Indigenous AustraliansBy Katie Watson
Traditional welcome
Aboriginal flag
Black = The people Red: The earth Yellow: The Sun
Aboriginal people
• The word Aboriginal means “original inhabitants” in Latin (where many of our words come from)
• They migrated from Asia 30,000 years ago when they could walk across what is now an ocean.
• There are 400,000 Aboriginal people in Australia (2% of our population)
• Before the British arrived in Australia 223 year ago Aboriginal people lived off the land
The Dreamtime
• The Dreamtime = the beginning of time
• Pass down stories to the younger generations
• Aboriginal people believe that ancestors who have died turn into mountains, and rocks.
• A Dreamtime story:
http://australianmuseum.net.au/movie/How-the-water-got-to-the-plains
Our Dreamtime story
• Lets write our own Dreamtime story.
• What will we write about?
Aboriginal culture
• They loved art, dance and songs.
• In art they used to sculpture thing, do rock and bark paintings, make baskets and do beadwork.
• Their traditional dance is called the corroboree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFkViuQMGU&feature=related
• They love to play the didgeridoo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g592I-p-dc
Bush Tucker
• Bush tucker link:
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bangercc/bushtuckerlist.html
Where they live
• Australia as we know it:
Where they live
• Australia as the Aboriginal people know it:
How they live
• Aboriginal people know the time of day by listening to bird sounds, watching the shadows and following the path of the sun.
• Aboriginal people know the time of the year by temperature, plant life, animal movements and environment factors. Calendars and clocks are not needed.
Aboriginal homes
• Aboriginal shelter link:
http://www.aboriginalenvironments.com/index.html?page=39084
Activity
• Think about what materials Aboriginal people would have had available to them.
• Design your own home using only what you can find in the bush.
• Write down:
1. What you will use
2. Why you chose these materials
3. How you will make it
4. Draw what it would look like
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