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Aboriginal Songlines Stories

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are diverse, with many different cultures, languages and ways of sharing knowledge. Some stories and knowledge are public; others are for particular people or times. This worksheet shares general information and a made-up learning story. It is not a real Songline or a traditional story.

Stories connected to Country

Songlines are part of the knowledge and cultures of Aboriginal peoples. They are sometimes called Dreaming tracks. Songlines can connect places through stories, songs and other knowledge passed on by Aboriginal custodians. They may teach about Country, such as places, water, plants, animals, language and responsibilities for caring for Country. Songlines are not all the same, and not every story is for everyone to share.

Lachlan and Harper learn

At an outback station, Lachlan and Harper joined an Aboriginal community guide on a walk. The guide shared a public learning story about looking after places. First, they stopped at a waterhole and talked about using water carefully. Next, they noticed birds resting in a shady tree. Last, they looked at a rocky hill from a safe distance and spoke about caring for the land. The guide explained that this made-up walk was not a real Songline. Songlines belong to Aboriginal cultures and are shared by their custodians in ways that communities decide.

1.Choose the best answer. What can Songlines connect?
  • Places through stories, songs and knowledge
  • Only towns with roads
  • People to television shows
2.Name one thing Songlines may teach about Country.
3.True or false? All Songlines are the same, and every story is for everyone to share.
TrueFalse
4.Put the stops from Lachlan and Harper’s made-up walk in order by writing 1, 2 and 3.
5.Match each stop in the made-up walk to what Lachlan and Harper noticed or discussed.
  • Waterhole
  • Shady tree
  • Rocky hill
  • Birds resting
  • Use water carefully
  • Look from a safe distance and care for the land
6.True or false? The walk in the story is a real Songline.
TrueFalse
7.Who decides how Songline knowledge is shared?
8.Write one respectful question a visitor could ask an Aboriginal community guide about caring for Country.

3 printable pages

  • Aboriginal Songlines Stories, page 1 of 3: Stories connected to Country, Lachlan and Harper learn

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  • Aboriginal Songlines Stories, page 2 of 3: 2. Name one thing Songlines may teach about Country.

    Page 2

  • Aboriginal Songlines Stories, page 3 of 3: 8. Write one respectful question a visitor could ask an Aboriginal community guide

    Page 3

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