Dharawal

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/dharawal

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the people classification?Aboriginal Australian linguistic and cultural group
2. What is the sociopolitical organization?Comprised hunter-fisher-gatherer family groups or clans
3. Who were the Dharawal people?They were an Aboriginal Australian group who lived along the southeastern coast of New South Wales, around places like Wollongong, Port Kembla, and Nowra.
4. What did the Dharawal people eat?They ate fish, shellfish, and crustaceans from the sea, and also gathered plants, roots, and tubers from the forests and heath.

Aboriginal Australian: Indigenous peoples of Australia, whose cultures and societies have existed for at least 65,000 years.
Clans: Kinship-based social units that formed the fundamental organizational structure of the Dharawal people.
Hunter-fisher-gatherer: A subsistence strategy characterized by the acquisition of food through hunting wild animals, fishing, and collecting wild plants.