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ABORIGINALS AND THE LAND

For a non aboriginal person, it is very hard for me to understand how vital the land is to the survival of the aboriginal culture. The Aboriginal people have a very close relationship with the land. They believe that he land was created by their ancestors for them and is very sacred. They also believe that the land is equal to them and hat everything comes from the same spirit world. The Aboriginal people passed down stories of the land through Dreamtime stories and artworks painted on rocks. The Aboriginals believed that the land was a part of them and that it was their identity. Most things that they did revolved around the land and using the land to effectively survive without harming it.

#PHYSICAL WORLD
" OUR LAND OUR LIFE "

'We don't own the land, the land owns us'

'The Land is my mother, my mother is the land'

'Land is the starting point to where it all began. It is like picking up a piece of dirt and saying this is where I......

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