Rob Reacts to... How Aboriginal Australians Made Australia

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[@grandmothergoose]

How they communicated becomes obvious the first time you've gotten yourself lost and encounter an Aboriginal elder and ask for directions. They'll grab a stick and draw you a map in the dirt, show you where you are, where you want to be, and what route to take to get there. They'll use body language, gestures, hand signals, etc. They'll explain what they can in whatever words they know of your language. If all that doesn't work, they'll take the time to walk with you and show you the way. It's worth noting that the areas on the maps weren't merely tribal areas. They were Aboriginal nations. Often multiple groups lived in one nation, sharing common language, culture, and laws, just like our nations do today. Their neighbouring nation's language would be different, but have some similarities, just enough for some basic communication. Also, most people spoke not just their own nation's language but at least some of the languages of their neighbouring nations as well. Those neighbours likewise would have similarities of different types in language and culture to their other neighbours, and so on. It was uncommon for one Aboriginal group to travel across multiple nations without a very good reason, most of the time information and trades were passed like a relay from one border to the next. The other aspect of their culture that set them apart from most others in the world was that they were very strict on story telling (which included songs). Children would grow up not just hearing the songs and stories, but learning them, and retelling them in front of their elders to make sure they got it right. Information was required to be retold as accurately as possible. It was unacceptable and shameful to add a flourish to a story for the sake of making it more interesting. Thus, stories, songs, and information in general was passed down through generations, and passed from group to group, nation to nation, without the rapidly changing "Chinese whispers" phenomenon that other cultures suffer from. This has been spoiled since colonisation destroyed far too much of their, well, everything, and imposed our own ideals and culture upon them, so things aren't so straightforward anymore. The original Aboriginal peoples of over 200 years ago were perceived as primitive, uncivilised, and unintelligent by the British because they didn't do things the same way the British did, but the British couldn't have been more wrong about them. The Aboriginal people of over 200 years ago were very civilised, advanced, and intelligent, they just did everything in very different ways to what the British were used to seeing. Ways that the British powers-that-be of the time wanted to dominate and destroy rather than try to learn from. Aboriginal people had control of the land, they had control of the waters, they had agriculture, they had frighteningly accurate historical records (they had/have stories about geological changes to their area that dated back tens of thousands of years that modern geologists are only now starting to realise are indeed true), they had complex languages and communication systems with not just other Aboriginal people but also with animals. The things they didn't invent, they simply didn't need. We could have learned so much from them, but sadly, most of it was destroyed.

[@jamied8678]

That's a long response I don't think anyone's going to read that. they lived in the only territory they knew their own area the way you would know your suburb unless they were going to a corroboree and they would still know the way because they been doing it for a hundred-thousand years . Would of light to a same what you had to say but it was just far long beeing succinct is much better

[@onytay-]

@@jamied8678 I read the whole thing lol, it was a good read

[@cosmos278]

I read every word too. Those that want to know will take the time. Agree with everything you said. I had great hopes that this country might finally FINALLY see the truth of Aboriginal Australia and work together with Mob to re-awaken Indigenous Knowledges. But we are in the end stupid narrow minded consumers who will regret their mistakes.

[@robertdixon9531]

Some knowledge and wisdom has been lost I agree but as an Aboriginal man of Australia I can't let my culture die...

[@robertronan227]

I am an Indigenous Australian😊mate thank you for your research and positive outlook on our old people. Their is far too many negatives about us nowadays and it is such a breath of fresh air too hear otherwise outside of our own peoples knowledge and stories orally passed down...top bloke well done👍✌️

[@SalisburyKarateClub]

One fun fact, we have species of trees where the seed doesn't germinate without fire.

[@patrussell8917]

It is the smoke from bush fires that causes germination

[@robertmurray8763]

Some Australians native plants do need fire 🔥 heat to melt the resins that bind the seeds together.and smoke helps with germination.

[@TCM215]

Yet we are being sold the lie that our fires are from climate change

[@louislynge]

Tribal Lore is a Matristic / Migration Lore. This is done through songlines. SONG is sung at all times, from the morning (saying gday to all the animals you see). Walking through the bush was never a quiet thing (unless hunting). Each year every tribe follows the migration of the animals, this is when different mobs would encounter eachother and meet in specific places at certain times to have ceremony of the migration. There are songs for every rock, tree etc. I have heard stories of songs that encourage nearby dolphins to round up a school of fish and bring them to shore. The people would then easily catch the fish and share it with the dolphins, creating symbiosis. The Original people of Australia had a connection to the land and animals that we can NOT imagine! There is a reason that paintings of animals seem like x-rays ;)

[@lloydwegener3956]

I didn't, finish my last reply I bumped the send icon Please take your video down you are spreading this nonsense denigrating the Europeans who settled this country . We dragged these stone age hunter gatherers out of the stone age into the present . If the aboriginals think their previous life was so good let them discard everything the 19th 20th and 21st century has provided . Eg free medical,hospitals every thing for everyday life cars free air flights for emergency health care, electricity, mobile phones ,and a hundred other things for a comfortable life with out having to work a single hour . Check the truth not this rubbish you spread

[@siryogiwan]

same was done with pelicans

[@elizabethjane6505]

