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The sound of the didgeridoo, the traditional ... instrument of ... Australians, ... the beginning of the Garma Festival. This annual ... of Aboriginal ... is a call to all people to come together in ... . During the festival, ... enjoy the traditional art, dance, music and song of the Yolngu ... , but Garma is not just about the ways that the Yolngu did things in the past. The Garma Festival is also about their future.
Aboriginal Australians like the Yolngu have lived on the ... for over 40,000 years. There were many different tribes each with their own ... . When European ... arrived in the eighteenth ... , though, the Aboriginals lost their ... and many of them died. Luckily, their culture ... and is now an important part of ... life.
Aboriginal Australians believe that everything has a soul or a ... , including the ... and the weather. This creates a unique ... between the people and the land. They tell stories and ... pictures about The Dreaming, the time when the ... began. Aboriginal Australian art is famous not just for the ... boomerangs or ... didgeridoos for tourists, but for ... bark paintings and carefully constructed dot paintings that now hang in ... galleries around the world.
In the Yolngu language, Garma is something that takes place when people from different ... meet to share ... . The festival is held on ... ground in the forest as a way to ... the past and raise ... about the future of Aboriginal Australians. There are traditional ... and didgeridoo performances, but there are also ... to discuss ways of ... in the ... people and their land.
Not everyone can ... the festival. This special ... that brings together the past, present and future is so ... that attendance is by ... only. People can ... through the Garma Festival website.