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"My Island Home'' became special for Aboriginal people as it spoke about familiar feelings for desert  and saltwater together in a way that evoked a since of unity and commonality between the two people.

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Music, art and dance are important to Aboriginal culture as it was a way to communicate. Children were taught this at a very young age. Aboriginals had a song for every occasion.

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Music, Arts, and dance are important parts of Aboriginal culture as they were used as ways to communicate.

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more people in today's society are trying to learn aboriginal languages, and even schools are taking on this project

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Helping non-indigenous people comprehend their culture.

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no matter who it is, everyone and everything  is family, even if they are not blood related

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Passes on their culture through music and language

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The Warumpi's Band version of "My Island Home'' was released in 1987 on the Go Bush album.

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Directs people to places

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Aboriginal songs always have meaning, mostly about longing for how they used to live

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In the mid 1990's Christina Anu released her own version of 'My Island Home' and it became a successful to mainstream audiences.

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The earth is our mother. We are born from. Mother Earth looks after us by providing us with meat, bush tucker and water. We always slept on Mother Earth.

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In 1995 Neil was awarded APRA song of the year.

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We believe Mother Earth looks after us an we in turn must look after

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You don't need a house when you are alive. You can move and you can leave it behind. It's all bush as far as you can see, but to me, it is my home, my ngura,

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Our parents, grandparents and relatives always say that we are connected to everything and everyone.

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The trees are our family, all the animals that live with us are our family.

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Living in the bush we are communicating with everything. Everything is ours so we should all live in harmony.

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We are aware of everything around us being connected to the land gives us that amazing feeling.

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There is more than 250 languages many years ago but now we only have about 50 languages

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Indigenous people use smoke in ceremonies to clean the evil spirits away. This is not quite possible any more, especially in summer, because of fire hazard laws. Schools like Kent Road Public School have inherited the cultures, and have tried them out, this is a step to aboriginal cultures surviving

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Small Language groups always lived together. They might meet other tribes that speak their language once or twice a year.