Thank you, I love my culture 🖤💛❤️, in Aboriginal culture and in many different Aboriginal countries, especially where I come from whadjuk country, I am a noongar ballardong women, and we believe that we are connected to the land, animals, sky and sea. Everything has spirit, a meaning and a connection to our spirit and that is what makes us who we are, and where we come from and all our ancestors and connects us to everything, down to the smell of the dirt that we stand on. We are always deeply connected to our own country, and we we have to pay our respects whenever entering another country that we do not know the land of, so then we learn that countries land and pass the knowledge on. However from the stolen generation so many languages and knowledge hasn't been passed down and many many have been lost, and I mourn for my ancestors, the future and the next generation hoping that we can pass on some of what knowledge we have left. And it is upsetting because many Aboriginal languages are now been lost for many years, and those who are elders in many different countries and spoke different languages, cannot pass down language because it had not been passed down to them because of the stolen generation, or passings of the last elder/ancestor who spoke Thier language. Aboriginal people my people without our language, we are missing a piece of ourselves which I cannot explain or express, because I cannot comprehend. How many languages have been lost, how many mobs were destroyed, and teachings extinct, and now never known. P.s what I mean by countries is all the different Aboriginal territories/ what we call countries in Australia because there were over hundreds of countries and languages spoken. Sorry if you can't understand what I said. I tried my best :)

[@susanburns276]

My best mate is a first nation's people and it still amazes me that they could survive in the bush by knowing what to eat etc, I'm soon learning fabric painting with an indigenous elder teaching how to make the paint with natural ingredients! How sustainable? Been around before the climate was damaged as well!👍

[@kerriemills1310]

That sounds like it will be an amazing fun experience to learn along side an indigenous elder making the paints, make sure to enjoy it.

[@sueaddison9958]

60.000 years of knowing the land is a wonderfully long time to learn how to look after it. And they never spoiled their land with building huge /permanent structures🙂 they are an amazing culture. I only wish that all we Aussies had lessons in school to teach us about our land. My first ancestors here were sent against their will but me being an eighth generation Aussie, I couldn't love this land more and am grateful that my family survived to get us to here and now. Cheers for your channel🤗🌏🪐🍀🌕🙏🦋🌺💮👣🦉🏡🌴❤️❤️❤️

[@jcampbellshale]

This video barely cuts the surface of aboriginal knowledge of the land but it is a good place to start. If you read the observations of early British explorers like John Eyre, you. Will see it was well documented. Unfortunately the powers to be at the time chose to ignore the advice of the explorers

[@brendonrookes1151]

haha or modern day leftist are trying to take credit for shit europeans did

[@siryogiwan]

I remember watching The Bush Tucker Man referring to a diary of an explorer (maybe Lawson, can't recall exactly who), documenting the correct use of fire, but was ignored until the 90s, extremely sad they documented it, then got ignored, for so many things; I'm fortunate to have a pioneering family, that got along with and learnt from the mob, I learned things most people didn't as a result and ended up working restoring areas around Sydney and learning about tradition practises

[@briangill4000]

Rob, there is a fabulous doco called First Footprints. It is well worth a look and maybe a review. As for the settlers (government) not wanting to believe that Aboriginal people had a society and agriculture.. It was imperative that they didn't. The land was claimed by the crown under a law that stated.. If a land had people, but they had no organized society then the land could be claimed under "Terra nullius". It was crucial that they continued to push the idea that the people of Australia no law or system of government and especially not agriculture. It is sad to think that a huge part of indigenous knowledge was probably lost in the first decade of occupation of each area of Australia. The elders would have been the first to die of introduced diseases and having a mostly oral history and teaching much would have been lost before it could be passed on. Shame on us.

[@jamied8678]

It was the passcode person who wrote the book about Aboriginals being farmers now he was discredited so why are you still going on with this bullshit. They were nomadic travellers which is why when the British turned up and they saw empty land they assumed there was no one here they didn't realise that the Aborigines moved around and would be back there in 6 months time nothing to do with farming whatsoever .that is a myth buy white Aboriginal people because they don't want to be associated with stone Age people although they're happy to take the benefits from them

[@louislynge]

P.s. For a "stone age culture" Original People of the Mullumbimby area built the OLDEST STONE HENGE in the world! at least 10x older than the English Stone henge.

[@charki40]

Absolutely correct. Am a former Aust Archeologist with many collogues doing this recording of history.

[@louislynge]

@@charki40 It's out of Australia not Africa

[@charki40]

@@louislynge Duh, Im Australian. Yes thats what I was saying. But thankyou for supporting my comment.

[@jamied8678]

Yes will shifting a few rocks around certainly isn't farming

[@jamied8678]

@@louislynge I believe the Aborigines have been here all along and so do they .

