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ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS: An Ethnographic Essay (By SimoTheFinlandized / Paul Palazzolo - Written In 2022 CE)

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS: An Ethnographic Essay (By SimoTheFinlandized / Paul Palazzolo - Written In 2022 CE) | ============================================================== ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS: An Ethnographic Essay (By SimoTheFinlandized / Paul Palazzolo - Written In 2022 CE) ============================================================== Indigenous Australians are the native peoples of Australia. They include the Aboriginal Australians as well as Torres Strait Islanders, and are often known together as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In the past, Indigenous Australians used weapons like boomerangs, digging sticks, and spears to kill animals and gather plants for food. They were organized into various semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer clans who traveled from one place to another for sustenance. It is unknown where they originally came from and how they appeared in Australia, but it is commonly estimated they have been living in their homeland for around 60,000 years or more. Aboriginal people also have their own distinctive type of art. Many Indigenous Australians suffered when Europeans from Britain and Ireland arrived in Australia. Disease and the loss of their traditional hunting-&-foraging lands are two of the primary reasons. =============================================================== HISTORY: =============================================================== The first people of Australia were nomadic people who came to Australia from southeast Asia. Scientists do not know exactly when they arrived, but it is at least 50,000 years ago. When the British came to Australia in 1788, they called these native people "aboriginals", meaning people who had lived there since the earliest times. There are now about 650,000 Aboriginal people living in Australia. ================================================================= THE DREAMTIME: ================================================================= Aboriginal Australians believe that they have animal, plant, and human ancestors who created the world and everything in it. This ongoing process of creation is called Dreamtime. There are many songs and stories about the Dreamtime, which generations of Aboriginal-Australian people have passed down to their children. ================================================================= ART: ================================================================= The modern-day art of the Aboriginal Australians is mostly based upon the age-old stories about the Dreamtime. Paintings of the people, spirits, plants and animals of Dreamtime cover sacred cliffs and rocks in tribal territories. Some of the pictures are made in red and yellow ochre and white clay, while others have been carved directly into the rocks. Many are thousands of years old. ================================================================= BOOMERANGS: ================================================================ As well as the curved returning boomerang, Aboriginal Australians have traditionally used a straight, non-returning boomerang as an expedient weapon for fighting and for hunting large animals such as kangaroos. =============================================================== LAND-CLAIMS: =============================================================== When British people came to live in Australia, they decided that the land was empty: that nobody "owned" the land, in the way Europeans used that word. This was called "terra nullius", Latin words for "empty land". In 1976, the Australian government agreed that Aboriginal people have rights to the land where their tribes were originally located and gained the right to use the land. On 3 June, 1992, the High Court of Australia said that the idea of terra nullius was wrong, and the government brought in new laws, to set up Native Title. If Aboriginal people can prove they have always used particular land, it has not been sold, or changed by government acts, then the land could be claimed as Aboriginal land. ============================================================== SOURCES: ============================================================== Studies, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (12 July 2020). "Indigenous Australians: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people". aiatsis.gov.au. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Indigenous and European Contact in Australia". Britannica Kids. Retrieved 2021-06-07. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hesp, Patrick A. et al 1999. Aboriginal occupation on Rottnest Island, Western Australia, provisionally dated by aspartic acid racemisation assay of land snails to greater than 50 ka. Australian Archaeology, No 49 (1999) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Stone Pages Archaeo News: Australia colonized earlier than previously thought?". stonepages.com. 2003. Retrieved 28 March 2013. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dreaming Online: Indigenous Australian Timeline". www.dreamtime.net.au. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2009-06-04. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australia census: Five takeaways from a changing country". BBC News. 27 June 2017. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australian Bureau of Statistics Archived 2010-04-29 at the Wayback Machine 2006 Census data --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "10 Facts About Aboriginal Art | Kate Owen Gallery". www.kateowengallery.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Terra Nullius". Aboriginal Victoria. Visit Victoria. Archived from the original on 2010-03-18. Retrieved 2010-01-11. ================================================================ | image tagged in simothefinlandized,aboriginal,australia,essay | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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by SimoTheFinlandized
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The aloha spirit

The aloha spirit | Hawai'ians invented surfing. It wasn't just for fun however. Ultimately it was a way to commune with the sea Gods. | image tagged in silver surfer,culture,tradition,pagan,religious | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
by AlaskaNativeManitou
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Actor Bob Hoskins was Roma.

Actor Bob Hoskins was Roma. | The Roma people originally came from the India/Pakistan area 500-1000 years ago. They were likely driven out by war. Europeans saw their dark skin & called them Egyptians; this was eventually simplified to Gypsies. They faced so much oppression that they made a rule forbidding them to spend 2 nights in the same place; constant wandering was a form of self defense. There are thought to be 10-12 million Roma around today. | image tagged in gypsy romani flag,historical meme,discrimination,holocaust,stereotypes | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
by AlaskaNativeManitou
441 views, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

A short biopic on David Unaipon, the Aboriginal-Australian equivalent of "Leonardo Da Vinci" :3

A short biopic on David Unaipon, the Aboriginal-Australian equivalent of "Leonardo Da Vinci" :3 | David Unaipon (born David Ngunaitponi; 28 September 1872 – 7 February 1967) was an indigenous Australian preacher, inventor, writer and activist. He was a member of the Ngarrindjeri nation. He was born at Point McLeay, a Lutheran mission located on the mouth of the Murray River southeast of Adelaide. As an inventor, he invented the modern sheep-shearer, centrifugal motor, a multi-radial wheel, helicopter blades, and a mechanical propulsion device, deriving many of his designs from Aboriginal-Australian tools and weaponry. As a preacher and activist, he preached widely throughout South Australia, often travelling on foot, preaching that Aboriginal-Australian beliefs and Christiann religion are similar (if not the same) in nature, and advocating for Aboriginal-Australian rights and welfare. He also became the first Aboriginal Australian to publish extensive written works in the English language. Unaipon's portrait is featured on the Australian $50 bank note in commemoration. | image tagged in fun facts with simothefinlandized | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
by SimoTheFinlandized
139 views, 3 upvotes, 2 comments

P.S. My fiancee RetroTheFloof has stated he is part Native-American, so I'd thought I pay it forward by joining this stream :3

P.S. My fiancee RetroTheFloof has stated he is part Native-American, so I'd thought I pay it forward by joining this stream :3 | Hi, I'm Brand-New On This Stream - What Do I Do Now That I'm Here? I joined this stream because I have a very avid interest in studying and understanding Native Peoples from around the world, as well as their cultures and societies; in particular I am fond of the Aboriginal-Australians (whom I actually studied quite a lot in my free-time when I was a few years younger - they're pretty awesome, not gonna lie) - I was wondering if I could join this stream as an ally of the Native Peoples and potentially make some infographics about the various native peoples of the world so as to educate other people about them, and post them on here - is that okay with you all if I do that? Just wondering :3 | image tagged in simothefinlandized announcement template 3 0 | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
by SimoTheFinlandized
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Tell your ocelot I said pss pss pss...

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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Hope at last??

by anonymous
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They were driven out from 1917-1944.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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Sleeping Shaq

by anonymous
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Who Killed Hannibal

by anonymous
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Texas things

by anonymous
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Cool dudes.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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Disgusting.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
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I wonder what the Roma (Gypsies) think of her.

by AlaskaNativeManitou
99 views, 2 upvotes
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