Art, Ritual and Ceremony Australian Aboriginal people have a rich culture that includes elaborate cave and bark drawings, carved weapons and musical instruments such as the didgeridoo. ... Ceremonies have particular motivations and sometimes are exclusive by age or sex. Many ceremonies involve totems and expressions of the Dreaming. ... In addition to religious ceremonies, some of the cave paintings recorded achievements of the clan. Paint used to decorate people gave the wearer a chance to participate in ritual ceremonies. ...

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However, whether this significance amounted to more than that achieved in a tanderrum ceremony in the Kulin's eyes is more debatable. ... Barwick suggests that a reason for this misunderstanding may be the common elements between two ceremonies: enfeoffment and tanderrum.10 The Batman treaty was based on enfeoffment, a feudal form of land tenure, which involved the passing of a handful of soil between the participants in the ceremony.11 The Kulin's also had a ceremony with a strikingly similar action: tanderrum. ... However, whilst these points are all initially significant, it is ...

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Aboriginal culture also has renewal ceremonies that involve song, dance and art; the ceremony regenerates the aboriginal communities. It also regenerates the celebration of the renewal of life and the changing of seasons; the ceremonies have a spiritual significance, in honoring the land and the people of the land celebrating the ancestors in "The Dreamtime". ...

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Aboriginal spirituality is derived from the concept of the Dreaming, where the roots lie in a variety of stories, ceremonies, values and structures. ... It sets out the structure of society and rules for ceremonies that are performed to maintain the life of the land. ... As this occurred they could not fulfil their religious obligations to protect the land and conduct spiritual ceremonies, which was and still is essential to life and the Dreaming. ...

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Just because we are white does it mean we are superior which gives us the right to black label people, for wrong doing. I do not think anyone has the right to label anyone for anything even if it is of a wrong doing so why do white people. Why does our community look for a black label as an answ...

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Where once, the people lived within a strong community governed by strict and just laws, and culture was sustained through stories of the past and ceremonies; the audience now sees only fragments of cultural links and bonds. ...

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"Pattern thinking is Aboriginal thinking. There is no big boss. Patterns are about belonging" (Stockton, 1995) 'Pattern thinking is 'Aboriginal way'; triangle thinking is 'Western way'. Patterns are about belonging. Nothing is separate from anything else. The land is not separate ...

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