[@johntepu1869]

Kia kaha, kia maia kia manawanui to all our aboriginal brothers and sisters in Australia from Aotearoa New Zealand. We (Maori) we’re also labeled as “ONLY” hunters/gatherers by early settlers. However NZ has a subtropical climate which requires a slightly different strategy to replenish stocks. What a great reaction by the way and, the words you’re looking for are “spiritual caretaker connection” to the land and NOT ownership. Although early explorers and Botanists noted gardens and Kūmara (sweet potato) storage pits used during the winter months. Early settlers viewed this as primitive heathen worshiping with a mythological culture and therefore, would NEVER be regarded as an advanced technological culture who studied the environment and the part they played in for hundreds or thousands of years

[@davidhill500]

GDAY ROB..MATE…the ancient dreamtime stories …were all oral and sand images…the stories were on many levels….all children were schooled in these stories..to be able to navigate….find food,..keep moeity….when you grew up..you had a verbal road map..learnt by heart..so you knew..( nomadic )..what season you were in…and where to travel next..for food and ceremony….all nations had these DREAMTIME STORIES..AND IF YOU COMBINED THEM ALL..YOU COULD WALK AUSTRALIA…AND NEVER BE LOST ..OR STARVE….NOT SO PRIMITIVE ..AS THE “ WADJELLAS “ think..( its a NOONGAH WORD..)..

[@charki40]

Now this is someone who has an inkling. Thank you

[@jamied8678]

Everybody's an expert aren't they but they don't know s*** the stories were on bark paintings they were on cave paintings they were oral and were probably different for every tribe . Stop bullshiting this poor guy

[@jamied8678]

@@charki40 what about talking bulshit

[@robertmurray8763]

Australia went through a ice age 16,000 to 25,000 years ago. 7,200 to 37,000 years ago in-between Melbourne and Mount Gambier was the Worlds 🌎 third largest Volcanic Plains. The last known eruption was Mount Napier 7,200 years ago. Very close to Lake Condah.

[@robertmurray8763]

Sorry that was Victoria 100km West Mount Gambier South Australia erupted 5,000 years ago.

[@caltravels9454]

They are incredible people, I think the corralling of fish came from very simple technique, using many people to corral the fish originally, then one day somebody had the idea to replace people numbers with stones, enabling the hunt to go on essentially endlessly without having to physically hunt all the time.

[@andrew_koala2974]

Cal Travels some'one' had the idea NOT some'body' had the idea 1. You have not yet learned the meaning and significance of 'One' 2. You have not yet learned the difference in meaning between the two words. 3. Understand that a body refers to a DEAD entity. The cemetery and mortuary are filled with 'bodies' One is Alive - One is Supreme - ne is unique - One is the Cardinal number There is 'no one' like you and there never will be again - and there never was one like you in existence before. When there is only 'One' there is thus No replacement. Are you getting the point yet ? You should read more and study both the English and Latin languages. Good luck and good bye

[@caltravels9454]

@@andrew_koala2974 chill out mate, sorry I offended your take on grammar, no need to write a book, my comment was all about how amazing their culture is, fuck you to the moon

[@robertmurray8763]

Lake Condah Victoria. Eels would of been traped using a corralling system. Indigenous fish in south western Victoria tended small no more than 10 centimetres long and narrow.

[@FlyxPat]

The whale thing is true. Later British whalers did the same thing. They trained killer whales to take them to the humpbacks or whatever and throw the tongues to the killer whales. There’s a famous killer whale skeleton in the museum at Eden on Twofold Bay, preserved for this reason. Maybe they learned it from the natives.

[@christinecoombs3536]

The aboriginals did actually have “pen and paper” in the form of rock paintings and bark paintings. Many of these were descriptions and instructions on food that were available in that area including flora and fauna. In my area ( Sydney) there are many rock carvings depicting fish , stingrays and whales that could be caught and eaten. They also used songs and dances which they pass down to each generation. These art forms also convey major events and Dreamtime accounts of great spiritual importance.

[@planetpetey]

Rob you should investigate aboriginal “ song lines”. It was / is not only about mapping country but a means of passing on knowledge about land people history needs trading problem solving and many other aspects of society like law Totally sophisticated way of living. This from the longest living culture ever in the human history from a people who not only kept the country alive but perhaps they’re greatest acheivement being that they are the only culture never to wage major warfare. Read a book called “ Dark Emu”. It will blow your mind !!!

[@larissahorne9991]

I can answer your question about how Aboriginal people teach others how to do something. Basically you hang around with them, watch what they do, try it yourself and then they'll help you get it right. They didn't have to speak the same language to pass on what they knew.

[@jamied8678]

Rather millennial way of looking at it I would have said 🤣 yeah just dismiss 100000 years of laws and ceremonies

[@dylaningram9675]

Knowledge was passed on through song, dance & art. Corroboree’s (tribe meetings) helped pass on the knowledge to other tribes which is pretty much storytelling through song, dance & art. I’m also a millennial but also Aboriginal haha

[@jamied8678]

@@dylaningram9675 it's such a shame the Aboriginal people are much more interested in symbolism now as opposed to fixing what's going on in the communities

[@jamied8678]

You don't learn Aboriginal culture just by hanging around them just picking it up like it some sort of hobby, you actually need to be initiated into the men's groups in the women's groups to be told the stories . Now they may have told you you're welcome to hang around but Im sure you would have gone away with less cigarettes and cash in your pocket and not much actual knowledge . An any white person attempting to hang around Aboriginal people is going to find themselves in trouble you don't tell them that

[@larissahorne9991]

@@dylaningram9675 Thanks for telling me. But I'm a teenager of the 90's. I have Aboriginal friends but none have explained that to me.

