Pre-contact+Aboriginal+culture

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===Aboriginies are believed to have lived for about 50,000 years. The natives formed about 500 tribes each to do with its language. They lived by hunting and gathering food. Each of the tribes were lead by religious leaders with no formal government. Sharing things was a strong tradition for the Aboriginal culture. This sharing also applied to food: for example, the law stated how a kangaroo should be divided among the group.===

===The weapons that Aboriginal people used since the Dreamtime are spears, stone knives, shields, boomerangs and fighting sticks. There are more weapons but these are the main ones used for hunting. Large animals are hunted by men and the small animals are gathered by women. The chance of success in obtaining animals is related to size: for example, large animals are hard to obtain, but provide a lot of meat. Small animals individually provide little meat but obtained regurally can provide alot of meat.===

===The other is an infinite spiritual cycle called the "dreamtime," more real than reality itself. Whatever happens in the dreamtime establishes the values, symbols, and laws of Aboriginal society. Some people of unusual spiritual powers have contact with the dreamtime. The Aboriginals told there story so called "The Dreamtime" oraly and also by explaining a story by drawing the events. Aboriginals religion is characterised by having a god or many gods that created people and the environment surrounding the people. Aboriginals are very religious and spiritural, but rather than praying to a single god they cannot see.===