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Student book questions
3.5 Water and Indigenous Australians
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Check your learning 3.5
Remember and understand
1 Where did most Aboriginal peoples live in Australia before Europeans arrived in 1788?
2 Give examples of traditional and modern Aboriginal water management.
3 How are Indigenous and non-Indigenous views of water resources different?
4 Both Aboriginal peoples and Europeans built dams along the Murray River. What impact did each
have?
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Apply and analyse
5 Look carefully at Source 4.
a What is the spiritual value of this place to the local Indigenous people?
b What value might this site have to a tourist?
6 Look carefully at Source 2.
a Sketch the symbols you think represent water holes and running water.
b Why were maps such as these important to Aboriginal communities?
c Why do you think maps like these are still being produced by Indigenous Australians?