Obligations to the land

Question 1

Aboriginal law and spirituality are determined by?

Answer 1

the land, the people and creation.
- Thus forms culture and sovereignty (supreme power/authority)

Question 2

Each Aboriginal possesses some essence of?

Answer 2

The ancestral beings that is created in their country.

• Therefore, each person is a custodian (steward) of the land.

Question 3

Ancestral beings handed down, what?

Answer 3

laws and customs relating to sustaining and responsible management.

Question 4

What is a ritual estate

Answer 4

The land that they have responsibility for

Question 5

Clan members are responsible for maintaining what?

Answer 5

sacred sites under guidance of elders.
Sacred sites are inhabited by ancestral beings.
- Clan members perform sacred rituals to honour the ancestral beings.
“ The land is the mother & we are of the land; we do not own the land rather the land owns us. The land is our food, our culture, our spirit & our identity.”

Question 6

Kanyini

Answer 6

“Caring with unconditional love”
Bob Randal