Responsibility to land physically and tangibly derives from and preserves the Dreaming as living religion.
Effect of Dispossession on Aboriginal Spirituality
Separation from the land
Settlement in 1788 caused competing interests for land
50 years after settlement Protectionist policy established, moving Indigenous people to missions which caused isolation and segregation
Deprivation of land results in a loss of independence, culture, identity and spiritual world.
Separation from kinship groups…
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