Ancient Australian Aboriginal Memory Tool Superior to "Memory Palace" Learning Technique
"In Aboriginal culture, which relies on oral history, important facts like navigation, food sources, tool use and inter and intra tribal political relationships are important for survival. Aboriginal methods of memorizing also used the idea of attaching facts to the landscape, but with added stories that describe the facts and the placement to facilitate recall."
This sounds to me like Oral Histories are as important as the written word.
Like other conquered peoples who were the victims of white supremacy, our native people learned to to live in this country and to control its often hostile environments, so that they lived in harmony with nature. They knew what to eat, and they knew where to find water in a desert.
They had a spoken language, but not a written one. They did not build houses because they were nomadic and trying to incarcerate an Aboriginal is like taking oxygen away from their lungs. They go "walkabout" which is their way of starting fresh somewhere else. Their culture clashes horribly with ours.
They knew how to use fire to tame the landscape and reduce risk of uncontrolled fire. If we had listened to the Aboriginal people on how to back burn the bush successfully, we would never have had the fires that devastated much of my state last year. Those white fellas could take a leaf out of their handbook.
And we treated them like animals, taking away their children and abusing the women for sex. I am disgusted at the way whites thought that they were so superior.....by their conduct they proved just the opposite.
Aboriginal culture is slowly making a return in my country as the native owners are acknowledged and shown the respect that white land thieves took away from them only a couple of hundred years ago. I hope they can all regain some dignity and respect because if we cannot give them back what we took away from them, (and not just their land)....recovery starts with self respect, so they have to learn to love themselves again after hundreds of years of being treated like second class citizens in their own country. They have so much to teach us....
