what shelter did Cathy freeman live in
The suffix "up" used on the end of some aboriginal place names in Australia means "near water".
The suffix "up" used on the end of some aboriginal place names in Australia means "near water".
Before Europeans arrived in Aiustralia, the aboriginees were a nomadic people. Moving from place to place in order to find food etc., Hence their shelters would be very temporary.
well, I know that some children had white names as the government forced them too
The Aboriginal people did not stay in one place for long, so they never set up permanent shelters. Sometimes they slept on platforms they built. When it was cold, they sometimes built temporary shelters close to fires in order to stay warm.
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In the 60's we called them "bomb shelters."
I wonder if you're thinking of the'Anderson' shelters.
For a comprehensive list of some Aboriginal tribal group names, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indigenous_Australian_group_names
Some ideas for shelter names are:"Pets are Us""Furry Friends Haven""Fur Magic""Little paws-Big Hearts"
Aboriginal shelters were simple temporary lean-tos made of bark, branches and twigs, and known as humpies or mia-mias.
a bomb shelter