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Uluru, which is located in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory around 335 km southwest of Alice Springs, Australia. The red heart center of Aboriginal Australia and the largest single rock in the world, Uluru, has been a sacred Aboriginal site for more than 40,000 years. Uluru was also located within the belonging place or homeland of the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people (also known as Anangu) who have received a World Heritage Award for their caretaking. Prior to 1788, the Aboriginal Australia population has been estimated at more than 750,000. The country then was pristine and bountiful. Besides food, "bush tucker", the land provided them with natural remedies for healing, "bush medicine".
Aboriginals took care of
the environment in Australia, making sure that all hunting and gathering
activities were balanced; and, resources were conserved. Every part of an animal
hunted or plant gathered was utilized in some way either as food, baskets,
tools, etc.
They also moved their camps around with the seasonal cycles, allowing the areas of their territory to rest and renew. Traditional Aboriginal lands are mainland Australia and most of the islands. Archaeological findings indicate that Aboriginals have lived in Australia for 40,000 - 100,000 years or longer. Aboriginal means, "the people who were here from the beginning". For the Aboriginals of Australia, spirituality and the sacred is deeply rooted in the landscape and in their relationship to the environment which sustains them. The land is their life, their mother, their way, their nourishment, and their spiritual connectedness. Dreaming Tracks delineate the area of land created by the Ancestral Spirits where a tribe was created, their belonging place.
Along the Dreaming
Tracks there are Sacred Sites, areas of land or sea, where significant events
took place during the Dreamtime. These are increase centers where special
ceremonies are performed for "Taking Care" of a particular species... Continue on
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