Wish to learn aboriginal culture (25)

There was and still is plenty of injustice committed as was sure to happen when a stone age culture came into contact with early industrialised cultures. But that has also happened against lesser industrialised cultures everywhere outside of the rapidly advancing Western European World. In fact the hunger for resources including cheap labour had Western Europe at war within itself constantly from early indutrialisation. Those continents where resources were easier to access such as North America and Australia faired much better in gaining their wealth and subsequent excess. Some of that excess has been used to answer injustices to the aboriginal owners.

I don't say original aboriginal owners because the lands changed hands constantly before and after European arrival. Just as they did in the Americas, Asia and Europe. Romantisising this fact down to a single living person being able to trace their ownership back 40 millenia is simplistic and patronizing.

The fact is that none of us "own" our own land. We are only there until someone stronger or more technically powerful defeats us and drives us off. And so it has been since the first hominid found that his neighbour had more game on his land.

The stories of tragedy in themselves are not Australian Aboriginal Culture. Aboriginal Culture is also the Murray didgeridoo, the Koori bull roarer, song and dance, bush tucker and medicine, the recording of history by painting on prominent rocks, the making of fish traps with rocks in the Koori lands. Culture is the succcess of art, communication and overcoming life challenges and the telling of that success.