What did captain James Cook say about the Aborigines?
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Captain Cook had two encounters with the aborigines. At Kurnell near Sydney, the expedition landed and some natives threw spears at the party while muskets were fired at return.\n\nAt Cooktown where the Endeavour run aground, relations were friendly. The kangaroo was named during this encounter when Cook asked what the animal was called and the natives replied kangaroo which meant I don't know. Cook also met briefly with aboriginals on Bruny Island in 1777.\n\nBased on his limited meeting, Cook developed an incorrect impression that the inland was largely unoccupied. However, the Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia published in 1994, reports that Cooks comments about aboriginals (who he called Indians) were generally complimentary.
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500 years ago would be 1506 AD\n\nconsider \n*who would be paying for the exploration, \n*how he would carry or get money\n*where he would be starting from\n*where he would be going\n*his mode of transport (on foot, by horse, sailing ship etc)\n*his instruments of exploration (compass, star charts etc)\n*food and drink \n*length of voyage (years?) \n*disease and hardships\n*what he would be interested in finding (gold, silver or valuable commodities for trade)\n*what sort of people he would meet\n\nuse your imagination and make it up. \n\nexample\ntuesday 1st may 1506 in the year of our lord\nThe ships are still becalmed off the coast of a wild godforsaken country, many of the crew are sick from a strange disease. I tried to buy fresh water but the natives laughed at my gold coins and we were forced to return to our boats at arrowpoint. I saw many natives wearing pearls as big as hens eggs, but we have nothing to give them in exchange. the king will be very cross if we return empty handed. fish and rum again for lunch, yuk.
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I so agree with you. I don't know if it's because they are geographically placed away from the world (and so close to Asia) that's made them that way or that they need more black migrants and another generation to open their minds up. What's funny is how you'll *never* hear an Australian calling the Aboriginals Native Australians when that should be the actual term. Before any Australian gets defensive again I'd say go travel first.
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this is a statement from a desperate pommy YOU HAVE NO CHANCE\n\nAussie    Aussie   Aussies
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You'll have to clarify your question.  Indigenous peoples have lived in South Africa for hundreds of thousands of years.  Do you mean to ask when Europeans started stealing South African land, enslaving Africans, and using military force to take control of the country?: Do you mean to ask when the first Europeans settled there(1652)?  Or when the British annexed the Cape (1795)?  Or when the Brits seized control over the country through brutal military force (1910 - The Union of South Africa created)? Or when the Boers won control of the country and began the horrors and injustices of apartheid? (1948)?
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This happened when Austrailia was discovered by Britan. They had a big building of people at the time. They then moved all the "prisoners" to Austrailia. So basically the civilization was Britan. \n\nInfact I've visited the first prison. The people that were moved there first made prisons all across "down unders" current day west coast. I learned this by taking the tour in a prison in Fremantle, Western Austrailia.
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Bunji = friend\n----------------\nBunjil\nIn Aborigine mythology (specifically: Kulin and Wurunjerri is the supreme god. The Kulin claims he is a culture-hero and taught them all the important skills in living, but the Wurunjerri claims he created mankind. He now lives in the sky. Binbeal is his son.
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Aboriginal past can be told by living Aboriginals.
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who told you they were gold?
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The communities that the early settlers organized would hardly be called "free".  They conducted in slavery, indentured servitude, witch burnings, genocide, and the settlers were often hungry, sick, and overworked.  A very bleak and pitiful life.  Very few wanted to come here (against popular belief).  This wasn't the "promised" land we imagine it was.  Just like Australia, America was seeded by the sick, criminal, poor, prostitutes, etc.\n\nThe only ones who found freedom were the Religious extremists kicked out of Europe.  And these were the guys burning witches!  The Pilgrims came so they could live a more restricted existence, not be free in the way we think free.\n\nThe reality is that America has never been as free as it has been in the last 50 some years.  Think: abortion, civil rights, medical cannabis, hardcore porn, 10,000 brands to chose from, and soon illegal immigrants will be free.  And before that prohibition.\n\nBut what is freedom?  It is something different for each person.  When Bush talks freedom I think he is talking about capitalism and consumerism.  But when Castro talks freedom he points at free health care, free education, freedom from poverty.\n\nMy sense of it is that when the Islamic World (for example), views our pornography, they can't believe what they are watching.  Among other things they must be total offended and think our society to be totally insane to allow these things.  We call it freedom, they call it depravity.\n\nThere are many things we are not free to do.  We can't use illegal drugs.  Can't drive too fast.  Got to pay your taxes.  Can't be late to work, or for that matter you must go to work.  Pay credit card bills.  Get up when the alarm goes off.  Walk the dog etc.  We are not a free society, but we call ourselves that.\n\nTrue freedom is abstract and hard to understand.  The quote I like is, "Freedom isn't free".
