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 SCAVENGER HUNT QUESTIONS

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to travel back in time through the miracle of cyberspace and learn more about the Aborigines. Each question requires your travel to distant sites on the Internet where you will discover clues about the first inhabitants of Aussie. Use these clues to complete your assignment. Votre mission si vous l'acceptez est de remonter le temps et d'en apprendre plus sur les Aborigènes. Utilisez l'espace cybernétique et recherchez sur le web les réponses aux questions ci-contre. Prenez des notes. Attention: vous devrez répondre en anglais et indiquer à chaque fois l'adresse du site sur lequel vous aurez trouvé la réponse. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

1. The Aboriginal Australians reached the Australian continent about 40,000 years ago. Where did they come from?

2. How many aboriginals are there in Australia?

3. Where do they live?

4. What is the traditional way of life of an Aboriginal Australian?

5. How many Aboriginal still try to follow a traditional original way of life outside cities? Where do they live?

6. Which boomerang is used for hunting by the Aboriginal Australians?

7. Which boomerang is only used for sports? What is special about it?

8. What is Aboriginal art mostly about?

9. What is the Aboriginal myth of creation called?

10. What is "Dreamtime"?

11. What is a didjeridu? what is it used for and on what occasions?

12. Which sacred sites and land are still claimed by the Aboriginal Australians?

13. Who designed the Aboriginal flag? What does it look like?

14. How many indigenous Aborigine languages are there?

15. When was the Aboriginal Land Rights Act passed?

16. "The land owns us". explain. 

LIENS LINKS 

Google

Utilisez les liens ci-dessous pour effectuer vos recherches. Vous pouvez aussi utiliser le moteur de recherche de  Google ci-dessus. N'oubliez pas de prendre des notes à chaque fois que vous trouvez quelque chose.

Use these links to discover clues about the Aboriginals of Australia.

Internet Sites

Aboriginal Australia
http://www.aboriginalaustralia.com/culture/home.cfm

http://users.orac.net.au/~mhumphry/aborigin.html

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0805377.html

Myths and legends of the Australian Aborigines

http://www.sacred-texts.com/aus/smalaa.htm

http://www.koori.iisds.com/default.htm

Aborigines and the law

http://www.letasa.asn.au/aborigines.htm

Aboriginal Flag
http://www.ausflag.com.au/flags/ab.html

Aboriginal Studies Virtual WWW Library
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Aboriginal.html.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
http://www.atsic.gov.au.

Australian Aboriginal Writers
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/aborigwr.html 

Aboriginal Australia Links

http://www.dropbears.com/l/links/aboriginal.htm

Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
http://www.antar.org.au/

Barani - a history of Aboriginal people in the Sydney Region

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani/

Bringing them home
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/rsjproject/rsjlibrary/hreoc/stolen/ 

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
http://www.austlii.edu.au/car/index.htm

David Unaipon Award
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/duprize.html

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