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In reference to the movie 10 Canoes and other research, discuss the importance of the Dreaming in the life of Aboriginal people.
Dreaming is an extremely important part of life for Aboriginal people. The Dreaming or Dreamtime is the Aboriginal understanding of the world of its creations and its great stories. The Dreaming world was the old time of the Ancestor Beings. They emerged from the earth at the time of the creation. Time began in the world the moment these supernatural beings were "born out of their own Eternity" (Aboriginalart.com.au, 2018).
Aboriginal people disclose their Dreaming stories to pass on knowledge, cultural values, traditions and law to future generations. Their Dreamtime stories are passed on through various sacred customs such as ceremonial body painting, storytelling song and dance. (Artlandish Aboriginal Art Gallery, 2018). Dreamtime stories have a major importance in the daily lives of the adherents of the Aboriginal culture. This importance is demonstrated in the Australian film Ten Canoes, in this film and is established through the representation of kinship, belonging to the land and tribal law and ancient storytelling.
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The film 10 canoes explores the intrinsic relationship of Australian Aborigines with there land.
The land is not part of them; they are part of the land. (State Library of NSW, 2018). The land to which they belong is the foundation of both their individual and group identity. This is reflected in the way the film captures daily tribal life: the gathering and preparing of food, the crafting of canoes, huts and spears as well as significant events, like the goose egg hunting initiation, this ultimately showing the strengths of belonging the Yolngu tribe experiences with their ancestral landscape. In doing this, the film also depicts the connections of kinship between members of Aboriginal tribes and their interactions with other
tribes. The narrative the 10 canoes is essentially a morality tale, told as part of an oral tradition. (IMDb, 2018) The “storyteller” frames the film, and within this frame, an aboriginal elder, Minygululu, tells a younger man Dayindi, a broad and far-reaching ancestral story in order to educate him about the tribe's values, attitudes and history. In doing so, Dayindi is prevented from breaking tribal laws and alienating himself from his tribe. Aboriginal Dreamtime had and a major importance to past generations and still has an important part of the adherents and their daily lives. This significance is illustrated in the Australian film, the 10 canoes through storytelling, kinship and land. All of these representations demonstrate the importance of the dreaming in the life of Aboriginal people.
This scene the director included non-diegetic sound such as their traditional Aboriginal music which represent their wise and their culture. The director of this film also carefully chose an elder that could represent Aboriginal people and depict their knowledge and understanding of their land. Costumes plays an important role in this scene as what they are wearing as an equal person who lives in Australia. The Aborigines are wearing traditional clothes while the kid wears their type of clothes which demonstrate that everyone is equal. This relates back to the traditional wisdom and what people should do when encounter an
Storytelling is as much part of the tradition of the Native community as it is their identity. Storytellers and their prophecies are used to navigate the modern world by aiding in the constant obstacles that continue to make Native people question themselves and their belief systems. The best way to explain this concept is by starting at the end.
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Paige Raibmon’s book “Authentic Indians” take a closer look at the concept of authenticity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Focusing on the culturally diverse Aboriginal people of the Northwest Coast, Raibmon examines how both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people constructed and used the idea of the authentic Indian to achieve their goals. Drawing examples from three ‘episodes’ or stories about Aboriginal people of the Northwest Coast, Raibmon argues that authenticity is not a set marker that we can use to measure the distance between what an Aboriginal culture looks like today and what “real” Aboriginal culture looks like. Instead, Raibmon says that authenticity is an important and changing set of ideas that were used in different ways to achieve different results including solidifying the many perceived dichotomies between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. She also discusses how the concept of authenticity was not only important to Aboriginal and non Aboriginal relationships in the late nineteenth century but also to these same relationships in the present.
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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 ...
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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)
LaDuke, Winona. All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999. Print.
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Out of all the texts closely studied in class; Listen deeply, let these stories in written by Kathleen Kemarre Wallace was one of my favourites. The title itself was beautiful. It felt like it was somewhat of an invitation to the reader, to come and listen and learn from the Indigenous people and about ancient traditions of the Altyerre spirits (it been a gift to us). The lavishly illustrated text, not only includes details of artworks, it too features traditional Eastern Arrernte stories in English and Eastern Arrernte, other traditional stories told by the author herself and attractive Aboriginal art relating to both Aboriginal culture and spiritual beliefs. Wallace’s book, however, also introduces to us the notion that story is not always just purely a text or a piece of written word, it is