[@jgsheehan8810]

There are also tales about the Aboriginals working with sharks around Eden which was a prime whaling area

[@siryogiwan]

yeah a mob around an area on mid north coast, had a connection to tiger sharks, so doesn't surprise me

[@Drew-p7p]

Orcas brother, not sharks

[@RoyHolder]

Farmers and monoculturists use fertilisers, gardeners use compost, that's a big problem. PS, there's a LOT of aboriginal rock art. Another way to preserve history, those places are sacred for obvious reasons.

[@robertmurray8763]

It's not so many years ago European and Asian like Aboriginal peoples would produce most of there own food for the year on a small block and still a lot of people do grow there own food today. Now most Australians live in a multi story APARTMENT. While people say Irrigation, fertilisers and compost is bad. Try growing a crop without them and you will be doomed to failure. A lot of farms are monoculture they are three large supermarkets chains that will only deal with big farms that produce large amount of fruit and vegetables. Dictating what they want from a farm. Farms today only have a limited varieties grown on there farms but it is CONSUMER DRIVEN.

[@jamied8678]

It was so sad I saw a documentary where the land council had let the mining companies in . there was a big pile of rocks which used to be a cave and there's one of the Wadgena figures still visible on one of the rocks but the cave was destroyed

[@anserbauer309]

I can't speak to the truth of the story about killer whales and people working together, but the whales are not always "so far out to sea". Even today, it's common to see whales within 50 metres or less of the shore; especially Southern Right whales with calves on the South West coast of Victoria. It's not implausible that killer whales would chase these large, slow-moving whales to strand in estuaries or sand bars where people could butcher them at low tide, leaving plenty for the killer whales to eat when the tide came back in. You might even get to see some on your Great Ocean Road journey if Winter runs long.

[@zigzaggreg]

I have heard of the killer whale story and the knowledge and the practice of leaving the tongue for the orcas was continued into white settlement and whale harvesting until a captain broke the 'treaty' leading to his demise and ending the trust between orca and whaler

[@dirkisonfire]

Orcas are incredibly smart, so indigenous people building a rappot over +40`000yrs with them seems highly likely to me

[@rosiekickett2617]

Im a proud Noongah woman from Perth Western Australia and my Country is the Southwest of Western Australia...there is so much evidence currently being discovered that Aboriginal people managed the land & u r right to say that bcoz we knew different tribes lands as this was extremely important as this generally meant the language was different & their Lore was different...it is well known among Aboriginal people that a person from 1 tribe could not marry anutha person from a different tribe as this was forbidden...& 2 travel to anutha tribes land would also be forbidden & could lead 2 severe consequences so yeah we had a very Traditional culture that is still practiced amongst some Aboriginal tribes as most others lost their culture and language due to settlement....THX FOR RESPECTING MY PEOPLE & OUR CULTURE

[@mandoperthstacker]

I remember there was a video from our National Archives, a curator showed written notes by Lieutenant James Cook (at the time) during his first voyage encountering Australia. He described the coastline of NE of Queensland's Coast before reaching upper right islands, for every evening there were long lines of campfires that never seemed to stop on the beach. He tried to use those campfires to roughly calculate the population from off shore, which to him seemed to be in the 1,000,000's or something over a 3 evening stretch of sailing. (It may not be accurate as it was serious guesstimation by him) If those numbers were accurate, the land was far more populated than they tried to make out later before the take over event years later.

[@scruffy_cockatoo]

Best video so far Rob! It's always good to show people the real history of Australia. Like Midnight Oil in their song Beds are Burning: "it's time to pay the rent and give it back!"

[@duanehirini2078]

I remember an old boat ramp near Port Hedland back in the eighties which had been cut through aboriginal rock carvings thousands of years old. Can't get out there now, but back in the day you could. I asked my friends what it was, and he said it was an aboriginal school and kids were taken there to learn. When the moon is like this and this flower blooms then the turtles are coming up. Further on were other examples he told me, which I forget now. When the fish arrive, the emu's have eggs, so on. Now those flowers are extinct, or animals no longer exist, so its hard to make sense of it today. And we just cut a boat ramp through an ancient school of knowledge like its whatever.

[@shenysys]

With Bogong moths, can remember growing up seeing hundreds of them passing through my city but these days you hardly ever see any. Also around Christmas you see beetles we called Christmas beetles but hardly see them also,

[@pronumeral1446]

We have Murnong tubers growing in our garden! It's being brought back! ... As for how did they figure out agriculture - ... we know that various forms of agriculture were invented by many different peoples across the world, independently. Australia, PNG, west Africa, Egypt, fertile crescent (Middle East and Levant), Indus Valley, Northeastern North America, Central America, the Andes, and China

[@BAAKA8]

My people history goes so far in time its hard to comprehend. so many stories lost along with knowledge

[@reddog5378]

So much knowledge and traditions have been lost forever, if only we had of listened back in the day.

[@adammuggleton4107]

If your flying Qantas to Australia, when you land here, there will be an announcement on touchdown that’s an of acknowledgment of the first peoples, past, present and emerging. Looking forward to to your post whilst in Australia

[@dirkisonfire]

Every native Australian animal has soft padded feet which does not damage native flora. The introduction of hoofed animals e.g horses, cattle, sheep etc was devastating to the land causing unrepairable damage.

[@kerriemills1310]

Bakers, Farmers, Fisheries And Painting and Shell 🐚 jewellery makers and Basket 🧺 weavers. The Aborigines we’re Amazing 🤩 doing it right. This has been awesome watching on with you wit this Rob. Thank You.

