Z G06: I&S Culture Shock: Australian Aboriginals

Information on Traditional Aboriginal life. Links at the bottom of the page include: Regional Variations; Religion; Social organisation; Art; Bags, Baskets, and Containers; Body Adornment; Bush Foods; Ceremonial Life; Fishing Methods; Fire Making; Housing and Shelters; Stone Tools; Tree Climbing; Wooden Tools and Weapons

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Ceremonies still play a vital part in the Aboriginal culture...

More than just a celebration, they are important community events where ancient stories and traditions are handed down to youngsters, as well as a time to come together and have fun. Everyone's welcome to join in...

National Geographic article on the disappearing traditional lifestyle of first Australians.

Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated Dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and Aboriginal custom and law.

Aboriginal artforms are recognised worldwide as among Australia’s most distinctive cultural contributions.

Sea eagles, long-necked tortoises, brolgas, goannas and canoes are just some of the things that the Yirrkala community in the Northern Territory represent with string figures.

Life art and culture with some links to more resources.

Indigenous Australians are not one group; Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders throughout Australia have different thoughts, ideas and beliefs. Today their cultures are a mix of contemporary and traditional ways and practices.

Spirituality for Indigenous Australians takes many forms.

For indigenous Australians, the arrival of British settlers in 1788 undoubtedly marked the start of dispossession, violence and policies that would cause generations of harm. But recent research has also given more insight into how Aboriginal groups used some colonial technology to their advantage, heritage experts say.

To many bookworms, the organisation of books in a library might seem like a trivial fact of little to no consequence.
But in the small East Arnhem Land community of Galiwin'ku, the re-organisation of library books according to local Indigenous concepts has been hailed as a quiet revolution.

Encyclopedia Britannica article