Indigenous Knowledges

What does the word Aboriginal mean?

• Hunter

• From the beginning

• Gatherer

• Australian

In what year did Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologise to Australia's Indigenous peoples?

• 2007

• 2008

• 2009

• 2019

What does Native Title refer to?

• An ideological memoir on indigenous texts.

• An arbitrary agreement from 1990.

• The name given to a native artefact.

• The right of indigenous peoples to own their traditional lands and waters.

What does January 26 represent to Australia's Indigenous Peoples?

• Australia Day: a celebration of the arrival of the First Fleet to Australia.

• Survival Day: a celebration of the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

• Indigenous Australians have the oldest continuous civilisation on earth, extending back over 65,000 years.

• More than 250 languages and 600 dialects were spoken at the time of colonial invasion in 1788 in over 500 different nations.

• More than half (53 percent) of Aboriginal people are aged under 25 years.

• Indigenous Australians are not disadvantaged.

 What is the dreamtime?

• Indigenous stories told as an understanding of creation
• Bedtime stories passed down through each generation
  
• Dreams that Aboriginals have
  
• Aboriginal art paintings

What are songlines?

• Songlines are only sang by elders
  
• Songlines are a singing done by Aboriginals
  
• Songlines are a spoken map of Indigenous countries
•    Sonlgines are lines that are sung
  

What was the importance of the 1967 referendum?

• before 1967 Indigenous people weren't counted in the census
• before 1967 Indigenous people couldn't vote
• before 1967 Indigenous people owned their land
• before 1967 Indigenous people weren't allowed to have kids

The majority of Aboriginal Australians live in ...

• Rural areas

• Urban areas

What happened to the aborigines when the Europeans arrived?

• Killed by small pox
• Forces off their land because they couldn't prove they owned it
• Their children were taken away from them
• All of the above