[@brendonrookes1151]

if u like propagander

[@kerriemills1310]

@@brendonrookes1151 There is a place for everything and I guess propergander can have it’s place too. Be it how you see it.

[@zigzaggreg]

Improper gander or proper gander?

[@dirkisonfire]

Understanding of aerodynamics (boomerang)

[@siryogiwan]

I'm sure it's been pointed out, but they did have paper, the bark of the tree called paperbarks, but art has been used to tell stories to pass on, along with landmarks and astrological features

[@stuartspencer2161]

In regards to the whales, Sydney Habour usually sees whales entering through the heads annually during the migration period. When I was a kid in the 70's, we used to spend a lot of time playing in the bush on the North Head, and around Collin's Flat (a small, once almost isolated beach), there was a large rock within the bush we would meet at, that we had actually nicknamed Isengard, but it did have some native artwork on it , depicting Aboriginals hunting a whale. As for whether that rock is still there today, with all the development that has gone on in the past couple of decades, I have no idea, and the few instances I have gone back there, I've never been able to find it.

[@gruboniell4189]

They had purpose. It’s a culture. The most advanced social system ever to exist

[@stevegraham3817]

Multiple 10s of thousands of years ago for some of these technologies. How many medicines have we lost over the years. 8 of the 10 drugs required for a Heart transplant come from the Amazon but it took us until the early 1900s to 'discover' those things. What else has been lost? Well managed land to disastrous bushfires in the late 1900s and 2000s. Some of their culture is actually very complex. They had family structures within their own groups and the neighbouring groups and worked who could and couldn't marry to avoid inbreeding. Rather than the old man somehow taming the killer whales, it was probably more about his knowledge of how and when the killer whales would push the whales ashore, so no point in young people wasting time on the beach, they could keep doing their other work while the old man sussed it all out. In my Brisbane SEQLD region there is Bunya Pine Trees up in the Bunya Mtns, which fruit every 2-3 years. There would be a big festival and gathering called a Corroboree where they feasted on the nuts, probably played games, shared knowledge, no doubt did something with marriages and swapped goods and technologies. In our region there was 6 seasons and one I remember is the flowering of the Wattle trees in late Winter signified the migration of one of the Whiting species among other species of fish, there is another land signal for the start of Crab and Prawn season. We get westerly winds in mid August which more or less signifies the end of the coldest part of Winter. I also remember they threw the first fish back to make sure the species would breed, we are not as smart with our Trawlers these days. They didn't swim or wash or camp too close to certain waters used for drinking. How many years did it take Europe to figure that out after the Romans were shuffled back home.? Here is some other info I just found for the first time about the Fraser Island region 300km north of Brisbane. Butchulla people used rope made from vines to climb trees in search of honey. Honey bees-native bees about the size of a small bush fly-were guarded by very strict rules. The people were selective when picking flowers, leaving white flowers that were favoured by the bees to make honey (a favourite sweetener) and wax (used in canoe construction). Butchulla people believe all life is connected. Some signs in nature give clues for other events, for example: When wattle trees flower, whiting are good for fishing. When black wattles flower, diamond scale mullet are in the gutter on K’gari. Learn from the birds and don’t take the first school of fish. They are scouts searching for danger (Page, M., pers com, 2 May 2010). The cotton tree has many uses for the Butchulla-its sap heals warts and ringworm, and its wood forms a base on which to make fire. The Butchulla also know that eucalyptus leaves, when sweated over a fire, secrete an oil that repels mosquitoes; and its soft resin, melted over a fire, quells toothache. In times of drought, fresh water can always be found beneath the roots of the Casuarina tree. Specialised knowledge was required before eating fruit of the pandanus. It took a week of soaking in fresh running water followed by rigorous pounding before the fruit, rich in fats and proteins, and with the sweet flavour of custard apples, could be enjoyed. Pineapple-shaped fruit of the Macrozamia cycad required similar treatment to unlock the starch to make bread. Not all food required such intensive treatment. Roots of bungwall ferns and yams provided important readily-sourced starch. Berries, such as the small sweet midyim, were also there for the picking, although the people were careful not to strip all the berries from the bush, leaving sufficient to reproduce. A number of yams were always returned to the soil for next year’s harvest.

[@charki40]

A great Video. Thanks for reacting to this Rob. Cheers Mate. : )

[@amandacasey1946]

Hadn't heard about the whale story but while on holiday in Queensland, at one of the islands, we were told how the traditional owners and dolphins used to trap fish and we saw the stone circular traps

[@BD-yl5mh]

The thing with the orcas seems plausible to me, because they are known to be highly intelligent. They’ve been observed using complex co-operative hunting techniques and creative hunting methods like swimming in such a way to create a bow wave that knocks seals off of rocks and icebergs, bringing them into the water where the orca can catch it. They’ve also been known to chase prey into shallow water as part of a hunt. So it’s possible that this sort of relationship COULD have formed It would probably require a certain bit of beach. (The gradient of the sand below the waves would need to be right for beaching). And it would probably have happened accidentally at first. A group of people would have just gotten lucky to witness a normal orca hunt where they chased the whale into the shallows, taken advantage of the opportunity and then thrown a bit of meat to the orcas. This would reinforce the orcas to continue beaching prey in that area I guess, and the people in the area would come back to check the beach and have continued success. Over generations this could turn into a fairly regular occurrence I suppose

[@keithmitchell3282]

where are the GREAT WALLS , PYRAMIDS , COLOSSEUMS , TAJ MAHALS ,INCA TYPE CITIES , and hundreds of other magnificent constructions that other societies have built , oh we built bark huts .40K years of total inactivity ,lets be real please

[@zwieseler]

Did those civilisations endure for 60,000 years? Don’t think so…🙄

[@echofoxpaw73]

hey that was a painting of my ancestors at 15:45 !

