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Ngadjuri: Aboriginal People of the Mid North Region of South Australia Ngadjuri: Aboriginal people of the Mid North Region of South Australia Order a copy of the full-colour book on which these activities are based, at www.hass-sa.asn.au/resources Suggestions for across curriculum teaching activities Early years Design and make costumes or shadow puppets and perform the story of Eagle and Crow or another Ngadjuri Dreaming story. Listen to the Ngadjuri Dreaming stories then retell the stories (using Ngadjuri words where In consultation with Ngadjuri people, create an possible) through a diorama or drama (using stick animated video version of one or more stories puppets, feathered masks or other costumes). using elements of children’s painting for the Use sand trays to make hills and plains and use illustrations. A Ngadjuri person could be asked to sticks to make a stick nest rat (wada) nest. narrate the story. The video Bobtales is a good Discuss the relevance of the stories for model for such a video. Australians. Refer to the photo of the fish engraving and Imitate the movements of a kangaroo, emu or create a lifesize drawing of it, using the magpie to create a dance. measurements provided. Draw a lifesize person shape or copy the photo Research similarities and differences between of Nicole, a Ngadjuri girl (page 33), and label Ngadjuri and other groups of Aboriginal people relevant features using Ngadjuri language. Play and their cultures. ‘Simon says …’ using Ngadjuri words. Practise saying Ngadjuri words using the Compare a variety of tools and weapons used by pronunciation guide and write the words on a range of Aboriginal people, and describe their labels to reinforce learning. Adapt a familiar song differences and uses. The South Australian or tune to include Ngadjuri words, (eg ‘If you’re Museum is an excellent place to do this. happy and you know it, touch your tidna (feet) …’, etc). Design and create your own hunting or food gathering tool or string using found materials from Draw pictures of animals known to Ngadjuri and your local environment. Evaluate its write their Ngadjuri names if known. effectiveness. Interact with Ngadjuri descendants. Display and Using natural resources, design and make your label their photographs. own musical instrument, (eg tapping sticks for musical percussion), comparing different hardnesses of wood for sound quality. Primary years Identify and collect edible grass or acacia seeds from your local environment and grind them to Compile separate lists of all the words related to make some flour. Make and eat a damper (you birds, lizards, mammals, and fish and find out if could use wheat, millet or oats and maybe add these species can still be found in Ngadjuri some ground Acacia pycnantha (golden wattle), country or if they are extinct or endangered. If Acacia victoriae (elegant wattle) or Acacia they are endangered, find out what strategies are oswaldii (umbrella wattle) seeds if you lightly in place for their survival and how schools, roast them first). A permit is required to collect communities and individuals can assist. seed from public land. Consider adopting an Australian endangered Describe various ways to preserve and share bird or animal to protect through publicity or cultural knowledge. Celebrate the richness of habitat protection. Totems were protected as one Ngadjuri cultural heritage, an invaluable part of would protect a brother or sister. This helped Mid North history, through art works and public ensure survival of various species. Barney displays of information. Waria’s gararu moiety totems were the wudlaru (curlew) and wada (probably stick nest rat). Ngadjuri learning activities – www.hass-sa.asn.au 1 Propagate indigenous food plants and other Consider regenerating indigenous plants and plants such as weaving rushes cyperus fencing off some areas from stock, for example gumnocaulis and find ways to protect and where sedge grass might grow near soakages. conserve other flora (eg peppermint gum trees, Sedge grass is used for traditional basket shrubs, ground covers, kangaroo grass, which weaving and mat weaving, a skill which is being fauna such as birds need to survive). revived. Weave a mat or basket (see p. 100) List ways to inform tourists about Aboriginal Compare linguistic features of Ngadjuri language culture and history. Share your ideas with those with those of English and another language with who can assist positive changes. which students are familiar, for example: • relative placement of adjectives and nouns Middle years 6-9 • pronoun systems • features and sounds in one language which are not in another, such as words beginning with ‘ng’ Create individual art works based on a chosen • bird names which might be onomatopoeic. paragraph or so of information from the Ngadjuri book. Base the artwork on the style used by Alan Explore how the Dreaming stories ‘map’ Ngadjuri Tucker in his books Too many Captain Cooks; environment, including landforms, flora and Homelands