Indigenous Balanced Environment

3.2 Balanced Environment

According to Indigenous point of view, epistemology is created by three worlds such as physical, human and sacred (Foley, 2003). The physical world compresses with the land, the sky and the flora and the fauna which provide food and is the foundation of culture, spirit and identity of Indigenous tribes (Foley, 2003). Martin & Mirraboopa (2003) also supported the idea of Foley and he said that physical world play a vital role in Indigenous way of knowing. Furthermore, environment including mammals, birds, reptiles, insects or trees are part of being and the relatives of Indigenous people and they believe that they have responsibility to protect and conserve them (Martin & Mirraboopa, 2003). Martin & Mirraboopa (2003) also said that
Our people did not cut down trees for paper, nor did they mine metals for pencils, typewriters, computers, printouts, phones, facsimiles, photocopiers etc. They successfully sustained our people and environment as they talked, sang and danced the knowledge on to the young, while others used bark, branches,

In the Aboriginal Affairs Strategy, enacting the appropriate laws and policies for land, water and heritage site protection and Aboriginal integrated environmental management and decisions making are crucial to success the initiatives of balanced environment (Office of the Aboriginal Affairs Northern Territory, n.d.). The government set two objectives such as rangers and caring for country and land and natural resource management to achieve the expected goal of environmental sound and sustainable economic and social opportunities for present and future (Office of the Aboriginal Affairs Northern Territory,