Author: hootiejo

Aboriginal Connection to Land

Indigenous people have occupied Australia for at least 60 000 years and have evolved with the land; changing it and changing with it.		Indigenous people lived in a hunter and gatherer life where they hunted animals and collected fruits, berries and other plants.
	To maintain the health of the land, family groups would only stay in an area for a certain time and only hunt and used specific foods in that season.
Using only what was needed and only what was plentiful, meant there would always be sufficient food for the next season.		Indigenous people use natural features of the landscape to identify and mark the land. This system is connected with stories of the Dreaming and Spirit Ancestors.

		True	False
1.	The Indigenous people arrived in Australia at the same time as the European settlers .
2.	The land is very important to Indigenous people and they are spiritually connected to it.
3.	The Indigenous people hunted food in certain areas until all the food was gone.
4.	Indigenous people used natural features of the landscape to mark areas rather than maps.
5.	A hunter gatherer hunts their own food and collects food that is plentiful in specific areas.
6.	The features of the land are part of the Dreaming stories.
7.	Maintaining the health of the land was not important to Indigenous people.