and Frontiers; or Side by Side. When fauna, as well as reinforce traditional law. artwork is complete, rewrite the information in easily understandable words which can be read Locate relevant information from Ngadjuri from a distance. Display art work with text as part Dreaming stories on a map of the Mid North, of a whole class exhibition for an audience and using a distance scale, north marker, a key and invite the audience to provide feedback on the symbols to represent each story. work. Find out how Aboriginal story sites, quarries, Analyse reasons why a colonial governor stone arrangements, campsites, and burial sites gazetted for continued use of Aboriginal place are protected under the Aboriginal Heritage Act. names. Governor Gawler’s wording in the government gazette notice of October 31, 1839, Hypothesise possible ways to preserve from was ‘In regard to the minor features of the country vandalism the quartz reef near Yunta and other to which the natives may have given names, the story sites. Governor would take the present opportunity of requesting the assistance of the colonists in Find out how Aboriginal heritage sites in other discovering and carefully and precisely retaining areas are protected and issues around this. these in all possible cases as most consistent with property and beauty of appellation…’. Collect common sow thistle (before it has flowered), rub it under running water then simmer If you live in Ngadjuri country, research and gently in stock with or without other vegetables. It record remnants of the Ngadjuri traditional has a spinach like taste and consistency. environment such as where indigenous grasses, ground covers, shrubs and trees are growing. Research the animals which are no longer found Many indigenous birds depend on access to such in the Ngadjuri environment. Are they still found plants. elsewhere? Why have they died out? How might Ngadjuri people have responded to this in the Highlight as many Ngadjuri place names as you early contact years? can find on a topographical map of the Mid North. Create a diagram of your extended family and Explore the possibilities of interpretive signs label each person as they would be related to you being displayed to value and acknowledge using Ngadjuri kinship rules. Label any potential Ngadjuri heritage. Discuss issues associated marriage partners according to the rules in this with undertaking such work. Find out if there are chapter. any such signs in place (eg by telephoning local councils). Construct a model of a shelter used by the Ngadjuri in the past and compare its insulation Discuss the meanings of places named by qualities against a contemporary tent and/or Ngadjuri and why they might have been important house. Note that a well designed house should to both Ngadjuri and early European settlers. take advantage of the path of the sun through the sky for winter heating and summer cooling by Locate other place names, which may include having big windows facing north, not east or west, Ngadjuri words. Describe how you might find out and having a sufficient overhang to prevent the a possible meaning. mid summer noon sun directly hitting the windows. Ngadjuri learning activities – www.hass-sa.asn.au 2 Make life size illustrations of rock art engravings Research the routes taken by the explorers, Eyre using the rule measurements indicated in the and Frome, through the Mid North, using photographs, showing 2cm squares. information from a library about early Australian explorers. Plot their routes on a regional map of View the film Widmakara, rock art of the Olary the Mid North. The Atlas of South Australia province. The film, was made by John Forrest, (Griffin 1986) is a good starting point. Margaret Nobbs and Chris Nobbs. The film is an excellent starting point for information about the Try to imagine what Ngadjuri people might have rock engraving and painting sites in the Mid observed at abandoned explorers’ campsites. North. What might young adults have thought compared • What evidence is left of the Ngadjuri occupation to the elders at that time? of this area? • What are the petroglyphs and paintings of? Find out if there are ways that Ngadjuri place • What might the area have been like before names or interpretative signs could help European occupation? contribute to better understanding in a particular • What animals and plants were in the area which part of Ngadjuri country, remembering that may have been used by the Ngadjuri? consultation would need to occur at a later stage with the Ngadjuri people. Organise with others to participate in the activity ‘Ngadjuri history in South Australia since 1800: an Visit a local museum and evaluate information activity for learning’ (pages 120-133). Describe about Aboriginal people to consider if information the feelings of those dispossessed using could be brought up to date. information from the chapter entitled. Invite Ngadjuri descendants to speak in schools Plan a visit to a rock art site in Ngadjuri country.
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