Aboriginals project

1. in 2016 there were About 800,000 tousand indigenous Australiens

2. 80 percent of indigenous people live in the cities but 20 percent still live in nature

3. Aboriginals speak more than one aboriginal language. In Australia there is more than 250 ideginous languages. Their culture involves danicing and singing, they believe in spirits

4. the Australian state didnt treat the aborignials as humans but as animals.

5. "The dreaming" was a time when the Ancestral Spirits progressed over the land and created life

6. "The dreaming" has a similarity to christianity in the way god created everything

7. Why do Aboriginals have ceremonies?

7.1. Because the ceremonies are important to their culture

8. What do their ceremonies look like?

8.1. They sing and dance, and for some accations they paint themselves white and body decorate

9. How do boys and girls attend adulthood?

9.1. They sing and dance, story tell and decorate their bodies

10. Explain the funeral ceremonies: Primary burial and secondary burial.

10.1. Secondary:

10.1.1. Is when the bones are collected, then the bones get painted with red ochre, and then dispersed in different ways.

10.2. Primary

10.2.1. is when the corpse is laid out on an elevated wooden platform then the corpse is left to rot on the platform for months

11. What do the Aboriginal have in common with ceremonies in other religions that you know of?

11.1. The Coming of age ceremony is similar to other religions

11.2. Technilly we also let the bodies rot, but we just put them in coffins

12. What is different in Aboriginal ceremonies compared to ceremonies in other religions - such as Christianity, Islam etc.?

12.1. They do their ceromonies in the wild

13. 5. Research other Aboriginal ceremonies here - note down what you find to be most interesting.

13.1. They have smoking ceremonis where they burn native plants

13.2. They have a something called "walkout" where they send adolescent males out to live for themselvles to become a man.