The original inhabitants of Australia are Indigenous Australians who arrived around 45,000 years ago. Indigenous Australians have distinct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures that include sacred ceremonies, rituals, instruments like didgeridoos and clap sticks. Totems are symbols that acknowledge flora and fauna and are considered sacred symbols passed down through generations. The Dreaming refers to the spiritual relationships between elements of the world established by the Rainbow Serpent in Aboriginal beliefs.
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The original inhabitants of Australia are Indigenous Australians who arrived around 45,000 years ago. Indigenous Australians have distinct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures that include sacred ceremonies, rituals, instruments like didgeridoos and clap sticks. Totems are symbols that acknowledge flora and fauna and are considered sacred symbols passed down through generations. The Dreaming refers to the spiritual relationships between elements of the world established by the Rainbow Serpent in Aboriginal beliefs.
The original inhabitants of Australia are Indigenous Australians who arrived around 45,000 years ago. Indigenous Australians have distinct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures that include sacred ceremonies, rituals, instruments like didgeridoos and clap sticks. Totems are symbols that acknowledge flora and fauna and are considered sacred symbols passed down through generations. The Dreaming refers to the spiritual relationships between elements of the world established by the Rainbow Serpent in Aboriginal beliefs.
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The original inhabitants of Australia are Indigenous Australians who arrived around 45,000 years ago. Indigenous Australians have distinct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures that include sacred ceremonies, rituals, instruments like didgeridoos and clap sticks. Totems are symbols that acknowledge flora and fauna and are considered sacred symbols passed down through generations. The Dreaming refers to the spiritual relationships between elements of the world established by the Rainbow Serpent in Aboriginal beliefs.
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Original inhabitants of Australia
The original inhabitants of Australia are Indigenous Australians. They arrived in Australian around 45,000 years ago. An indigenous Australian is a person who is a member of the Aboriginal race of Australia. Indigenous Australians Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands and the descendants of these peoples. They are distinguished as either Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders.
Culture Indigenous Australians culture includes sacred ceremonies and rituals. The ceremonial practices reflect on the aspects of the Aborigines life. Some traditional instruments are the didgeridoos, clap sticks and seed rattles. Totems Totems are symbols that acknowledge the flora and fauna. The totems are considered sacred by their owners. Each totem would have previously been owned by their parents ancestors. Totems never changed and are continually passed on to each generation. Totems have existed in traditional Indigenous life since the Dreaming. Dreamtime The Dreaming is a term used by Aboriginals to describe the relations and the balance between the spiritual, natural and moral elements of the world. The words meaning goes beyond any suggestion of spiritual, natural and moral elements of the world. It started with the Rainbow
Serpent moving across the land, creating features of the land and all living things and also set down the laws for social and moral order.
