Aboriginal Culture

To Aboriginal Australians the land is not just the soil or rock or minerals, but the whole environment: the land, the water, the air, and all the life they support. Woman and man, the animals and plants, all the elements, the sun, the moon, the earth and skies: all are linked by spirituality, culture and country. This is known as the Dreaming.

Australia has several hundred language groups, each aligned with Spirit Ancestors of the Dreaming. These Spirit Ancestors are commonly symbolised, as totems of native Australian animals such as the kangaroo, emu, snake and others.

Being related to one place and one creature means being related to all as the Dreaming is everywhere on earth. The Dreaming means we humans are not separate from the environment, but indivisibly united with it. Still today Aboriginal Australians see themselves as part of the land, and the land as part of them.

South Australia is the perfect place to connect with this ancient living culture.