Cultural site for the Aboriginal clans and its people

Aboriginal Culture
A cultural site for the Aboriginal descendants
Table of Contents
A cultural site for the Aboriginal descendants................................................................................1
A brief history of the Aboriginal people......................................................................................1
Aborigine culture.........................................................................................................................1
The cultural center.......................................................................................................................2
Proposed designing of the cultural site........................................................................................2
Specification of role of each section of the design...................................................................3
List of reference...............................................................................................................................4
Introduction
A brief history of the Aboriginal people
To construct a culture site for the Aboriginal clans and its people, it is important that we
understand their past history and experiences, knowing this all inclusive cultural site can be
raised. The Aboriginal people also known as the first Australian occupants who had lived at
Australia for over 55,000 years and are divided up to more than 250 distinct dialectal groups. As
depicted from history archives, till 1788, the Aboriginal communities were living in peace and in
harmony. The arrival of the British colonialist in their lands was end of their flourishing era;
their bodies could not sustain the diseases that the British arrived with. The combination of
diseases and epidemics emaciated the island’s native people. At the time of the British arrival,
they existed between 750,000 and 1,250,000 Aboriginal people lived at the Australian islands.
However, during the colonial period at least 20,000 Aboriginal people lost their lives (Palmer,
2019). This was happening mutually in selected parts of the world including the aboriginal lands
(Browne-Yung & Gallaher, 2016). The problem with the aboriginal people was that their bodies
were too weak to sustain the small pox and the syphilis diseases from the white settlers, maiming
many lives which according to Captain Philip of the British Government then, Aboriginal people
were wailing and dying slowly at the sea shores (Marsh & Green, 2019). Their simple life of
living primarily along the foreshores of the harbor fishing and hunting in the neighborhood had
met a saddening end. The natives were forced into reserves, denied their rights which included
basic freedom; the Aboriginal people were not allowed to vote, move and express their needs.
The government introduced an assimilation policy which ensured that the Aboriginal family built
up was completely shattered; further their children were not allowed to be named basing on
family designations and were changed regularly. All this began with the advent of Lt James
Cook in 1770, who arrived with fortified skirmish and a lack of empathy, which was prefigured
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the decease of the northern Sydney clans and the Dharawal to the south and the Dharug to the
west (Stocker & Rooney, 2016).
Aborigine culture
The Aborigine culture was simple and was totally based on entire kinship with the natural
environment. The harvesting of the fruits and food which included hunting of edible animals was
done with consideration to balance to the environment (Payne, 2018). Resources were adequate,
life was good. For all that time, since time immemorial the Aborigine people were living the
same standard of life, thereby acquiring enough experience and knowledge to hunt and gather
food without been detrimental to the environments. They believed that Baiami gave them their
land and that they had the sacred duty and responsibility to guide it with affiliation through their
amulet system (Graham & Cowie, 2019).
Use of totems
According to the Aboriginal culture Totems are thought to be the progenies of the Dreamtime
heroes or totemic lives which travelled across their ancestral lands performing heroic and
spectacular acts, each clan had their own totem that through kinfolk belonging to the group were
accountable for their totem (Graham & Cowie, 2019).
The cultural center
A cultural center is beneficial to the remaining people of the Aboriginal people. It will act as a
museum and a center for historical source. According to Council’s Aboriginal Engagement
Officer 2012, there is a need to develop cultural center for the Aboriginal people which was
formed by internal committee called the Indigenous Action Group in December at the 2011
conference, which primarily consisted of the Aboriginal elders, renowned tradition guides,
Towns Mayors, elders and Aboriginal leaders. They discussed to set up a center which would
then function as a globule in center, an advocacy center, an art space, a center to entice tourists, a
tourist gift/artifact shop, a café outlet and more important would serve as a center for the
homeless people (Oliver & Exell, 2020).
Reasons and benefits for the construction of the cultural center
 It would serve as an ICC role in the central locality such as Kings Square.
 Point of involving many people with common interest in the same place, for instance
while visiting the place the young and the old will network.
 It would provide an ample linking with the Maritime Museum expositions
 It will act as symbol for reconciliation, as depicted above in the history of the aboriginal
people, they were oppressed, denied their rights and freedom, killed and tortured,
frustrated and worst they lost their valuables to the British colonialist. As result, the
cohort and the descendants of the Aboriginal people were resentful and bitter towards the
government. The cultural site will serve as reconciliation socket to the people of the
Aboriginal origin (Gibberd & Eades, 2018).
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