ATHMAR.

HABEB

English assessment: “10 CANOES”

Module B: Language, Identity and Culture (ESSAY)

The aboriginals respected their elders in many different ways. At the end of the
film Ten Canoes the younger tribesmen wanted to start war with the desert
tribe who took Nowalingu but Birrinbirrin told them no more war between the
tribes and they listened to Birrinbirrin and didn’t start a war with the other
tribe. Aboriginal elders liked to tell stories to their tribes to teach them lessons
through the story. in Ten Canoes Dayindi was told the story about Ridjimaril
and his younger brother Yeeraparil liking his youngest wife just like how
Dayindi likes one of Minygululu’s youngest wife and he was told this by
Minygululu and Dayindi listened to him through the whole story and Dayindi
takes the advice to be patient for what he wants to get or achieve and for
Dayindi to live the proper way.

The aboriginals respected and loved their land they lived in for several reasons.
Near the start of Ten Canoes where it shows Minygululu’s tribe going hunting
and when the Ridjimaril’s tribe is going to Payback they use a bird’s eye view to
show how the land hasn’t changed over the years. To the aboriginals the Land
was very sacred to them and they wouldn’t destroy it at all. The Aboriginals
believed in reincarnation. When they reincarnate their soul went back to the
tribe’s waterhole and wait till they’re ready to be born again. In Ten Canoes
when Ridjimaril died and after they did the death ceremony and his soul left
his body, they used a point of view shot to show how the soul sent back to the
waterhole. Without the water holes they wouldn’t have been able to
reincarnate and live into another life.

In Ten Canoes the importance of patience is taught all through the movie.
Minygululu tells Dayindi the story to teach him patience and the proper way of
living for life. Near the end of the story the narrator said “Dayindi is now
interested in all of the story. He waits to hear all of the story”. Also in Ten
Canoes it teaches us if we are impatient bad things can happen. For example
when Ridjimaril speared the stranger he’d never saw before without even
asking him if he knew Nowalingu or steal Nowalingu or where she was and it
lead to him dying from the injury he got from being speared in Payback.
In conclusion, it shows how the Aboriginals succeeded as a society and how
they lived the longest out of all indigenous people in the world because they
were taught how to respect their elders and land and the ability to be patient
and to wait for things they wanted. By learning all of these the Aboriginals
became the longest living indigenous in world lasting over 45 thousand of
years. The Aboriginals learned to live the proper