Native+People+Story

//By Heidi Hustveit// The Native people that are living on many of the Island’s in Oceania and around in the whole Australia are the Aborigines. Today there are almost 460 000 Aborigines that not just live on one place in Australia, but all around in Australia. My name is Kala, and I’m one of the women in an Aborigines tribe. The name Kala means fire, because of an old woman that lived in this tribe. She was the first person in this tribe to find out how the Aborigines were going to benefit the fire. This woman isn’t just an accidental woman; she was my mother’s great- grandmother. So I’m very honoured to have that great name. The different employment in the tribe between woman and men is dissimilar. All the men are hunting, while the women give birth and are working very hard. Many of the women are getting married away to older men, powerful men, and the men often gets many wives. Therefore doesn’t a younger man get married that easy, and a war starts often because of this. I have also been in a situation like this, because my father found a man to me and gave me away to him. He is a powerful man, who I have in eight years been married to. We also have a girl, who is now seven years old now. My mother said that she was just like me when I was born, brown hair and beautiful brown eyes. I have told that I have a father and a mother, and they are bough alive. They are bough in good health in their age of 60 and 63 years old. Beyond a mother and a father I also have one sister that is 20 years old, that means that she is five years younger than me. My sister has also got married away like all the other women in the tribe and me, and luckily she is just like me happy with the husband and their live. Things must be good between them because they are expecting their first baby next month, and we are all were excited. Especially my seven years old daughter is very excited because now she gets her first cousin, and there are not that many children who is around her age in the tribe. Everybody is either much older or just a little baby. Like I told.., the men’s job in the tribe is hunting. My husband is also hunting like the other men in this tribe, and he never came home empty handed. He is not the only man that never comes home empty handed, because all the aborigine men are very good at hunting. There are few men that are better than our men at hunting. When they come home again from the hunting all the women and children are cooking the day’s bag. Because my daughter is seven years old, she have started to come with me and preparing the food. Beyond this the women also wash clothes and take care of the children. Agila was a woman in our tribe that worked very hard in her home. She helped everybody if they needed help, and she had five children to take care of. She was just like a sun and everyone cared about her. Agila worked so hard that she became over worked, and died last summer. That was a very big loss for the whole tribe, and she is a woman that will be remembered for a very long time. One thing that I happened for a long time ago, but that I remember very well today is one time when my daughter disappeared and no one found her before after a day. It was winter and the whole tribe was moving to one another camping ground. My daughter Arika was about 5 years old and she was that old that she understood that something was going to happen. When the day was there everybody had packed all their stuff and was ready to go. My husband started to walk a bit sooner then me so I thought that Arika was with him, but then I took wrong. Because when I met my husband when I had walk for an hour Arika wasn’t there. The feeling that I got in that moment will I always remember, because that wasn’t a good feeling. My whole body was shaking and I couldn’t say or do a thing because I was I shock. Where was Arika? What had happened? How could that happen? There were extremely many questions that I wanted to find an answer at, but I didn’t know what to do. When the whole tribe found out that Arika was missing everybody started to search after her. People weren’t just searching in a few hours, but one whole day before somebody found her. It was some men in the tribe that had found her under a tree together with a little baby kangaroo that was hurt. The little baby kangaroo had brooked one leg so he couldn’t stand. At the first I didn’t think about the baby kangaroo because all that matters was that my little daughter was ok. Later we took care of the kangaroo’s broken leg, and took good care of him. Today exactly this little kangaroo are living with out tribe, and he is now two years old. They have been very good friends since after that episode when Arika helped him with his broken leg.
 * Kala; the Aborigines woman and her life in the tribe **