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Outdoor Education - Aboriginal People
Aboriginal People
To Aboriginal people the land provides all physical and spiritual needs.
It's a living thing, a dynamic place of creation. Pat Dodson (past Council
for Aboriginal Reconciliation Chairperson) has written "Land isn't just
bound up with geographical limitations that are placed on it by a surveyor,
who marks out a plot and says: 'This is your plot'. Land is the generation
point of existence; it's the maintenance of existence; it's the spirit from
which aboriginal existence comes. It's a place, a living thing made up of
sky, of clouds, of rivers, of trees, of the wind, of the sand, and of the
Spirit that's created all of those things; the Spirit that has planted my
own spirit there, my own country. It's something and yet it's not a thing;
it's a living entity." It is this spiritual and physical link with the land
that manifests itself in the way Aboriginals use the land now and in the
past.
Charles Perkins: raising awareness about Aboriginal issues.
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What are Australian Aborigines?
Aboriginal People:- Land is the generation point of existence; it's the maintenance of existence; it's the spirit from which aboriginal existence comes. It's a place, a living thing made up of sky, of clouds, of rivers, of trees, of the wind, of the sand, and of the Spirit that's created all of those things; the Spirit that has planted my own spirit there, my own country. It's something and yet it's not a thing; it's a living entity." It is this spiritual and physical link with the land that manifests itself in the way Aboriginals use the land now and in the past.
Respect for those who were there before any other civilization.
Which methods used aboriginal people in Australia.