aboriginal culture
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:36 pmAustralian Aborigines inhabited Australia for a least 25,000years, but were almost exterminated by the English colonizers. Captain Cook arrived to Australia in 1770.
The Aborigines were massacred by the colonizers and expelled from their land, especially from productive land. They were pushed to the North of the country, where temperatures reach 50 degree Celsius in very wet or extremely dry areas. The Aborigines are extremely spiritual people and by 1770 they were so primitive that they didn't know what metal was. Most instruments and artefacts were made from wood, rock or bones.
After Australia gained independence from England (but still with a very strong racial discrimination against anyone not descendent from the British) something much worse happened to the Aborigines. It is called "The lost Generation"; where Aboriginal children were kidnapped never to be seen again by their families.
Happily many things have changed for the better amongst aborigines today, and many discrimination laws have been reinforced. Racial discrimination is a very serious crime in Australia, and the government is giving extra support to indigenous communities.
Didgeridoo is musical instrument of wind, is a typical Australian flute.
In Internet there is information about several kinds of Spanish indigenous art: flamingo
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/conte ... t/14/2/283
The Aborigines were massacred by the colonizers and expelled from their land, especially from productive land. They were pushed to the North of the country, where temperatures reach 50 degree Celsius in very wet or extremely dry areas. The Aborigines are extremely spiritual people and by 1770 they were so primitive that they didn't know what metal was. Most instruments and artefacts were made from wood, rock or bones.
After Australia gained independence from England (but still with a very strong racial discrimination against anyone not descendent from the British) something much worse happened to the Aborigines. It is called "The lost Generation"; where Aboriginal children were kidnapped never to be seen again by their families.
Happily many things have changed for the better amongst aborigines today, and many discrimination laws have been reinforced. Racial discrimination is a very serious crime in Australia, and the government is giving extra support to indigenous communities.
Didgeridoo is musical instrument of wind, is a typical Australian flute.
In Internet there is information about several kinds of Spanish indigenous art: flamingo
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/conte ... t/14/2/283