1 The Dreamtime is how the aboriginal view the world and how it was created the Dreamtime is a way for the aboriginal culture not to loose there culture in our modern society. The Dreamtime or dreaming are story passed down though generations of aboriginals these stories show the aboriginal having a very strong connection to the ground and earth. some of these stories include the rainbow serpent and Tiddalik the frog.
2 Cradle Mountain
3 research has shown that the aboriginal have lived in Tasmania since the last ice age this was between 10 and 12 thousand years ago this was way before the first European settlement. The aboriginals that live near the mountain were the Big River Tribe. The aboriginal did not live in this environment for too long mostly because of the environment but instead they relocated to the valley near the mountain this area had more fertile soil and better hunting. The reason Cradle Mountain and the area around it means so much to the aboriginal is because of there heritage and the
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aboriginal did live there for thousands of years. The aboriginal that live in that area of Tasmania were know as the Big River Tribe or aboriginal Tasmanians today, before the British colonials came to Tasmania the population of the aboriginal were thought to be between 3,000 and 15,000 throw out Tasmania, around the 19th century there was a major depletion of the people, historian believe this to be because of the diseases brought over by the European and British settlers.
Other historians believe that the black war one of the earliest recorded genocides of modern history and they believe that caused the decrease In population. The Tasmanian aboriginal had a rich culture of visual arts craftsmen ship and building, in fact the Tasmanian aboriginal were quite advanced for a tribal people they created stone tools created visual arts built houses even held ceremonies for just women and ceremonies for the entire Tribe, they also were able to weave baskets to help with gatherings and transporting food to the
tribes. The aboriginal story varies from person to person and is quite hard to find on the internet but I did find the reason it’s called cradle Mountain and the white explorer who found it. There were two explorers who found Cradle Mountain, the name of the first explorer was Gustav Weindorfer And The second was Kate Weindorfer. Kate died in 1916 and Gustav died in 1932 the reason the mountain was named Cradle Mountain is because the Mountain looks like a miner cradle, so named Cradle Mountain. There really isn’t much information on how the aboriginals believe the mountain was formed, but scientists have formed a theory around how the mountain was formed. They believe in the last ice age the entire area was covered in ice then huge ice caps formed and glaciers carved the ridges into the mountain creating the mountain we know today I really couldn’t find any history on how the mountain was formed according to the aboriginals so I couldn’t create the venn diagram asked for.
The Australian Aborigines society is relatively well known in Western society. They have been portrayed accurately and inaccurately in media and film. Dr. Langton has attempted to disprove common myths about the infamous Australian society, as has her predecessors, the Berndt’s, and National Geographic author, Michael Finkel; I will attempt to do the same.
Within the Hornsby Shire there are more than 900 landmarks and indicators of the occurrence of an Aboriginal settlement as a result from the local tribe, the Guringai people. A major place of significance is through the up keeping and findings within the ‘Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.’ “Sir Henry Copeland (Australian Politician) named this location after the Aboriginal tribe whilst chase is an English word meaning an enclose land where animals were kept for hunting” (Hornsby Shire Council, n.d.) Throughout the landmark Aboriginal paintings, carvings, engravings, middens...
Ronald, M, Catherine, H, 1988, The World of the First Australians Aboriginal Traditional Life: Past and Present, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra
Dreamings or Dream Time creates access to the ancestral world. Based on research, the Aboriginal lifestyle can be divided into the human or what I think of as the real world, from the sacred world and the physical world. The human world, in which I will just call their “reality,” is the world that consists of the people, their culture in the generic form, and basically their daily lives. The sacred world is where Dreamings take place. It is the ancestral world where the world was created, where ancestors are roaming and creating. This world in not situated only in the past but also in the present (more will be said of this later). Finally, there is the Physical world which connects the previous two realms. The physical world is the landscape, it is nature, it is land formations it is the tangible materializations of the world. During their Dreamings or Dream Time, aboriginals witness and learn the creation stories that formed the physical world. The Myths of these stories goes often something like this: The sky gods where sleeping but then they arose and created the landscape by transforming into different characters along the way. Once the Sky Gods were done with formations they took the shape of different features of the land like rocks or mountains (Eliade 1973:45). The Dream Time then is a time to transcend from their reality to another worldly realm. This is in order to discover the stories of their ancestors and their totems. Here is where they learn the stories of their realities. What is interesting to analyze at this point, which has been done by Alan Rumsey (Rumsey 1994), is acknowledging that “Dreamtime is a sense of dreaming in that it is not taken place in the everyday life of reality. It is in the sense a different ...
Bourke, E and Edwards, B. 1994. Aboriginal Australia. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press.
Aboriginal spirituality originally derives from the stories of the dreaming. The dreaming is the knowledge and a sense of belonging that the Aboriginals had of the beginning of life and the relationship to the land and sea (Australian Museum, 2011). The dreaming stories are passed on from one generation to the next orally. These stories teach the following generations how to behave towards the land and other people. The dreaming stories give them a sense of duty to protect the land and appreciate it because the dreamtime stories indicate that the spirits have not died but are still alive in different forms as animals or humans, therefore the ancestor’s power is still felt through the landforms (Clark, 1963), (Australian Governement, 2008)
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