dreamtime Flashcards
What is dreamtime?
It describes the time when ancestral spirits made the world, including its landscapes, animals, and rules. Dreamtime includes creation stories and a timeless dimension where past, present, and future are interconnected. It helps guide Aboriginal people in their cultural and spiritual lives, shaping their identity and values.
When was dreamtime?
65,000 years ago
“I sentence you..”
Many of the first Europeans that came to Australia were criminals - instead of going to prison in Britain, they were given work and helped build up the colony.
The last convicts were sent to australia in 1866 till people had found gold there - so it wasn’t exactly a punishment.
The first ship came to Australia in 1788 and there were about 1,500 peop
rabbit proof fence movie
The movie is based on a true story and follows three Aboriginal girls, who are separated from their families and sent to a (remote) boarding school, where they are to adapt into white culture. They decide to escape through the desert to find their home, using a long fence built to keep rabbits out of areas.
the lucky country
The person who wrote this wanted to figure out why australia is called “the lucky country”. The problems that he found was to be careful when swimming, stay out of the sun, an anrea in sydney with a lot of drugs. The last but biggest problem was how bad the aborigines were treated.
In 1965 they were only allowed to keep half of the money they earned - the rest went into a bank account by the police.
In 1969 aboriginal kids were taken from their parents to grow up in white foster homes.
The aborigines got the right to vote in 1967.
why was there a rabbit proof fence?
it was build in 1907 to keep the rabits out of western australia because the rabbits ate all of the grass which was meant for the cows and the sheeps.
what did the first white man bring to australia?
“weird animals” like horses, cows, sheeps, and rabbits
did the rabbit proof fence work?
no, because there were already more rabbits on the western side of australia rather than the south.
