Top 10 Aboriginal bush medicines
THE CHINESE DRANK tea from sweet wormwood leaves to cure chills and fevers, Egyptians used a herb from a plant called khella to help pass kidney stones, and all around the world, leeches were placed on sores to stop blood from clotting. While these traditional methods of treatment are well known natural cures, Australian bush medicine, much like the bush itself is still very much a mystery. "A lot of information is lost," says Dr Evelin Tiralongo a pharmacist and expert in complementary medicine from Griffith University in Queensland. According to Evelin most Aboriginal medical treatments were derived from food. Eucalyptus leaves can be infused for body pains and fevers and chills. When Aboriginal people did fall sick, they used plants in a variety of ways to quell their ills. Professor Joanne Jamie, a medicinal chemist from Macquarie University, in Sydney has compiled a database on Aboriginal plants. 1. (Melaleuca alternifolia) 2. (Eucalyptus sp.) 3. (Terminalia ferdinandiana) 4. 5. 6.
American English Dialects
North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns Small-Scale Dialect Map The small map below is the same as the Full-Scale Dialect Map that follows, but shows the entire width of the map (on most monitors). 24-Aug.-2010 Click on any part of this map to move to the equivalent part of the Full-Scale Dialect Map. Full-Scale Dialect Map Instructions For many of the cities or towns on this map, you can listen to an audio or video sample of speech of a native (more specifically, someone who was raised there, though not necessarily born there, and whose dialect clearly represents that place). Use the scroll bars to move around on this map, or, even simpler, start at the tiny map above and click the country (U.S. or Canada) that you want to look at. The entire map is clickable, taking you to the list of samples for that state or province. Help! Data from the Atlas of North American English (ANAE) Map Notes 3: R-dropping: See Map 7.1 in ANAE chapter 7. Other Sources 1. 2. 3. / and /
Before Time - Aboriginal history - My Place
Indigenous Australian belief systems explain that creator ancestral beings gave birth to the people, and also shaped the lands and waterways, giving them spiritual significance. A scientific view hypothesises that Indigenous Australians have lived in Australia for more than 40,000 years, having arrived by boat from southern Asia. Scientific evidence shows that Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples have lived in the area for more than 30,000 years. Although the number will always be based on an informed guess, it is believed that approximately 750,000 Indigenous people populated Australia from the coasts and islands to the inland deserts at the time of colonisation. Indigenous people lived in more than 300 language groups based on their strong links, both physical and spiritual, to particular areas of land, their countries. Each spoke their own dialect or language. Some territories were more densely populated than others. People travelled within their country and sometimes to other countries.
Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe « Etymologikon™
Posted by Teresa Elms on 4 March 2008 This chart shows the lexical distance — that is, the degree of overall vocabulary divergence — among the major languages of Europe. The size of each circle represents the number of speakers for that language. Circles of the same color belong to the same language group. All the groups except for Finno-Ugric (in yellow) are in turn members of the Indo-European language family. English is a member of the Germanic group (blue) within the Indo-European family. So why is English still considered a Germanic language? The original research data for the chart comes from K. Like this: Like Loading...
Eora - Mapping Aboriginal Sydney 1770-1850
Eora This is a story of the Eora, created through a close and innovative interrogation of the European records of early colonisation. Eora - Intro It is customary for some Indigenous communities not to mention names or reproduce images associated with the recently deceased. Members of these communities are respectfully advised that a number of people mentioned in writing or depicted in image in the following pages have passed away. This story may also contain words and descriptions that might be culturally sensitive, not normally used in certain public or community contexts. Eora: 1770-1850 History, every history student learns, is written by the victors. This is a story of the Eora, created through a close and innovative interrogation of the European records of early colonisation. Eora - Chapter 1 Chapter 1: Eora They lived here in the place we call Sydney, now a city of over 4 million people. They identified themselves as Eora (pronounced ‘yura’), meaning simply ‘the people’.
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I COME FROM a part of France that likes to think of itself as separate from the rest of the country: Brittany. So much so that if I had been born 50 years earlier I would probably have been speaking Breton rather than French with my immediate relatives. But with time and “unifying” language policies, Breton has faded in the background and French has taken over. Each pin on Ethnologue‘s map represents one of the 7,099 languages spoken today in the world and, although the majority of them (two-thirds) are from Asia and Africa, I am able to locate Breton among the multitude of yellow pins and find its profile. Because of an incredible revival, Breton’s status says “shifting”, but 25 years ago, it probably said, “endangered“, like a third of all languages today. To see specific language names and obtain details, you just need to hover over the pins and click to check out the language’s profile. What language do YOU speak?
Aboriginal history
Barani Barani is an Aboriginal word of the Sydney language that means 'yesterday'. The Barani website examines the histories of people, places and events associated with Sydney's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Visit Barani The first Sydneysiders Aboriginal peoples have always lived in Sydney . There are about 29 clan groups of the Sydney metropolitan area referred to collectively as the Eora Nation. Following the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, the British encountered Aboriginal people around the coves and bays of Port Jackson. Despite the destructive impact of first contact, Gadigal culture survived. Sydney’s inner suburbs have long been a magnet for Aboriginal peoples seeking work opportunities, shelter and connections with community and family. There was a growing political activism within Sydney’s Aboriginal community over the 20th century, which led to the development of support systems and facilities for urban Aboriginal people. Barani: a living history Links
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