G’Day Mates!!! Welcome to Australia! NEW SEATS!

Why think about aboriginal people in Australia?

From a traveling perspective… Cultural Immersion = Cultural Sensitivity

From a literary perspective… Why do people write? What do they write about? How is/was information passed from generation to generation? How is what each culture writes about different because of what they have been through as a culture?

From a personal perspective… Understanding the experiences of others helps us understand our own experiences. This is true on personal, cultural, and historic levels. (The experience of indigenous Australians is similar to the experiences of indigenous/native Americans)

Who are the Australian Aborigines?

The Meaning of the word Aborigine and Aboriginal “The word "aborigines" is usually used to refer to the original native people of an area before the arrival of invading or colonizing people from elsewhere” ( It is derived from the Latin stem words ab+origine meaning 'from the beginning'.

Did the earliest Aboriginal people blow across the sea from Indonesia in a storm?

As waters rose, they were forced inland.

40,000-60,000 years old

Nomadic culture

Highly structured society

Over 700 tribes

Origins and Lifestyles Origins Of Asian descent Maybe blew over by sea from Indonesia Northern tip of Cape York Peninsula Lived in for Australia 40,000-60,000 years Nomadic: Hunter-gatherers Highly structured society Lifestyle

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Dreamtime

Songlines

Ayers Rock- ULURU

The Great Barrier Reef

Fire

Dreamtime and Songlines Dreamtime Explains creation Includes spiritual, physical, and human worlds. Rituals and ceremonies are done during dreamtime Spirits sang landscape, etc. into existence, mythical explanations for everything; waterfalls, Ayers Rock, fire, etc. Songlines

Totem culture

Totem Culture Each clan identified with one animal being (whom they came from) Social Totemism: concept of environmental stewardship Ritual Totemism: sacred sites, rites, responsibilities

Food

“It is estimated that there were approximately 320,000 aborigines in about 250 tribal groups at the time the first European settlers arrived in Australia in Each group had its own territory, traditions, beliefs and language” ( European settlershttp://panique.com.au

Group Members 1 person to hold the poster 1 or 2 people to explain the myth in an engaging way 1 or 2 people to review charted material: –Title –Purpose/moral –Characters/phenomenon –Connection to Aboriginal lifestyle

Mythology Has purpose/explains events Supernatural Specific Characters (animals/humans) Insight into cultures and lifestyle

Bell Work –Take a yellow handout as you enter –Take out your paper bag –Put EVERYTHING else away PAINT ETTIQUETTE! - NO mixing colors - ONE color per cup (to save and share) …a little goes a loooooong way - CLEAN BRUSH TIPS each color change!

Reminders: -Share paint/paint board- please do not waste the resources- -take less than you need and restock as you go - Keep a clean work area

Neatness Counts! Have Fun!

Australia Day Three: Dreamtime and Creation stories Initiation rites for boys and girls Male and Female roles Totem culture Walk-abouts

Your notes today should be set up like this… Males Roles Female Roles Initiation Rituals Walkabouts Totem Culture Write down notes from the discussion in class for each of the categories to the left…

Male Roles

Male Roles in Aboriginal Society: Hunters Warriors (use of weapons) Elders To teach the young boys the same rituals and tribe lessons of manhood that had been taught to them

Female roles

Female Roles in Aboriginal Society… Gathers Warriors (fearless toward things of this world) Motherhood Perform ceremonies for younger girls that had been performed for them

Initiation Rituals Rethink Burr- Nong

Boys as young as 11, and Girls as young as 9 received initiation rites… *Boys -To learn tribal lore (history) -Dancing and chanting that mimics creation stories -Separation from women -Weapon presentation -Walkabouts (about 13) -How to fight *Girls -Finger joint/nose piercing ceremony (endurance of pain) -Dancing and music (pleasing the spirits) -Gathering tools presentation (for gathering food) -Smoke ceremony (purify) -Marriage

Tools

Walkabout

Walkabouts were an initiation rite for boys around the age of 13… Ritual path to manhood Sent out with a ceremony (dancing, singing…) Given tools (boomerang, throwing stick for a spear) Elders led boys to secret places within tribal boundaries where they were left to roam until they had received a message from the spirit world to return to the clan