TASK : Using Sources - Europeans, Aboriginals and the Land Source 5.12: Aboriginal Groups in Australia at the time of European Settlement. This map attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia. It shows only the general locations of larger groupings of people which may include clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. It used published resources from the eighteenth century-1994 and is not intended to be exact, nor the boundaries fixed. It is not suitable for native title or other land claims. David R Horton (creator), © AIATSIS, 1996 . Questions: Anwer in full sentences in your book. 1. Using source 5.1, how do Aboriginal people see the land? 2. According to source 5.3, why did the Europeans take Aborginal land without making agreements? 3. How do the sources explain how conflict arose between Aboriginal people and the British settlers? 4. What does source 5.12 reveal about Australia at the time of European settlement? 5. Do you find anything in source 5.12 surprising or unexpected? Challenge: Most of history written about Australia from 1788 to 1901 was by non-Aboriginal people. What problems would this create for a person researching this time period? Task 2: Illustration of the British in Sydney Cove Source 2 – Raising the flag at Sydney Cove on 26th January 1788. Naval officers are in blue uniform, Marines in red. Illustration from the 1800’s. Answer the following questions in sentence format: 1. What is depicted in Source 2? Include details about the landscape. 2. What does raising a flag symbolise? 3. Early illustrations of Sydney Cove usually include images of Aboriginal Australians. Why might the artist, who composed this picture 50 years after the event, have left them out? Colonies of Australia Timeline Task: Using https://education.aec.gov.au/making-a-nation/module2/default.html#Activity1Landing learn how the colonies changed over time. Options: Sketch the appropriate map onto the timeline below and summarise the notes for that map. Or match the number to the appropriate date. However, be careful matching numbers because the website is interactive therefore, restarts and shuffles the numbers for the maps with each new turn.
