1. The word "aboriginal" means "the first" or "earliest known". The aborigines represent 2% of the Australian population - or 400,000 people. Before the Europeans came to Australia, there were between 1 and 3 million Aboriginals. They were divided up in more than 650 different tribes all around the country. They lived in balance with the nature, with freedom and friendship between the tribes.
2. As the years went by, more and more Europeans came to Australia. The Europeans persecuted the Aboriginals hard and in 1920 the number had fallen to 60,000. It ended up in many big fights between Aboriginals and Europeans. To stop the battles the authority made civil rights for the Aboriginals. It was not
until 1967 that the Aboriginals got citizenship and voting rights. In 1930 the number of Aboriginals was growing again.
Today the Aboriginals are living in reservations and in the cities. Primarily in the Northern Territory, where a quarter of all aboriginal’s lives.
3. 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.
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