Welcome to the Noongar's life

Who were them? They were re an Aboriginal Australian people from the Arrernte lands, at Mparntwe (Alice Springs). They are known as very friendly

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Paula Molero

Marta Partearroyo

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aranda_people

http://www.encyclopedia.com/places/australia-and-oceania/australian-and-new-zealand-political-geography/aranda

http://aboriginalart.com.au/culture/arrernte.html

http://www.walkingcountry.com.au/the-trail/the-region/the-arrernte-people

http://arandasstory.blogspot.com.es/

http://es.unionpedia.org/i/Arrente

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Religion

Art

Death and afterlife

Largely, though not exclusively, restricted to ritual contexts, the arts include body decoration, ground paintings, incised sacred boards, singing and chanting, dramatic acting, and storytelling. In the 1930s many Western Aranda very successfully took up watercolors and that tradition remains strong. Today many Aranda are connoisseurs of country and western music, as well as adventure movies. Quite a few play guitar and some are learning to make their own videos.

Traditionally, death was followed by burial and this still occurs, usually with Christian ceremony. At death one aspect of the spirit can be completely annihilated, although it may first wander about as a ghost. Others say that this spirit ascends to the sky, sometimes to be with God, but sometimes to be banished to an evil place. Another part of one's spirit, which originally came from a totemic ancestor, goes back into the ground to become the land. This spirit may be reincarnated in another human being, but this is not regarded as personal survival or immortality.

• Beliefs. Cosmology is marked by a division Between sky and earth. They have many myths or "dreamings", which tell of totemic ancestors who originally created the universe and everything within it. Some of these myths are secret and known only by a restricted group of men or women. There are also many noncreationist, nonesoteric stories suitable for children and public narration.
• Ceremonies. One historically important ceremony, which has become less significant, is the "increase ritual"—a rite guaranteeing the fertility of a local area associated with particular totemic beings. Initiation ceremonies included circumcision and subincision (slitting the ventral surface) for boys and introcision (ritual defloration) for girls.

Dialects and languages

Story

People know a few details odf their story.

Aborigines have lived in central Australia for at least 20,000 years. The Aranda were nomadic hunters and gatherers when Whites first came to Central Australia in the 1860s, but from the 1870s onward they steadily moved into a more sedentary (though still mobile) way of life on missions, pastoral stations, and government settlements. Relations between Aranda groups and their neighbors (mostly Western Desert people) have varied from friendship, alliance, and intermarriage, on the one hand, to enmity and hostility on the other. Relations with European interests have also varied greatly over the years, ranging from cattle stealing to voluntary settlement and work on missions and cattle stations. European attitudes and practices towards Aranda people have also varied greatly—from tolerance to bigotry, from laissez-faire to paternalism, and from protectionism to murder. They are now experiencing the effects of the relatively new policy of self-determination, which has caused their lives to be increasingly affected by Aboriginal bureaucracies.

• To the Arrernte, their language goes to the core of who they are; their cultural identity, their belief systems and their social order. Rather than speaking it, they are it.
• The language is one of the most common indigenous languages spoken. With as many as 25% of the Alice Springs population this as a first language, many businesses in Alice Springs require their staff to learn some basic Arrernte so as to communicate with the large numbers of Arrernte speaking people.
• The language is also taught in most primary schools to students of all nationalities as a compulsory language as well as an option at most secondary schools (High School).
• The ancestors of the Aranda all spoke one or more of the Arrernte group of languages/dialects. "Aranda" is a simplified, Australian English approximation of the traditional pronunciation of the name of Arrernte .

Where do they live?

Sub-divisions

The name Aranda refers to the following distinct groups (or "mobs"):

-Central Aranda, from the township of Alice Springs only.

-Eastern Aranda, from the Aranda lands east of Alice Springs.

-Western Aranda, from the Aranda lands west of Alice Springs, out to Mutitjulu and King's Canyon.

However, an alternative, narrower use of the word Aranda refers only to people from the lands north of Alice Springs.

• The Arrernte (pronounced Ah-runda) are indigenous inhabitants of Arrernte lands, the land occupied by the township of Alice Springs (Mparntwe), like we said before, and surrounding areas of the Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. Some Aranda live in other areas far from our homeland, including the major Australian cities and overseas.

People call them in many different ways, and we know some of them:

-Aranda -Paroola

-Aranta -Wongkatieri

-Arunda -Arrernte

-Arunta

-Arranda

-Arinta

-Urrundie

-Wonggaranda

-Ilpma

-Ulpma

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