ESSAY (Aboriginal Belief Systems & Spirituality) Religion informs every aspect of Aboriginal life, giving a spiritual understanding of the environment, of human beings and their place in that environment and of relations between people. The foundation of Aboriginal religious belief if the "Dreaming." The dreaming is a complicated concept with multiple meanings but for the Aboriginal people, the dreaming represents the beginning of life and nature, the beginning of all patterns and cycles associated with …showed first 75 words of 684 total…

…showed last 75 words of 684 total…and language. Despite this, these two variants of missionaries all kept the children away from their parents and tried to give them civilized values. Although at the time the European thought this would be positive for the aborigines, but it was actually a negative and degrading experience. Therefore, the policies and missionaries could have been described as cultural genocide because they were intentionally aimed at erasing the practice and transmission of aboriginal culture and identity.