[@anEyePhil]

Rob, read about the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart. Our First Nations people have so much to offer to everyone. While it has been a tragic history, there is a wish to recognise, reconcile and move on together. As the original inhabitants, First Nations people must have Constitutional recognition and, hopefully, a respected voice to Parliament.

[@brasschick4214]

When you come to Australia check out the NITV free-to-air television channel. Some history but also current issues, sports and arts etc, important to Indigenous Australians (and non-Indigenous people too).

[@AussieTVMusic]

Sounds like a paradise to me.

[@shanegooding4839]

In Southwestern Australia the Noongar people knocked holes into the local grass trees because they knew beetles liked to lay their eggs in damaged trees. When the eggs hatched the Noongar harvested the grubs called bardis which had a nutty flavour. They apparently taste so good that even white folks here ate them up until the 40s. Noongar peoples also harvested and managed eels here as well but the settlers have wiped out the native eel stock in a few generations.😢

[@bernadettelanders7306]

The older I got the more I realised our Indigenous knew far more about this land than we ever did. Watching this vid I learned so much more. My son’s best friend/best man is Aboriginal, wonderful man. He’s still learning about his heritage. He said to me “if you find some really good info, send to me.” I’ll definitely be sending him this video.

[@jamied8678]

Well real Aboriginal people don't think they were farmers so I don't know how we would feel about this

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@jamied8678 I never thought or said they were farmers. They knew how to look after this land, far better than we ever knew which is sacred to them. That doesn’t make them anything like Australian farmers. But some our farmers are finally learning from the indigenous in different ways to get what you need to survive without destroying the land. I’m absolutely no expert at all, I just love watching documentaries of indigenous people sharing the ways they did things.

[@jamied8678]

@@bernadettelanders7306 They burnt the land because it made life easier for them . New grass shoots means animals turning up. When the fire was happening all the lizards and snakes ran out but people don't realise they turned this country from rainforest into a dessert with these practises

[@jamied8678]

@@bernadettelanders7306 I only wish the farmers were learning from the indigenous people they still don't believe that trees being removed has any effect on the land

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@jamied8678 I know.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Look up "Storm Boy", it's an excellent movie about the historic Aboriginal connection with animals! 👍

[@johnyarrmakayn5773]

Thanks you for sharing bro I'm an Aborigine from Australia

[@TheBillABCTV]

Also when they arrived in Australia it was bigger land mass during the ice age and it was called Sahul.

[@michealbohmer2871]

Haha!! Check out the world map on the back wall at the end (at 20:19) of his video: Australia is upside down!!!

[@kerra3699]

The aboriginal people were not primitive hunter gatherers. They were evolved social ecologists with great knowledge of their environment. They also had a strong deep spiritual belief, a belief we could all learn from.

[@petertimp5416]

Be very wary a lot of misinformation out there lots of books written that have been proven wrong!!! Buyer beware

[@rowanbrecknell4021]

Yeah they discount them because this is not how it is supposed to be. You get lost in the bush for a week they think you are dead. They were in the bush for thousands of years. I was talking to a bloke today at work about eating green ants arses. It is vitamin C. I said I have only eaten termites they taste like carrots it takes a long time but they get you by. It was a great conversation talking and eating green ants arses.

[@aussiebornandbred]

Take this with a pinch of salt🤣

[@charki40]

And you got a heart. No wonder Aboriginal Australians have the highest suicide rate in the country and the highest rate of incarceration per capita. Willful ignorance, based on no facts or research harms and fuels racism and harm in my country. It kills us to be honest. Its maims us too. I hope you are both proud. Please explain why the GRAIN of SALT is required with the laughing emoji. Present FACTS mate. Just facts. Otherwise this is just a statement based on bigotry.

[@davidhill500]

GDAY ROB…MATE..THESE WERE NATIONS…BIT LIKE EUROPEAN NATIONS..IE BELGUIM..ETC….I BET THE POIROT MOB…WOULDNT LIKE BEING CALLED…A TRIBE..NOR THE LICHTENSTEIN PEOPLES….LOL.

[@brendonrookes1151]

your full of shit the indiginous people were primitive before europeans lived here

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

There were NEVER a "nation" just a disparate group of tribes at war.

[@davidhill500]

@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Gday ..GEOFF..SAME AS EUROPE ,ASIA ,AFRICA, AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA…JUST LARGE TRIBES..AT WAR…..ESPECIALLY THE EUROPEANS…SADLY

[@garryellis3085]

Brilliant video. Thankyou

[@rowanbrecknell4021]

The cows now are as heavy as a tractor. They compact the soil where ever they go. In Medievil times a cow only weighed 80kg.