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Take the plunge and find out\nps it's prawns not shrimp\nom the barbeque\n\npps \nit's impossible to avoid sydney
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The Aborigines believe that there it is hollow below ground, and that there is an energy source that they call 'Tjukurpa' the dream time. The term Tjukurpa is also used to refer to the record of all activities of a particular ancestral being from the very beginning of his or her travels to their end. Anangu know that the area around \n\nAyers Rock (Mount Uluru) is inhabited by dozens of ancestral 'beings' whose activities are recorded at many other sites. At each site, the events that took place can be recounted, whether those events were of significance or whether the ancestral being just rested at a certain place before going on. \n\nUsually, there is a physical feature of some form at each ancestral site which represents both the activities of the ancestral being at the time of its formation and the living presence of Tjukurpa within that physical feature today. For the Australian Aboriginal people, that physical feature, whatever its form or appearance, animate or inanimate, is the Tjukurpa. It may be a rock, a sand hill, a grove of trees, a cave. For all of these, the creative essence remains forever within the physical form or appearance. \n\nAround Mount Uluru there are many examples of ancestral sites. The Anangu explanations of these sites and of the formation of Mount Uluru itself derive from the Tjukurpa. Most of these explanations are in the realm of secret information and are not disclosed to Piranypa, the non-Aborigines. \n\n'The Dreaming' is not a creation myth, per se, but a myth of formation. The world existed, but was featureless. Giant semi-human beings, resembling plants or animals, rose up from the plains where they had been slumbering for countless ages. \n\nThese ancient heroes roamed the land aimlessly. As they wandered around, they carried out the tasks that the present Aborigines do today including camping, making fires, digging for water, fighting each other, and performing ceremonies. When the heroes became tired of doing these things, Dreamtime came to an end. \n\nWherever the creators had been active, some form of natural feature now marks the place. The creators made everything with which the aborigines are in daily contact and from which they gain their living. The heroes also established laws that govern all aspects, both secular and sacred, of the tribes. \n\nDreamtime was in the past, but it is the Aborigines present religion and culture. The saying, 'As it was done in the Dreamtime, so it must be done today,' dominates all aspects of aboriginal behavior. Because of their beliefs in 'the dreaming,' ceremonies and rituals are held, stories are told, pictures are drawn, and daily life is defined. \n\nIn order to understand the religion of the Aborigines, one must have a basic understanding of the organization of the tribes. All men and women belong to small groups, called clans. Each clan posses a distinct body of spiritual properties, or sacred sites. \n\nA clan may have several sacred sites that they claim, and the area surrounded by the connection of these sites forms the clan's estate. Clans are linked by common religious traditions, intermarriage, shared dialects, and overlapping foraging rights. \n\n\n \nStone monument made by the heroic ancestors\n\n\n \nClans people of the crow believe they are descended from \nthe Dreamtime's crow spirit who became a man.\n\nEach clan has a totem. 'Totemism is a view of nature and life, of the universe and man, which colors and influences the Aborigines' social groupings and mythologies, inspires their rituals and links them to the past. It unites them with nature's activities and species in a bond of mutual life-giving, and imparts confidence amidst the vicissitudes of life'. The totem provides a tangible expression of a man's relationship to his deities. Everything in the Aboriginal world contains an essence or spirit that had its beginnings in the Dreamtime. Each person descended fr
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Very interesting question that I wish I had an answer for. I was always wondering the opposite sort of speak. How did the Anglo  survive in those caves up in the mountains in the earlier days? I mean they show all of this history on TV with the African man and the early stages of the white man. I'm just glad they discovered how to start a fire so that they could stay warm and could cook their food. I mean could you imagine eating raw meat 24-7?
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100% Pies best and fairest got it spot on what a weak act, obviously off his face so was refused service then lied about racial taunts, didnt see any aboriginals acting the way he did so why was he offended more than them, find something more substantial to hide behind brendan, weak weak weak!!!\n\nDaffy pretends to know about football but all of her comments in this section are pure rubbish, start paying attention to the game and then come back and comment you obviously have nothing to offer at the moment\noh yeah pbf, good point when has brendan ever displayed any physicality and courage on the field i watch a lot of football and cant recall any, mabye thats because footballers are the same size as him.
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boongas as we like to call them\ni'm tasmanian and when we settled on this isle we killed them all\nthe only successful genocide in history\nthe way they act and carry on these days i dont blame them\nevery culture has taken land from another in the last 100,000 years so who are to judge
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Lincoln put it best when he said, "Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth." Also the magnificent words of Thomas Jefferson. "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That amongst these are Life., Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  "  Hard to improve on the words of these two statesmen when speaking of America's values.
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Im Australian can you please explain that in English.