Aboriginal Beliefs

Pattel-Gray, Anne. “Aboriginal Spirituality: Past, Present, and Future.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 67, No. 2 (June, 1999), 496-499. Web. 26 November 2014.

: Aboriginal spirituality/identity is closely linked to the physical environment in which the community is born. The explanation of their being, laws and rituals are all tied in with their belonging to country so therefore how aboriginals live their lives is linked to their surroundings. The aboriginal spirituality began approx. 50 000 years before the Jesus.

Health and community service workers can identify the impact of cultural factors on service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait client by building cordial relationships with other local Indigenous community controlled organisations that can share valuable referral services and advice about issues regarding issues like death and dying, to provide for the needs of their clients and the clients' families.

During my Indigenous cultures and health tutorial, we had to draw our cultures. At first my mind went blank, but after a while I started thinking of what is culture and what is my world view, to clarify my understandings. I found the strong relation between culture and worldviews by thinking and reflecting back to what I’ve learned the past three weeks.

A few key beliefs of Aboriginal culture hold that the Earth is eternal, and the beings that created it are still accessible through rituals. These ancestors made the Earth during a period called Dreamtime, and that realm can be visited by humans through altered consciousness or dreams. 8 One Aboriginal man explained it thus: ‘By Dreaming we mean the belief that long ago these creatures started human society, they made all natural things and put them in a special

Australian indigenous culture has always been diverse and pluralistic. There is no one kind of Aboriginal people or community. They have their own distinct history, politics, culture and linguistic experience all over Australia. They are called by different names in different states. As I am from NSW, they are named as koori, koorie, goorie. And as I am from Sydney I would like to concentrate more on the Aborignial people who liked there called Gadigal people.

Religion in Australia has continually evolved since the beginning of the country’s existence (Reference). Originally, the traditional owners of Australia, Indigenous Australians, believed in the Dreamtime, and the idea that the

contemporary aboriginal & European relations. Last Indian Residential School in Canada closed (in BC last one closed in 1984).

The Aborigines are a society of people that focus on their original culture and traditions that have been there for thousands of years, long before Europeans discovered it, and their traditions are cherished and practiced to this day. On top of their traditional culture, they also have had a need to adapt to a modernizing world in their own right.

Aboriginal culture is so diverse in Victoria, with 38 languages and 11 language families. Many of the 38 languages are further divided according to clan groups and their traditional lands; while the 11 language families are grouped based on a common language, i.e. shared words, grammar and sounds. The uniqueness of each language is based on the location, and each one is entrenched to that land.

In some remote parts of Australia, people still practice small ceremonies. These ceremonies are in the form of dancing or ritual actions like singing and chanting. The purpose of these ceremonies is to invoke the Ancestral Beings for a wealthy supply of rain and food within the area. Nevertheless, they also practice the ceremonies to exercise their beliefs. However, the most important rituals are the initiation ceremonies for young adults, burial practices, smoking ceremonies, and ceremonial meetings of Australian Aboriginal peoples.

Australian Indigenous culture is claimed to be one of the oldest continuous living cultures in the world. They have approximately been on this land, Australia, for 40 000 years or more. However they weren’t alone on April 29th 1770 for Captain James Cook and his fellow botanists, Joseph Banks and Daniel Carl Solander had sailed in on the East Coast of Australia, Botany Bay. Some people call this colonisation, to establish a colony in; settle, but some people call this an invasion, entrance as if to take possession or overrun. The British did not have a right to come into this country and take over for it was the Indigenous people who looked after this land and claimed it for tens of thousands years. Violence is not the answer to trying to communicate and there was a feud between the two cultures. For many years during and after the invasion, the British had killed many Aboriginals and vice versa. Over-sea diseases were imported into Australia which the Aboriginals were not immune to. Children were removed from their homes so that they would

The word "aboriginal" means "the first" or "earliest known". The word was first used in Italy and Greece to describe the people who lived there, natives or the old inhabitants.

The Aboriginal people are one of few indigenous people left in our world. The Aboriginals live in Australia and have, as many indigenous people/groups, been treated badly for years. However they are being treated better now than before, but as an old group with old traditions it is hard to live in the same world as people who do not live by their culture. First in this article Aboriginal history will be compared to present time, succeeded by/before a description of two issues the indigenous people of Australia has to deal with in present time, and lastly there will be a conclusion.

The Aborigines’ religious beliefs are a core part of their culture; the tribe’s leaders are religious, having no political chief or official government. Dunlop (1997) stated that their religion is based on the belief that “the spirits of their ancestors remained at the watering place at the centre of the territory, awaiting reincarnation; connected to both the tribe's ancestors and the creators of the world, none of whom ever died but merged with the natural world and thus remained a part of the present” (para. 4). Having a religious intolerance for the Aborigine culture and numerous tribes is immoral and unethical; wanting to use their land to ignite another nuclear waste site proves that the federal government values what’s best for them, nuclear testing, than considering other’s beliefs.