ALBUM: cdbaby.com | ARTIST www.reverbnation.com | FREE SCHOOL RESOURCE DOCUMENT (value $200): ishare.sphorium.com | further links and information at the Reverbnation and CD Baby links. _____________________________________ EXTRACT FROM WHEN THE SKY FELL DOWN Formerly known as 1788 The Great South Land ________________________ Introduction Our tale begins at opposite ends of the Earth and tells of encounters between two vastly different cultures. These events shaped the history of Australia as we know it. 1788 was a time of dispossession and change. Aboriginal and European people were forced together in the midst of cruelty and destruction never known in this land. We will journey from the very first encounters, through desperate times of disease and starvation, to the important first communication and an undeclared war. We explore decisions which resulted in long periods of injustice. The struggle to survive these times of immense change for our ancestors is expressed here. As we share their hopes and fears, we face the challenges of our own times and our new beginnings in this, our Great South Land. 1. Time of Change HISTORICAL BACKGROUND and context: Aboriginal spirituality had ways to explain everything. In the years following Captain Cook’s visit, stories spread along the east coast of Australia. This song is based on a story that the sky was collapsing from the east. The story came from the Yarra region around Melbourne. 2. The Waterway Reflects the harmonious land …
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1. A Time of Change
Jock Mosquito Interview
Brought to you by www.aboriginalartshop.com Interview with world famous Australian Aboriginal Artist Churchill Cann atArtlandish Aboriginal Art Gallery* in Kununurra, the gateway to the Kimberley, in Western Australia. You can find more information, videos, images and artworks at http *Formerly known as Our Land Art Gallery and on the web as Aboriginal Art Shop.com
Lemuria: The Hidden History of Mankind’s Motherland [5/21]
Original documentary by myself with commentary from Col. James Churchward Tells the story of mankind’s Motherland: Mu, how she was the source of all the major world’s religions, and after she sank the various peoples of her continent scattered throughout the world to form groups such as the Nagas in India, and the Maya in Mexico, the Maori in New Zealand, Aborigine in Australia, etc. Also tells how the religion of Mu was corrupted over the years and became what we now see as the major world religions. www.alchemymeditations.com
didgeridoo E honey ant
Nice lite eucalyptus bloodwood didgeridoo E. This didge is painted with honey ants on it. This is a delicatesse in Aboriginal culture. Option for this didge has been given to my friend Zuwarah
Australia is a ‘Nazi’s wet dream’ – Robbie Thorpe’s Welcome to Country
Intervention update: Compulsory land acquisitions in the Northern Territory to start from August ’09. Robbie Thorpe – Gunai/Kurnai Elder – 29 July 2009, at the ALP headquarters, Melbourne, Victoria. Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has announced that the Commonwealth Government of Australia is going to compulsorily acquire Aboriginal Community Town Camps in the Northern Territory. This will start happening from early August 2009. The main focus has been on the Tangentyere Council which is based in Alice Springs. Tangentyere provides services to the 1600 people from most Central Australian tribal groups living on the 18 town camps around the town. Over the years the council has been a spearhead for the establishment of other organisations as the need arose, such as Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (medical services), Central Australian Aboriginal Alcohol Planning Unit (alcohol rehabilitation), Institute for Aboriginal Development (educational institution), Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, Yipirinye School (independent Aboriginal school), outstation resource centres and so on. The NT Intervention took out compulsory 5-year leases over the town camps serviced by Tangentyere, along with outstations and other remote communities. The government said it needed powers to build housing quickly but not a single house has been built for Aboriginal people through the Intervention. Communities across the NT have been told that no housing will be built …