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Greetings. My name is Burnum and I am from one of the aboriginal tribes in Australia. I am married with Bega. Here name means “beautiful” and is the name is 100% correct. We have 1 boy named Mullion. The name means “eagle”, he was given that name because the day he was born there were 3 eagles circling in the sky above our tribe all day. Our healer said it was a sine from the ancestral spirits. He is 12 years now and is out with some of the elders hunting. To hunt with some of the elders is a great honour and is weary exciting.
 * Burnum’s easy about him and his tribe. **

My name, Burnum, means “a great warrior” and there is no coincidence that I have that name. I am one of the tribe’s greatest warriors and hunters.

When I was about 7 or 8 my brother took me out on my first haunting trip for pigs. I was weary nervous. We walked fore some hours until we got to my brothers special hunting place. When we locked around we could se all the pigs just standing there. We started to chase the pigs for then to capture them. We caught 2 suckers(smaller pigs) and 3 large pigs. We let the suckers go because my brother said it was enough with the 3 large pigs. We shot them and carried them home.

While men are hunting large animals women’s are gathering small animals. That’s because females are not allowed to hunt, if they did they could go missing for some years because that’s the law.

The weapons we use are spears, stone knives, shields, boomerangs and Fighting sticks. These weapons are the main one used for hunting, but are weary effective in the wars between the tribes. Trough my time I have been to several wars, and lost many of my friends.

We have lost some of the wars, but won most of them. I remember my first war. It was against our neighbour tribe, we were at war for some land. We won over them whit almost none dead.

But before we go to war or hunting we dance. When we dance we try to lock like animals, especially birds. The dance tells you a lot about our tribe. And the instrument we use is called a didgeridoo. And when we come home at night after the hunt, we sit down round the campfire and tell stories about sorcery and myths.

There are many stories about how the didgeridoo was born, and it’s different in every tribe. But this is the true story, and also the story that our tribe have:

The women’s in the tribe were out collecting wood for the fire. They piled the gathered logs. One of the logs in the pile was hollow - but at this time the women’s were not aware of this. A strong wind began to blow during the day and a strange sound was heard which disturbed the women’s and made them anxious. After a search the tribal members located the sound to a hollow log in the wood pile. Then the didgeridoo was born. (This paragraph was most copied an past from http://hjem.get2net.dk/niels_quist/didge.htm ) Now I am gone tell you a little bit about our art and religion.

Our art involves a lot of tales about rituals, sorcery, magic and myths. We describe our Dreaming, our spirituality, beliefs and the story of creation. The dreamtime is the time before time, were all the living creatures and the landscape were created from the basis and is often used in art. The ancestral spirits came and created everything. The rivers, the people, the plants, the hills and the relationship between man and animals When the ancestral spirits were finished they changed themselves into landforms, animals and stars. To us, the past is still alive and will remain so into the future. This was a little bit about me, my people and our way of life. Kilder: http://www.herbertonss.qld.edu.au/landofoz/edwin.htm, http://hjem.get2net.dk/niels_quist/didge.htm , http://www.lonker.net/art_aboriginal_1.htm,