Aborigines lived their lives with unquestioning acceptance of all things, trusting the land to provide. I have come to learn through my reading that they were anything but backward. Yes, they were childlike, almost backward children but they were intelligent with sharp accurate memories and a vast store of instinctual knowledge. They relayed the stories passed down to them through the generations. Reciting their tales of ages old memory of the people and land, linking them to a long past impossibly remote which came alive in their memories and words. The aborigines are as much a part of the land as the land is a part of them and as long as we hear and remember their stories and as long as their words have meaning, then this ancient land will survive.