Culture of AustraliaTraditional and as a result of colonization

Traditional culturesThe Aborigines (indigenous people of Australia)

The Maori(indigenous people of New Zealand)

AboriginesDidgeridoo - Instrument

What is its significance?

Boomerang – Weapon for huntingIf it doesn’t come back, you

know you have it something.

Walkabout – journey into the Outback as a symbol of manhood.

ReligionTraditional religions are practiced by the

aboriginesDreamtime – The name of the Aborigine

religion.This is known as Animism – All natural things

have a spiritual nature.

Watch the following video, and write down characteristics of Dreamtime.

MaoriMokos – Facial tattoos

that represent important things in their life. They are done with

chisel and ink, and it takes a long time.

Their culture is based off of oral story telling.Their writing is mainly

carvings that tell their stories.

Other things (canoe making and the Haka (war dance)

ReligionChristianity was brought over by the

Europeans.

SportsCricket

Rugby

LanguageEnglish is Australia and New Zealand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG0v9tZStAk

Aborigine beginningsAustralian Aborigines

Aboriginal comes the Latin words ab (from) origine (the beginning).

It is estimated that the first “Australians” migrated from Asia about 40,000 years ago….about the same time as the first “Americans”

came to America from Siberia on the Beringia land Bridge

What happened when the Europeans arrived?The English were the first (Europeans) to

claim and colonize Australia in the late 1700sThey were a little more creative in their

colonization efforts though…Australia became a penal colony under the

British CrownEngland shipped debtors and other criminals

to the island because it lacked room for it’s growing delinquent population

At the time that Australia was settled by the British there were as many as 1 million natives living in Australia.

The native population lingered near 60,000 toward the late 1800s

There are about 200,000 remaining today.Living in urban areas or in the “bush”

Quote from Survival International“Ever since the British first invaded, Aboriginal peoples have

had their land stolen from them or destroyed. Until 1992, when it was finally overturned, the legal principle governing British and then Australian law regarding Aborigines' land was that of 'terra nullius' – that the land was empty before the British arrived, belonged to no-one, and could legitimately be taken over. “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U0GcrcohHMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEiWnbmu5whttp://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/stolen-generations/clip1/\http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/stolen-generations/clip2/