The word “aboriginal” means “the first” or “earliest known”. The Aborigines, represent 2% of the Australian population, 400,000 people. Before the Europeans came to Australia, there were about 2 million Aborigines. They lived in balance with the nature, with freedom and friendship between the tribes. As many years went by, more and more Europeans came to Australia. The Europeans persecuted the Aborigines hard and in 1920 the number had fallen to 60,000. It ended up in many fights between Aborigines and Europeans. To stop the battles the authority made civil rights for the Aborigines. It was until 1967 that the Aborigines got citizenship and voting rights.
The Aboriginals way of living in the early years, was much different than it is today. There were more than 600 tribes who lived in family groups. They had no king or leader, but an old woman or man to solve the problems. They knew much about which resources the landscape had. They knew how to detect and catch the animals, and they knew which plants that could be used as food or used in medicine. They knew also how to make tools, canoes and cabins of which existed in the landscape. They also developed things to carry water and fire, to their long walking tours.
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