澳大利亚国家概况(地理和人文)The Land and the Peoples of the Dreaming(终).pptVIP

The land and the Peoples of dreaming ;Distinctive（独特的） features of the land;the Great dividing Ganging;The platypus(鸭嘴兽) 1. the world’s most unusual animal 2.small;web-footed; egg-laying mammal（哺乳动物）with a bill like a duck and can stay under water for as long as 14 minutes ;Unique animals in Australia;Unique animals in Australia;Unique animals in Australia;In the north: tropical（热带的） rainforests In the southeast: snowfields occupy the plateau（平原） landscapes In the center and the western: two thirds of the lands is dessert or semi dessert ;The people ;In 1770, British navigator （航海家）James Cook arrived in the east coast of Australia ,proclaimed that UK possessed the land . Since the First Fleet bringing the first convicts (罪犯）to Australia arrived in 1788 ,there have been only 8 generations of settlers. ;aboriginall;The dreaming is the belief system from ancient times that has bound indigenous （本土的）groups together . The central principle of the dreaming is that people who lives on the continent have special responsibilities to the land . The people don’t own the land ,instead the land owns the people . The stories of the dreaming provide principles of how people should live and interact with each other . They also provide knowledge of the land so that the indigenous people can survive in the life threatening environment . ;Contact and the Concept of Terra Nullius（无人拥有的土地）;Indigenous people were dispossessed of the land they had lived on for tens of thousands years (原著居民生活了几万年的土地被剥夺了） They were killed in violent skirmishes and massacres （在小冲突和大屠杀中被杀害） They contracted the disease brought by the white settlers and as a result ,their population fell drastically （感染上白色殖民者带来的疾病，人口迅速下降）;By the mid 1800s ,the government practice of violence changed to policies of segregation （隔离）and exclusion （排斥） The aboriginal people were forcibly taken from their own land and put on reserves （保留地）where they were placed under the absolute control of white officials ,often Chr