Terms
Dreaming
Country
Identity
Legislation
Guess who
100
The spiritual beliefs, laws and stories that explain the creation of the world and guide Aboriginal life.
What is the Dreaming?
100
Dreaming stories explain how this was created.
What is the land, people and natural world?
100
This responsibility requires Aboriginal people to protect and care for Country.
What is custodianship?
100
Family, Country and this all contribute to Aboriginal identity.
What is culture?
100
This 1868 agreement recognised the Lakota Sioux's ownership of the Black Hills.
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868).
100
MATHS Teacher with Glasses and usually wars T- shirts
MR Kuru
200
The Aboriginal English word used to describe the traditional lands to which a person or group belongs.
What is Country?
200
Dreaming stories continue to influence Aboriginal life because they provide these.
What are laws, values and responsibilities?
200
List 3 things Country includes.
What are people, ancestors and spiritual connections?
200
The legal recognition that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have rights to land under Australian law.
What is Native Title?
200
Name this landmark and explain why it is controversial.
What is Mt Rushmore
200
CAPA teacher with black hair and black clothing
Ms Ramalie
300
Explain why oral traditions are essential for maintaining Aboriginal cultures.
What is: They preserve history, laws, values and cultural identity across generations while strengthening connections to Country and community.
300
This Dreaming story involves a frogs who hold all the world's water until the other animals make him laugh.
What is the Tiddalik Dreaming?
300
They 'develop' land, as if it was unfinished or raw.
What is European perspective of Country
300
Explain one way community strengthens Aboriginal identity
What is: Community provides belonging, cultural knowledge, support and opportunities to participate in cultural practices.
300
These laws controlled where many Aboriginal people could live, work and whom they could marry.
What are the Aboriginal Protection Acts?
300
Blonde Curly hair and glasses and likes running
Ms Riley
400
This event celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures every July. Name the theme for 2026.
What is NAIDOC Week? 50 years Deadly
400
This Dreaming story explains that kindness and helping others can be rewarded.
What is How the Birds Got Their Colours?
400
Explain why connection to Country is central to Aboriginal identity.
What is: Country provides spiritual identity, cultural knowledge, belonging and responsibilities.
400
Language is important because it helps preserve this.
What is cultural identity?
400
Explain one impact of the Aboriginal Protection Acts.
What is: They restricted freedom, separated families, controlled daily life and contributed to cultural loss.
400
Short hair and really likes basketball
Ms Reed
500
Anyone who judges people or traditions based on his own cultural standards is guilty of...
Ethnocentrism
500
Retell the main events of the Rainbow Serpent Dreaming, including how the landscape was created and the lesson it teaches.
What is: The Rainbow Serpent travelled across the land, creating rivers, mountains and waterholes. It punished those who broke the law and rewarded those who respected Country, teaching that people must care for the land and follow cultural laws.
500
Analyse one impact of being removed from Country.
What is: It disrupted cultural practices, identity, family connections and the transmission of knowledge across generations.
500
Analyse why Aboriginal identity may differ between individuals and communities.
What is: Identity is shaped by family history, Country, language, community, personal experiences and the impacts of colonisation.
500
Forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans and outline 2 impacts of this legislation.
The Indian Removal Act - 1830
500
This Aboriginal athlete became Australian of the Year after a successful AFL career.
Who is Adam Goodes?