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Question 1

When did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures adapt to accommodate?

Answer 1

1788

Question 2

Before arrival of European, how many different language groups and many cultural ways were there?

Answer 2

270

Question 3

What is Aboriginal Dreaming?

Answer 3

The knowledge of grandparents in their living state are absorbed in a ‘resource bank’ when they are dead.

Question 4

How many Aboriginal languages were in Australia when Europeans arrived. What happened next?

Answer 4

250 Aboriginal languages in Australia when Europeans arrived. Today, 145 Aboriginal languages are still spoken and only 18 stay strong by people of all ages.

Question 5

In the past, what happened in Australia?

Answer 5

There have been conflict between tribal groups, and these were rarely over land.
They have strong sense of belonging to country, but not to own land of others.

Question 6

What are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values?

Answer 6

Totemism. A belief that connects human beings to other animals, plants and aspects of nature

Question 7

What are the traditional methods for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to gather food?

Answer 7

Fish traps, subsistence agriculture, hunting and harvesting.

Question 8

What is the Customary Law for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander?

Answer 8

Leadership and etiquette
Property
Sacred knowledge

Question 9

How do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trade?

Answer 9

They trade by using coastal shells and stone hatchets

Question 10

Explain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family and kinship

Answer 10

You can have many mothers, fathers, uncles and aunts in family and kinship.

Question 11

What is Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act 1869?

Answer 11

“protect” them from uncivilized culture
Gain extensive control over Aboriginal people
Remove children from their family.