ISBN |
9781921580260 |
Name |
Cox, Karin |
Title |
First Australians : the story of Indigenous Australia Karin Cox. |
Description |
48 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 29 cm. |
Series |
Young Reed |
Notes |
Includes bibliographic references and index. |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The First Australians -- Culture on context -- Adapting to changing times -- An oral tradition -- Spiritually & Dreaming -- Ancient artworks -- Shelter & Dwellings -- Dress & adornment -- Art of the Body -- Corroborees -- Bush Tucker -- Traditional Medicine -- Tools & Hunting -- Gathering & Trapping -- Dilly bags, baskets & coolamons -- Trading between tribes -- Making fire -- Fun & relaxation -- Pregnancy & birth -- Initiation & marriage -- Death & burial -- Tribal law -- The European invasion -- Man or marvel? -- Fighting for country -- Racist massacres -- The lost tribes -- Missions & protectors -- Equality for Aborigines -- Land rights -- The stolen Generation -- Aboriginal activists -- Reconciliation -- Quiz -- Glossary -- Want to know more -- Index. |
Summary |
Before European settlement, about 700 Aboriginal nations - each of which had their own Dreaming songs, laws, customs and beliefs and spoke one of 250 or so languages - existed in Australia by the time Europeans began to explore this continent in the 1600s. First Australians is a comprehensive book for primary school audiences about Aboriginal life and customs. Indigenous people had inhabited Australia for at least 40 000 years, if not longer, which makes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures the oldest continuing human cultures on the earth. Find out what kind of houses they built, the food they ate, the clothes they wore as well as how they adapted to life after the British colony arrived in 1788. |
Target audience note |
For primary school age. |
Subjects |
Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature |
Aboriginal Australians -- History -- Juvenile literature |
Aboriginal peoples -- History |
Australians -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature |
Aboriginal Australians -- History -- Juvenile literature |
Aboriginal Australians History. |
Australians -- Social life and customs |
Aboriginal Australians -- History -- Juvenile literature |
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature |
Aboriginal Australians |
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs |
Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature |
Aboriginal Australians -- History -- Juvenile literature |
Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature |
Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature |
Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature |
Australia |
Genre |
History |
Juvenile works |
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