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Return to Home The relationship of the land to the Aboriginal are very special. Although to the non-aboriginal, it is less important than having a very large colony. The Aboriginals worship the land like a god of their own and treat it with respect. Many things like wall painting are used to tell stories of the land which they are connected to. Each tribe manages one land and then goes to another, taking care of the land having a reward of using the land. To the non-aboriginals, they use much of the land than taking care of it. Most of the Aboriginal's land were destroyed to make crops for others and or to even replace some of the land to make a prison for british imates around 1788.

An example of aboriginal territory is ULURU (ayers rock). Uluru is a large sandstone rock which is located in the northern territory and is sacred to the Aboriginals. Aboriginals say that if the whites want to climb it they must not break up pieces of the land, and they also say that it is bad luck to take a piece of the rock away from the land. They believe that if you do, you would live a life of misery and agony. Many white Australians have walked around Uluru and many Believe that if they take a sample of the rock they would be cursed with bad luck.

A word that has a great impact on the Aboriginals is TERRA NULLIUS. Terra nullius means 'land belonging to nobody'. Aboriginals used this phrase because a long time ago they thought that nobody should own the land now known as 'AUSTRALIA' but it should be shared among everyone. When the Europeans arrived to Australia they saw that the land wasnt being occupied Australian Indigenous cultural heritage

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are complex and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passing their knowledge, arts, rituals and performances from one generation to another, speaking and teaching languages, protecting cultural materials, sacred and significant sites, and objects. Land - at the core of belief APY Lands, Ku Arts Tours. Courtesy of Ananguku Arts. Land is fundamental to the wellbeing of Aboriginal people. The land is not just soil or rocks or minerals, but a whole environment that sustains and is sustained by people and culture. For Indigenous Australians, the land is the core of all spirituality and this relationship and the spirit of 'country' is central to the issues that are important to Indigenous people today so they stole the land from the Aboriginals and



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