The first Australians / Wendy Graham
- Bib ID:
- 4496309
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Graham, Wendy (Wendy Patricia)
- Description:
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- South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan Library, 2009
- 32 p. : ill. (some col.), map, ports. ; 29 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781420265842
- Series:
- Graham, Wendy (Wendy Patricia) We are Australian.
- Summary:
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Introduces the original inhabitants of Australia. Indigenous Australians have lived in this ancient land for thousands of years. Their connection with the land has been passed down through the generations - through their beliefs in the Dreamtime, through storytelling, painting, dancing, songs and ceremony.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- For primary school age.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature
- Australians -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature
- Law - Indigenous
- Settlement and contacts - Dutch
- Social organisation - Elders
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Guugu Yimidhirr / Gugu Yimithirr / Kuku Yimidhirr people (Y82) (Qld SD55-13)
- Wagiman / Wageman people (N27) (NT SD52-12)
- Ceremonies
- Art - Body art
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Ceremonies - Trade and exchange
- Music - Traditional - Ceremonial
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Guugu Yimidhirr / Gugu Yimithirr / Kuku Yimidhirr language (Y82) (Qld SD55-13)
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Food - Sociocultural aspects - Sharing
- Settlement and contacts - Penal colonies / Convicts
- Religion - Dreaming - Ancestor spirits
- Body - Decoration
- History - Oral history
- Cultural protocols - Mourning
- Settlement and contacts - First Fleet, 1788
- Settlement and contacts - English
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Sections and subsections
- Language - Linguistics - Phonology - Pronunciation
- Sites - Sacred sites
- Fishing - Spearfishing
- Botany Bay (S Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Tiwi Islands (NT SC52-15, SC52-16)
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Torres Strait Islands (Qld TSI SC54, SC55-05)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Graham, Wendy (Wendy Patricia)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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