Indigenous people in australia
Their diet
was perfectly healthy, they got all the minerals and vitamins, we get from our food today.
They were very clever at catching turtles.
They also had an incredible knowledge about Australian plants that are often poisonous, and
what they couldn't eat they turned into bush medicine. [gondwananet]
Famous Indigenous Australians
Freeman, Cathy Olympic athlete
Monks, Rosie Kunoth Film star, nun, social worker
Page, Stephen Dancer, choreographer
Yunupingu, Mandaway Musician, teacher, activist
Saunders, Captain Reginald First Indigenous commissioned army officer [faithinterface]
Interesting facts:
· When a mother gives birth to her baby, the father is not allowed to be there.
· In some tribes, the father asks a "message stick" for the sex of the baby. If the stick is
long, it is a boy and if it is short, it is a girl.
· A baby does not get its name until it is one year old. Before the naming the Aborigines