Ceremonies play a big role in Aboriginal religion. ... During these ceremonies they chant, sing, and dance for Ancestral beings asking for enough food and rain. ... During the initiation ceremonies songs and stories of Ancestral Beings are told, some of the stories told during the ceremony are open for women and children to hear but other stories are "secret-sacred" for only the initiates to hear. ... Burial rituals within the culture are treated very different than regular ceremonies. ... Typically in Aboriginal culture a loved one's burial consists of two stages each accompani...

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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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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia are the oldest living cultural history in the world, they go back at least 50-65,000 years- indigenous groups used to and still do use dance as a way of celebrating special ceremonies, expressing their feelings and beliefs towards such as religion, stories and ancestral heroes. ...

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In the bicentenary of Captain Cook's landing at Kurnell, the site that was previously home to the old Aborigines Protection Board at La Perouse a ceremony of mourning that called for "Land Rights - Nationally - Now" was held. ...

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From commemorative programs and Anzac ceremonies held at schools across the nation, to dawn services, which originated on the shores of Albany, Western Australia on the 25th of April 1923 (Australian War Memorial, 2014), Australia as a nation has adhered to the legend. ...

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