[@adammuggleton4107]

Hi Rob, if your interested, check out the Campbelltown hospital redevelopment. Look up Campbelltown hospital focus on design. I’m the geek being interviewed

[@deborahduthie4519]

The Victorian Governor’s wife Eliza used to organise debauched parties with Aborigine Shooting trips for entertainment. Check out our first Dollar note. The one from the first year because the visual story printed on note was voted not to have the sailor shooting Aboriginal women as they ran away, for the second printing of the One Dollar note.

[@jakeleejack5363]

If history was written differently in Australia i really do believe my people could've had the answers they seek about the ancient world etc but like a missing piece a puzzle cant be fixed. Regardless love Australia & our white ozzi cousins 😎👍🏼

[@billybobwombat2231]

Their spirituality would blow your mind

[@FlyxPat]

Find the Aboriginal language map. Must be on the internet somewhere. Gives you an idea of the political and geographic economy of Aboriginal Australia, if you overlay it on a topographic map.

[@FlyxPat]

@not today - they adapted, cooperated and fought. No different to other humans.

[@FlyxPat]

@not today - archeology, anthropology and history ain’t going to stop because it makes your head hurt, cuz

[@FlyxPat]

@not today - you can argue about definitions, but they managed the landscape. Watch the video, cuz

[@larissajanehume]

We still here :)

[@TheSamleigh]

Remember the Aboriginals were only feeding small numbers of people at that time so they didnt need as much. All the various Aboriginal groups would get together during the year i heard. Whales? they come in really close to the coast you know.

[@andrew_koala2974]

05:37 -- Now you know why Australis was known as a Penile Colony.

[@viviennerodgers5351]

We need to change our farming methods from British/EU to Australian Native methods. This would if not reverse would halt the climate change we suffering from now.

[@robertmurray8763]

in Australia we driven by consumer market that likes to eat food mainly from Europe and Asia. How should we change it? Please only answer if you have knowledge of agriculture and horticulture.

[@robertmurray8763]

Aboriginal methods of agriculture and horticulture were plausible for a smaller population but we would have to change our whole diet. Aboriginal diet was documented 60% animal 40% vegetables, fruit,and, grains.

[@davidjohnpaul7558]

Our first nation were & are exceptionally intelligent people, who knew how to live well & sustain life...

[@RobReacts1]

How can they be better with the land than 'us' with all the technology we have? amazing

[@davidhill500]

GDAY ROB..MATE..OUR MOB..HAVE SIX (6 ) seasons per year..

[@robertmurray8763]

Autumn, Winter, Early Spring, Late Spring Early Summer and Late Summer. Which makes sence for a lot of southern Australia. Other parts Australia it would not make sense.

[@davidhill500]

@@robertmurray8763 GDAY ROBERT..mate they are food cycles..not diurnal ..as the european model follows..they have been this way..since time immemorial..as nomadic peoples must always travel ..so as not to exhaust resources..and they involve ASTRONOMY..VARYING STAR PATTERNS GUIDE .THE SEASONAL TRAVELS AS WELL..

[@glenjones7006]

They were hunter gatherers.They did not till the soil,they grubbed the soil with sticks to gather yams.This is not the same as planting cropsThey gathered the seeds of wild grasses that grew in abundance after the burning of the dry vegitation.The peoples of Europe have been making fish traps for thousands of years.They did not plant trees.The trees that were left in these park lands were the ones that weren`t destroyed by fire. This program was written with rose tinted glasses.For a country the size of Australia,to only support 700000 or 800000 people at the time of european settlement proves that this wasn`t a garden of eden.They had to work at it to keep themselves fed.

[@robertmurray8763]

Many anthropologists do not know how many Aboriginal lived-in Australia pre European settlement. Ask them the population. They are not sure which is a honest answer. Very large area's of the inland desert or semi desert. It's very drought prone Many paers of Australia are uninhabited today..

[@jenniferharrison8915]

I saw an illustrated picture as a child that mostly showed them with a tiny dirty tent, the man with an animal fur wrap American Indian style, the woman barely covered, naked dirty children, a kangaroo and a snake on the open fire and a boomerang and spear - later bottles of alcohol were added and fighting - these pictures and attitudes originated from West Australia, excuses to move them on!!? At school I learned that our last Aboriginal, Truginini had died, saw witchetty grubs and Albert Namatjira paintings! .. Incredibly instructive, and it's not just bush medicine! 👍 Of course with recent land erosion, climate change, dams, less trees, and mass animal farming, it making new agriculture harder now! 😫 Tasmania brought in conservation, National Parks, water powered energy and a total ban on chemicals and aerosols first in Australia - it may be the last hope one day if climate change continues, not the Apple Isle any longer but Australia's food bank! 😟

[@kathleenkildare8688]

The new Labour gov't has actually made moves to harness this knowledge for use today.

[@desleybettens5356]

Surely it is true mate. The animals & Australian aboriginals have worked together for 60,000 years.

[@elisahelen]

thanks Rob for this. I have learnt a lot from it.

[@Lnch4ALion]

Like most techniques that are newly formed, they saw patterns of behaviour in nature that were useful to them. They repeated that pattern to their own benefit. That repetition becomes a technique

[@charki40]

New....40,000 yrs.

