Indigenous Burial Practices

Organize these options into the right categories- Indigenous and White Settlers

Groups:

(a) Indigenous

,

(b) white settlers

• Pioneer

• Colonizer

• Dreaming

• Settlement

• Wandjina

• Gwion Gwion

• Homestead

• Frontiersman

• cattle

• corroboree

• Rock art

• farming

• Boomerang

• Immigrant

• Didgeridoo

The rituals and ceremonies of First Nations peoples around funerals and ​ (a)   business have been practised for ​ (b)   of years and continue in the modern age. Sorry business is the term used by Aboriginal peoples to describe the period of cultural practices that take place after ​ (c)   .

• sorry
• thousands
• First Nations
• somebody dies
• somebody sleeps

Sorry business has been practiced for

• 1000 of years

• 2000 years

• 24000 years

Sorry business is

• Practice used after someone dies

• Is used to sprinkle on the deceased

• Cremation and burial

First Nations peoples have honoured and disposed of their dead in various ways, depending on where they lived across the continent. The two main forms were ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   . Sometimes people were buried with ​ (c)   , such as personal items, ​ (d)   or tools

• burial
• sleeping
• cremation
• possessions
• weapons
• paintings

In some instances, special clothing and ​ (a)   have been found with the deceased, and in others, ochre is sprinkled on the ​ (b)   . Mungo Man and Mungo Lady were ​ (c)   , and then ​ (d)   with funerary goods and marked with ​ (e)  

• cremated
• buried
• ochre
• ornaments
• body

Hollow log coffins also called ​ (a)   ,

are ​ (b)   decorated with elaborate ​ (c)   These are a traditional burial

practice of the Yolngu and Bininj peoples of ​ (d)   in the Northern Territory.

The hollowed logs are the final resting place of the bones of the deceased, following a

period of mourning

• burial poles
• hollow tree trunks
• designs.
• Arnhem Land

Indigenous used two methods for the dying

• hollow trunks

• cremation

• burial

Hollow trunks are called

• burial poles

• tree stems

• dreaming

Historically, Indigenous funeral practices are connected to ​ (a)   and traditions, with rituals often reflecting a deep connection to the land and the ​ (b)   . However, with the impact of ​ (c)   and the introduction of new religious beliefs, some aspects of ​ (d)   underwent ​ (e)  

• colonization
• burial practices
• significant change
• cultural beliefs
• spiritual realm