Create a cultural calendar

Calendar

This calendar will be accompanied by a 1500 word essay explaining how you went about your research.

The calendar can be presented in digital format or in any other innovative way, but must be in a format that allows assessment.

Use the Brambuk Interpretive Matrix and the Miriwoong Seasonal calendar and film to give you some ideas on what you can produce for your chosen region.The following has been provided to assist you in researching information:

• Go to the Indigenous Weather Knowledge site at  http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/index.shtml and explore the different regions.
• Look at the calendars for each of the regions noticing the differences and similarities.
• Look at the Brambuk region and see how people, homelands and seasons are represented through the interpretive matrix http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/brambuk/images/brambuk_matrix3.jpg
• Look at the Miriwoong Calendar at http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/miriwoong/index.shtml and see how Country, seasons and connections are represented.

Regional characteristics

In small groups select an Australian region of significance to you in your lives and identify the following elements:

1.  Aboriginal Nation name/s
2. Boundaries of Country
3. Weather<
4. Geology
5. Physically image the Country, waters
6. Animals
7. Plants
8. Astronomy
9. Aboriginal spiritual and cultural connection to the chosen Country/Torres Strait Islander spiritual and cultural connections to Place
10. Changes over time: think of 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, present
11. Impact of changes over time
12. Land management over time