"Aboriginal people did eat the odd one or two” 😮🐚 | Bush Tucker Man | Shorts | ABC Australia

"Aboriginal people did eat the odd one or two of these.” 😮🐚
Today shell middens are protected sites under the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Act 2003. Walking on or scaling up these sites damages important cultural artifacts.
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[@datwistyman]

Love bush tucker man, it was my favourite show ❤

[@JoshuaTovo]

Me too for long time since 1990,and I've met him in real person in Magnetic Island (Townsville,Qld) in 1991 👌🏽

[@thatpanamahatlife1497]

Love The Bush Tucker Man! And the hat!!!! 🙂

[@byza101]

Les is the example of the Australia we need to strive for. In touch with our indigenous peopl, in touch with the land. His relationships with the people of the top end is the Australia we need to strive for, not all this division and sorrow

[@eggnugget575]

👍👍

[@rizzrizz4841]

I have a few mates like Les and they are my best mates too. Nothing stopping non Aboriginal people coming and learning about Aboriginal culture and vice versa. ✌🏾

[@cuckywucky]

I'm very grateful I grew up around so many wonderful Aboriginal teachers in school, at primary school we would have a whole week of learning Aboriginal history (we still ofc learnt a lot just in our curriculum, this was more of learning what their culture was like)

[@wassupmydudes8320]

I heard this dude fought an emu AND WON!!!

[@tedstrong3990]

That is absolutely incredible

[@gcvc5311]

Classic Aussie understatement. Les really is a legend. He's from a time when the ABC was relevant to ALL Australians.

[@stephenmani8495]

It isn't now? Why? I wasn't aware it had changed. (I live in the UK).

[@stevenlohel984]

The man, the legend, THE BUSH TUCKER MAN!!

[@reconnaissance7372]

There's something fascinatingly beautiful about this.

[@aviaskies2919]

We respect our elders

[@leeloo4121]

We should

[@southernmike3265]

Why

[@lowmorkn2192]

Cameraman was impeccable

[@tonimarx6405]

Not from what I've seen.

[@AussieAdventures23]

Wow, that’s amazing!

[@Will-nb8qk]

Aboriginal peoples certainly have a long history on this land.

[@edplaysdrums8435]

Pretty amazing, would have been extremely hard conditions the aboriginals were surviving in. They did testing on the mounds and found that by dating the shells each mound was the result of harvesting enough meat for around 18 people to survive. There were split wallaby teeth discovered in the mounds too which are assumed to be a primitive tool.

[@jamespayne9217]

Protect them at all cost!

[@infernalstan886]

Would such shells last thousands of years out in the open like that tho? It makes me suspect the Aborigine population was much higher than we think

[@aliceclayton1914]

No they would not, and the aborigines were nomadic, this shells are more likely to have been washed up in a cyclone or some sort of major weather event.

[@MrAboriginal2You]

We're everywhere now 🌎

[@davidbailey277]

I see they never recycles!

[@dariusmagby31]

It used to be for building purposes. Like the coquinha of florida.

[@theworkshopmechanicchannel3296]

There’d be millions of them

[@vk88864]

And white Australia said they saved us. That we wouldn’t have survived without them. I remind them our culture and people survived thousands and thousands of years without white interference and quite successfully.

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

I loved this show when growing up. It was before the Crocodile Hunter, who most Aussies hated... until he made it big in the US.

[@leeloo4121]

What is the reason for collect these shells for 1000 and 1000 of years? I don’t believe it’s just waste after eat gathering. I would like to know more about the culture background.

[@coleyperrett1616]

He was an actual major studying all the types of native foods way before chefs started to use them in fact he would of helped the whole introduction to the amazing array of foods growing wild

[@thomascollard765]

Loved watching les when i was young bloke. He had so much knowledge of Australian bush and country. Not like crap they got on tv these days

[@JoshuaTovo]

I'm one of his big fans since 1990..he's a former Aussie Military Officer,his knowledge and Aborigines elders helps him further 👌🏽absolutely staggering as he says 👊🏽😂

[@lucylovic]

Pippies. Lived on them for 3 days. Stradbroke Island. 😅😅😅

[@jakemurphy8601]

Minjerribah ☺️

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

damn 500

[@Jackorino]

I heard when Chuck Norris was a boy, He wanted to grow up and be The Bush Tucker Man

[@maryjanelinao1900]

The soup of that shell is yummy..good for breastfeeding moms.

[@southernmike3265]

So a dump site is an extra special ancient ancestral heritage site....

[@Dragonball0017]

Coloniser standing where our ancestors stood

[@Star-rk6wo]

Ig Thea liked Them😊

[@eelamite]

they had it all figured out. people tried to ruin something perfect they had going

[@aliceclayton1914]

Unfortunately he’s incorrect,

[@gingerbread7113]

Another wyatt man trying to explain someone's else's history gets me everytime😂😂😂

[@rizzrizz4841]

Maybe coz he lived with Aboriginal people and learnt from them to tell the story.

[@jessicahart2115]

​@@rizzrizz4841agree..100%

[@dozermc5220]

You're right we should just lose this knowledge to history instead. While we're at it, we should probably just stop teaching people about history and other cultures all together. What a great idea. I mean who are we to teach our kids about the Roman Empire or Ancient Egypt. We have absolutely no right to do so! I can't believe our gaul as a society lol.

[@SanctusPaulus1962]

What does his skin colour have to do with his ability to explain history? If white people aren't allowed to discuss aboriginal history, then does that mean aboriginals aren't allowed to discuss European history - which includes the European settlement of Australia? Are you going to chastise aboriginals next for criticising British colonialism, because they aren't white? Or is it a "rule for thee, but not for me" kind of situation?

[@deVisserFamily]

The point of history is to learn about things besides ourselves. Thinking of history as belonging only to those who experience it is rather egocentric.