing and sinew for thread; stones made tools, and ochre was used in painting; bark fibre was used for nets and carry bags.

The Dreaming Knowledge of the land, food and seasons was passed on through stories, song cycles, ceremonies, dances and art. This is known as the Dreaming

Before British colonisation there were about 260 major Aboriginal language groups across Australia. Each language group had its own customs, laws and sacred sites that formed its own Dreaming explaining: how they came to be significance of sacred sites the laws and the rules governing people kinship relationships determining the obligations people had to each other the rituals and ceremonies.

Indigenous people believe that they have a duty to care for the sacred places on the land of their ancestors by: caring for the land and for living things carrying out certain rituals and ceremonies passing on Dreaming secrets to the next generation.

Remember… The Dreaming is The law History Lore (knowledge that guides Aboriginal societies)