Module 8 Section One When the white men first arrived in Botany Bay, they were g

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Module 8 Section One When the white men first arrived in Botany Bay, they were greeted by the Gwaegal, a clan of the D'harawal people of the Sydney region who lived on the eastern side of Botany Bay, from the Terralbi or South Head to Kuranulla or Cronulla. The Gwaegal were Salt Water people, because their main food came from the sea. Westwards from the Gwaegal, beginning from the western side of Botany Bay, were the Bitter Water Pcoples, where the rivers ran over the plains, the Bitter Water mobs were also divided into the Swamp Walkers, whose major food supply came from the swamps, the Mud Walkers, who lived along the banks of the rivers and the Sand Walkers, those who lived between the rivers, and whose major food supply came directly from The Land itself. My own clan, the Bidigal, were Swamp Walkers who wandered from swamp to swamp according to season, from the western shores of Botany Bay, to the eastern banks of the northern Wollondilly/Nepean River. My husband's people were the Nattaigal, the Sweet Water People where the water runs over rocks, and whose major food supply came from the gorges and plateaus of the high country Module 8: Section Two. Water was precious in a land where there were seasons when it was scarce, where droughts lasted ycars, and where fire was always a danger. Australian animals never went to the toilct near fresh water, and nor did the Aboriginal pcople When the white man first arrived in this country, the early observers remarked that the women served the men, because they noted that when a man wanted to drink, it was the woman who went down to the billagong or pond to gather the water in a coolamon and carry it back up the hill to the man. In fact several of the artists of the colony drew the woman carting the water up the hill to the man sitting by the fire or making a boomerang. Only the women carried the still water to the men. They were keeping the water clean. Males

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The Dreaming Stories of D'harawal people (the indigenous people of Australia) are folk stories that is embedded with the values of respecting, protecting and conserving the nature and it's resources.These stories aims to teach and cultivate the sense responsibility and duty towards the nature since ancient times in the most simplistic yet a marvelous way.This story reflects the idea of conserving the water resources which are always been precious since time in memorable.The men folk are forbidden to go near the water resources as they may make the water unclean by urination, so the women were assigned with this task.Gadigam who crossed this rule was transformed into a small black ant as punishment,conveys the message that rules are to be followed and the deviance from it is punished.

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