Aboriginal HistoryAustralia’s indigenous people.

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Australia’s indigenous people

• What is your image of Australian Aborigines?• What do you know about them?• What has been their experience since

colonization?• What is their situation like today?

Japan’s indigenous people

• Who are Japan’s indigenous people?

• Where do they live now? Historically?

• What do you know about them?

• What is your image of them??

• What is their situation like today?

Where do Aborigines come from?The scientists:

Where do Aborigines come from?The Aboriginal Dreaming stories.

The Dreaming• The Dreaming has a very deep meaning for

Aboriginal people, but it’s not that easy to explain

• Watch these videos about the Dreaming. • What do you think the important ideas of the

Dreaming are?

Dreaming storiesMy culture is my identity. Dreamtime stories tell the life of my people. Growing older. Hearing stories of my ancestors living off the land Becoming one with the creatures Even though I haven't met them I feel this unbreakable connection Through the stories I have heard. The stories that have been passed down through generations. These stories are living through us. Without our culture we have no identity And without our identity We have nothing.

http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/aboriginal-poems/

Beliefs• The Dreaming is the core belief of Aboriginal

people.• It is the past and creation it is the connection

that Australian Aborigines have to the land. Their relationship to the land and everything in it is the basis of their spiritual life and shapes the Aboriginal culture.

• Land is fundamental to the well-being of all Aboriginal people.

Beliefs• Stories of the ‘Dreaming' explain how the land

including mountains and rivers, birds and animals were created.

• All things that were created in the Dreaming, have spirits and the spirits of the ancestors are passed to their descendants e.g. shark, kangaroo, honey ant, snake and so on.

• “What we draw on from our memories, and think, imagine and create in our daily lives is our dreaming.”

Contact with Europeans

48 William Macleod Aust., 1850-1929The Landing Of Captain Cook At Botany Bay [Kurnell], 1899.

Contact with Europeans

• The British discovered Australia in 1770.• In 1788 they sent a fleet of ships to settle

Australia• Based on what you know about the Dreaming,

and your own knowledge, what problems do you think Aboriginal people would have had when Europeans arrived.

Conflict

What is happening in the picture?What do you think might have caused it to happen?

Charles Darwin

Problems faced by Aborigines

• Land taken over & pushed out• Identity tied to land – loss of sacred space is

loss of identity.• Fighting over foods - land• Disease • Alcohol• Rape of women• 100 years 300,000 60,000

Policies have changed over time