Aboriginal Reltion To Country
"No English words are good enough to give a sense of the links between an Aboriginal group and its homeland" (Frog and Toad's Indigenous Australia) Country is an English word used to describe the values, places, resources, stories and cultural obligations associated with a certain geographical area and its components. In aboriginal cultural, all of country is important, there is no wilderness. Due to the importance of country, it is not surprising that aboriginal people are strongly connected to the land. Aboriginal Australians are spiritually connected to the land through the Dreaming stories which define sacred sites, totems, ceremonies, and the importance of life. It is these significant spiritual connections created during the Dreamings that encouraged Aboriginal people to form physical connections to the land through specific types of ownership, interconnected lands and wildlife, and management that strives to maintain biodiversity.
Aboriginal people have an extremely......
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