Elements and Performance Criteria
- Apply understanding of traditional cultural frameworks when working with Aboriginal people
- Integrate the relationship to the land into daily work routines
- Determine relationships of Aboriginal objects, features and cultural landscapes to Aboriginal beliefs
- Determine the interrelationship of discrete Aboriginal sites to cultural frameworks
- Acknowledge and respect traditional knowledge, belief systems, customs and cultural practices in managing Country
- Recognise traditional Aboriginal social frameworks
- Recognise different language groups and general lore/laws and customs
- Identify extended family structures and clans in physical and geographical locations
- Relate totemic structures and associated stories about ancestral beings from the Creation Periodto landscape features and sites
- Identify social structures that define the social positions, behaviours and obligations in kinship names, sections and networks
- Identify the kinship system for determining roles and responsibilities, marriage unions, ceremonial relationships, funeral roles and behaviour patterns with other kin
- Determine marriage relationships resulting from the union of two moieties or skin names
- Recognise and respect gender roles
- Relate Aboriginal spirituality to the landscape
- Acknowledge and record Aboriginal beliefs that determine Aboriginal cultural protocols
- Define the connection between spirituality and the land in local and trans-local terms of identity, culture and food
- Relate the historical and present living environments to Dreaming stories and cultural knowledge
- Recount cultural language and customs embedded in the relationship to the land and Aboriginal sites
- Define the relationships of Creation stories, oral histories, kinship and totems to the cultural landscape
- Recount the sense of belonging to the land and culture embedded in landscape in culturally appropriate ways
- Express elements of spirituality in ceremony, rituals, stories, dance, song, art and language
- Relate the interactions between Dreaming, traditional beliefs and ceremonies to Aboriginal sites work
- Record the effects of cultural disconnection with the land, spirituality and ceremonial expressions of culture
- Record impacts of disintegration and disconnection on Aboriginal sites
- Acknowledge and respect the evolving nature of Dreaming
- Identify and document current trends in mainstream culture and heritage and opportunities and threats to the Aboriginal sites work sector