Indigenous Australian seasons

Indigenous Australian seasons

Indigenous Australians had distinct ways of dividing the year up. Due to their close reliance upon, and relationship with, nature they were traditionally acutely aware of seasonal variations. Naming and understanding of seasons differed between groups, and depending on where in Australia the group lived. Below are a few examples of different groups and their seasons.

North coast — Yolngu seasons

The Yolngu, Indigenous Australians of North-East Arnhem Land, identify six seasons. Europeans currently living in the Top End identify two— the Wet and the Dry. (Arguably, the "build-up" period between dry and wet is coming to be identified as a distinct third season.) The six Yolngu seasons, and their characteristics, are:

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Source: [http://portal.environment.wa.gov.au/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/ADMIN_SRT/PUBS/LANDSCAPE/RESOURCE_INVENTORY.PDF Swan River System, Landscape Description (Report No 27/28 1997), 6. Resource Inventory, 6.2 Cultural Context] pp41–42 Lisa Chalmers (Waterways Management Planning, Water and Rivers Commission), for the Swan River Trust. The section references "Hunters And Gatherers", "Landscope Volume 8", 1, 31–35, (P. Bindon & T. Walley, 1993) and "Broken Spears: Aboriginals and Europeans in the South West of Australia", Perth: "Focus" (N. Green, 1984). [http://portal.environment.wa.gov.au/portal/page?_pageid=973,2910575&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL Portal page for the entire report] . Retrieved June 9, 2007.

"See also": Noongar seasons

External links

* [http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/index.shtml Indigenous Weather Knowledge] — Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)

ources

* Thomson, D., & Peterson, N., 1983, "Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land", Miegunyah Press, Melbourne. Revised ed. publ. 2003, ISBN 0-522-85063-4, pp172–3.
* Uluru—Kata Tjuta National Park Visitor guide, "Welcome to Aboriginal land", Colemans Printing, Darwin, January 2006, pp24–25.


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