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Aboriginal Spirituality (1 Viewer)
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The next key event was Native Title which was consolidated through the Native Title Act 1993. This gave Indigenous Australians the ability to claim land rights over traditional areas which their kinship group/they themselves owned/occupied in the past e.g. Cape York Peninsula. This gave further acknowledgement to Indigenous Australians as the first owners of Australia’s land.Libby01P said:
The Land Rights movement is essential for contemporary Aboriginal spiritualities as it clarifies and more importantly, acknowledges the inextricable bond between the Indigenous peoples and their land. The land is central within their lives physically, economically, socially and ultimately, in a spiritual sense. If the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders are dispossessed from their land they destroy a core facet of their spiritual existence – the obligations to the land as expressed in the Dreaming. The land is the physical medium through which all beings dwell, alive or dead. Native title and land rights are opening Aborigines back up to the land which is rightfully theirs. In this respect it is also reconnecting spiritual links with ancestral spirit beings originating from the Dreamtime. The relationship between the land and people is one of mutual interdependence. The preservation, nurture, care and maintenance of the land is a timeless cycle for Indigenous Australians. Their ritual estate lies at the core of their being. Granting land rights (and native title) ensures this spiritually foundational bond to the land is passed on to future generations and that in turn; the Dreaming can remain universal and immortal for Aborigines.