ATS2269 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gurindji People, Northern Peninsula Area Region, Bark Painting
15 Oct 2018
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More diversity than just aboriginals and torres strait islander people. Indigenous australia is similarly as diverse as europe. 275+ groups of people before colonisation, 600+ dialects, 2 distinct cultural groups (aboriginals & Country > term used by indigenous people to talk about their home lands. Visual art forms and song/poetry > used in ceremonial context. Ceremonies can be very technical and important, not just a fun thing. 30 groups in victoria alone, 5 kulin nations around melbourne. European australians in government/historians have held certain ideas about indigenous people which perpetuate ideas about the simple native" creating myths and stereotypes. Yanyuwa > indigenous australian people of the northern territory (sir edward. Pellew group of islands in gulf of carpentaria) They weren"t nomadic > they were very strategic, had stable food sources, used fire to stimulate new growth, use of plantations, eel farms, fish traps.
