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Title: Who are the Aborigines?


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Who are the Aborigines?
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Aborigines
  • Indigenous people of Australia
  • Have occupied Australia for at least 40,000
    years!
  • Arrived from Southeast Asia
  • The word aborigines means people who were here
    from the beginning

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Aborigines
  • Developed efficient ways to adapt to the harsh
    Australian environment
  • Built containers for storing water and built
    wells to collect water underground
  • They were hunters and gatherers ate animals,
    wild nuts, fruits, and berries.
  • They were nomadic--moved from place to place in
    search of food

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Aborigines
  • Archaeologists have found early Aboriginal
    inventions
  • Rock art, boomerangs, ground axes, and
    grindstones
  • There is no written record of prehistoric
    Aborigines
  • Kept their history by telling stories that were
    passed down from generation to generation

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Social Structure
  • Consisted of a tribe or language group of as
    many as 500 people
  • A tribe included bands called hordes or 10 to
    20 people
  • Hordes joined for daily food gathering and hunting

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Where?
  • Settled in the same places as present-day
    Australians
  • Climate was mild and water was available
  • Before Europeans arrived in 1788, around 500,000
    Aborigines lived in Australia

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Arrival of Europeans
  • Aborigines lived on Australias coast, which is
    where the Europeans wanted to settle
  • Europeans waged war against the Aborigines in
    order to take their land

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Advantage of Europeans
  • Guns
  • Soldiers
  • Diseases
  • More than half of the Aborigines in Australia
    died
  • Entire population died in Tasmania.

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What happened to remaining Aborigines?
  • Forced to live on reservations in the Outback
  • Forced to work for Europeans on sheep and cattle
    ranches
  • Laws were made to limit where Aborigines could
    live and work.
  • The British hoped to end all Aboriginal culture
    with their policies.

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Aborigines Today
  • 300,000 live in Australia today
  • In the 1960s, policies were changed to be in
    favor of Aborigines
  • Can hold a seat in Parliament
  • Can have their own schools which teach their
    culture, language, and art
  • Live modern lives, some are teachers, lawyers,
    mechanics, nurses and politicians

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Religion -- Dreamtime
  • Aboriginal religion is called Dreamtime
  • The Dreaming is what Aborigines call the
    beginning of life on Earth
  • During the Dreaming, spirits created the land,
    people, and animals
  • Most of the spirits disappeared, but some live on
    in objects
  • Believe the earth is a link to the spiritual
    world
  • The land itself is sacred to Aborigines
  • Aborigines have Dreamtime legends that describe
    how the earth was created

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Stories of the Dreaming
  • Lets watch a few Dreamtime legends
  • Dust Echos
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