Geography 6

Australias original people

• Aborigines

• Oral traditions

• Polynesians

What is an inhabitant?

Who are the Aborigine?

Oral Tradition

• person who lives in a place

• Groups living in eastern melanesian islands

• Communities cultural and historical background, passes down in spoken stories and songs

Maori

• Original inhabitants of new Zealand

• live in eastern Melanesian

• who live in a place

What is maori?

What is marae?

• Enclosed area of land that functions as the center of maori culture

• inhabitans of new zeland

• interest in the region