Australia's Aborigines and lost culture- Katie Lamp

When we watched the video about the Aborigines in Australia, it made me think about the idea of lost culture. The elders look after the land in order to preserve it here, because they feel they are the only ones who can take care of the country. There are still records of these people and their life, such as the cave paintings that depict what used to be there before these people were driven out by disease, etc. When people from other countries came and drove out the Aborigines from their home, there was no chance of these people being able to record their lives anymore. The Aborigines' knowledge has not been written down, but rather it was stored in the minds of the group of people known as the "Library". While this was probably an effective way to maintain their knowledge when they could pass down the information from generation to generation, it is no longer effective because these people are a dying breed. When the narrator of the video was discussing how the elders are the only ones left who have this knowledge, it made me think about lost culture and how this culture is fading because the only ideas of these people that can be communicated to others anymore can only be found in the cave paintings. The ideas in the cave paintings seemed interesting, and it made me wish that someone besides the person who made this video had taken an interest in these people earlier when more of them were still around.