90 Free Q&A videos about Aboriginal people and their Culture
Welcome to our 90 free Q&A video series about Aboriginal people and their culture. “I have collected these questions over the 50 years while working with the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land. Questions that many Australians have about them and other First Nation people and their culture.
I am old enough now to be a grumpy elder, so I think it is about time I jumped into these challenging conversation boots and all. Hope you enjoy a very different Q&A session. I can be sure that you won’t get this conversation anywhere else.
We originally recorded over 100 of these questions but have only had the $ resources to put 90 of them out.
So, if you like them, please make a donation. We get no government funding for these, and many of the other resources are building. A donation button is at the bottom of each video page.
These videos were originally released weekly in blocks of three. That is the format they now exist in. Have fun. Richard Trudgen
Q&A Week 13: I’ve heard that Aboriginal people say they don’t own the land, the land owns them. What does that mean?
Q&A Week 14: Why don’t Aboriginal people just forget the past and get on with it?
Q&A Week 15: What does it mean when a white person is ‘adopted’ into an Aboriginal clan? Should the person accept?
Q&A Week 16: Weren’t women enslaved or considered second-class citizens in traditional Aboriginal culture?
Q&A Week 17: What educational good can come out of learning an Aboriginal language? What’s the point?
Q&A Week 18: Why do Aboriginal people in remote communities tend to wreck their houses and live in such dirty conditions?
Q&A Week 19: Aboriginal people are always getting free stuff from the government?
Q&A Week 20: Why do Aboriginal people feel they must share things all the time?
Q&A Week 21: Why don’t Aboriginal people in remote communities just move to where there’s work available?
Q&A Week 22: Aboriginal people behave badly, get into trouble with police….why do they always cry ‘poor me?
Q&A Week 23: Why don’t Yolngu parents control their children better?
Q&A Week 24: How can remote Aboriginal communities have a sustainable future when they rely so heavily on government funding…