[@jamied8678]

Absolutely they lived off the land but they certainly didn't farm it

[@jamied8678]

@@charki40 they reckon it's 80000 years now

[@xkimopye]

One of your best rob

[@ked7426]

Very interesting would like more, thank you. 😊

[@terrygibson7143]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I have never heard of any dreamtime story that tells of massive bushfires.

[@charki40]

Dreamtime is a euphemism for our cosmology. Bushfires are a natural occurrence. As in it occurs even today hence not a Dreaming. Logic requires us to know how nature works and act accordingly. Which rational people did.

[@larissajanehume]

Google firesticks alliance - many of our families practicing cultural burning again thanks to preservation of knowledge

[@robertmurray8763]

Not all of this makes logical sense. BEWARE.

[@michealbohmer2871]

Many of us have our own language as well. There were at least 250 and up to 363 indigenous languages. My peoples language, Dhanggati, is now an extinct language, unfortunately.

[@desleybettens5356]

Australian aboriginals we’re environmental experts. They respected & revered their environment & lived equally, fairly & soundly for 60,000 years in that healthy environment, They are extremely intelligent, wise people ; they honour their land with deep spiritual respect and honour their descents by leaving the country in a healthy state for those who come after them.

[@billschild3371]

In societies where knowledge is passed through oral traditions a series of initiations take place as you move up the levels at which you acquire more knowledge. This made the elders the most important people in the tribe and normally only one person in the tribe who had all the knowledge gained over the millennia so that it didn't get distorted when it got passed to the future holder of the knowledge. This is why when the majority of these knowledge holders were killed off at first contact we lost so much of how the Australian continent functioned prior to European settlement.

[@amandadaniel2835]

I haven't sean a bogong moth in years in Nsw

[@melissabarrett9750]

There was communication between non indigenous humans prior to pen and paper. There were verbal stories, there were storytellers who would use sticks to draw images in the dirt, they would even arrange sticks and stones to communicate. Modern man has simply been spooled by the initial use of papyrus to write on using plant pigments on stick tips and subsequent advancements.

[@elizabethmajor7081]

STORES Tell us about the trees and everything

[@christinecoombs3536]

You might like to look up Terra Nulius and the appalling injustice done to the Aboriginal people by the British colonists.

[@mikaakoa2605]

Can we change the "were" to Are please 😊

[@jaynebuchanan4612]

Languages have been recorded, photos taken and culture now documented etc.

[@johnfranke9655]

All information was passed on from the elders to the next generation using song or dance or music and rock art just saved on a lot of paper and pencils

[@jenniferharrison8915]

60,000 years, they are saying now!!

[@jayweb51]

Killer whales(Orcas) would chase and heard other whales into shallow waters, to feed on their prey; so being with in eye view of this occurrence, it's not so far fetched the the aborigines were able to assist the killer whales. So an association is mutually established.

[@eclecticapoetica]

In central Australia (and probably the rest of Australia prior to invasion) the peoples had very sophisticated kinship systems and law which prescribed which aspects of the natural environment were the responsibility of each individual, group of people clans and larger tribal complexes. So people had personal totem animals, were forbidden some foods, had to maintain certain ‘tracks’, keep waterholes free of debris, ensure various species has good food sources. This law was passed down in day to day activities by example, in one-to-one instruction, in learning certain songs and whole song cycles, in artworks and diagrams painted in ochre on bark or stone, in engraved rocks, woven into the pattern of the grass baskets and ‘dilly-bags’ in which the women carried food they gathered. In North QLD similar systems were in place right up to the 1950’s-1970’s and there are still old people who remember and practice those ways. The knowledge that indigenous Australians had was immense, sadly we we never know much of it because of the blindness of the white settlers to anything outside their own experience and perspectives.

[@justinhollis5579]

Shame more enthusiast isn't placed on teaching specifics of the culture instead of token "Welcome to Country" and "Custodian recognition" gestures.

[@brionykathryne6716]

If only it was still like that for aboriginal people. Crime, drugs and poverty are their biggest issues today. My friends electric scooter and wallet was stolen by a group of abos a few days ago. I respect them as first nations people but some need to get their fucking act together.

[@AussieTVMusic]

You can say the same about white people . Individuals commit crimes. Not ethnic groups.

[@Chris-ei5fz]

It’s not bizarre low numbers and a hunter gatherer nomadic lifestyle, yes no where in this video did they mention farming or cultivation only large scale gathering of what was available. It would be impossible for that way of life to support large populations.

[@robertmurray8763]

Most of Australia's lack of fresh water.

[@tuijapeltonen8075]

I think the modern people have to think outside the box, we don't know everything , there is so much to learn from old cultures. Also people were not so greedy, the life was simple and the main thing is to get food, when you have food , then the other things in life can flourish.

[@daveross1638]

you know they used to fight and kill each other i love how people think aboriginees were this peace loving people they raped and murdered other aboriginees all the time but hey go on with lying your ass off.

[@charki40]

Outside the box is industrialization. Its unnatural. Nature didnt do this. Humans did.

[@caintindal1671]

Go to Papau New Guinea and you will find out.

[@KingOfGamesss]

3:56 ...honestly mate...I have a suspicion that we might not like to know the actual answer to that question...

[@jemxs]

And we wonder why first nations people feel so much damage and misrepresented.

[@cy_bels]

Yes. I want more videos like this please 🙏👌