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    Aboriginal Cooking Methods The traditional ways to cook for aboriginals used to involve roasting their food on hot coals‚ baking in the ashes & steaming in ground ovens. But today theses things have changed & the aboriginals have easier ways to cook using ’technology’ from today. They have adapted to make the process easier by boiling & barbequing. Roasting; When cooking meat‚ this was the basic technique‚ which was almost always used. They cooked most meat‚ fish & small turtles. To make sure

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    Could you imagine a dark cloud coming over the United States large cities for 10 years. Well in the 1930s‚ a depression erupted causing millions of people to lose their jobs and making many banks and businesses go under. The depression effects made millions of people across the country try to stretch each dollar and the president had to step in with his new deal to save his country. To begin‚ the people of the United States had to stretch each dollar as far as it would go. Trying to stretch

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    Aboriginal Traditions

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    Lesson 6: The Aboriginal World View There are numerous details included in the essay that indicate that the author is Aboriginal. For example‚ in the leading sentence of the essay‚ he states that he was “born on a trapline” and learned to speak Cree as his first language. This clearly shows right from the start that he was raised in an Aboriginal environment. The fact that he lived on a trapline also demonstrates the hunter-gatherer way of life that many Aboriginals lead in order to utilize the

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    Stage 4- Depression I stood for what seemed like hours‚ not quite believing what I seeing. I stared... and stared... and stared. I stared until my tired eyes hurt‚ stared until they started to water‚ my rigid posture slowly crumbling as I came to the realization that Beth Childs was… dead. My Beth was dead. I fall to the ground and curl into a ball‚ throwing Donnie’s stupid wedding ring to the ground. He wasn’t my Beth. The room spun as I drunk from a liquor bottle that had somehow snuck into my

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    Methodist mission in the Northern Territory. When the mission lease expired‚ the Federal Government changed it to a special purpose lease that could be taken away for mining‚ but no Aboriginal people were consulted. When the Methodist missionaries Edgar and Ann Wells arrived at Yirrkala‚ they learnt that the Aboriginal people were very disturbed and anxious that the mining would violate their sacred sites but despite the feelings of the Aborigines‚ the Prime Minister‚ Robert Menzies‚ announced that

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    Aboriginals and the Land

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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

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    Aboriginal Identity in Post-Colonial Australia The ‘colonisation’ of Australia by Europeans has caused a lot of problem for the local Aborigines. It drastically reduced their population‚ damaged ancient family ties‚ and removed thousands of Aboriginal people from the land they had lived on for centuries. In many cases‚ the loss of land can mean more than just physical displacement. Because land is so much connected to history and spirituality‚ the loss of it can lead to a loss of identity. This

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    health of the Aboriginal people can be attributed to the erosion of the Aboriginal culture.(chp.2). Restrictions placed on the cultural practices of the Aboriginal people ultimately led to the abatement of the Aboriginal traditional medicines.(p88). Losing their freedom to practice traditional therapeutics‚ the Aboriginal people eventually had to adapt to the culturally inappropriate ways of western medicines. The purpose of this paper is to examine the advantages of Aboriginal healing methods

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    Thousands of years ago‚ Australian Aboriginal people were living in accordance with their dreamtime beliefs- today‚ a majority of the Aboriginal community profess allegiance to Christianity‚ and only 3% still adhere to traditional beliefs. These beliefs have provided the Aboriginal people with guidance and perspective on all aspects of life. There were many variants to these beliefs and practises throughout the many Aboriginal tribal areas‚ but all Aboriginal people have developed an intimate relationship

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    Aboriginal Histories and Aboriginal Perspectives Essay QUOTE: “I would not hesitate for one moment to separate any half-caste from its Aboriginal mother‚ no matter frantic her momentary grief might be at the time. They soon forget their offspring.” C.F. Gale‚ Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia‚ 1909‚ quoted in Tatz‚ C. (1999)‚ Genocide in Australia. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Research Discussion Paper number 8‚ Canberra: AIATIS

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