Pre Customary Law 1788

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…of oneness with the living world. All of these people were deeply religious. Kinship Each individual belonged to a family but also to a tribe or estate group (Dingle, 1988, 9). The basis of the kinship system was that the Aborigines considered their whole group as family. For example, the terms; Mother, Father, Brother Sister, Uncle and Aunt were extended to everyone in the tribe. A number of tribes were united by shared language, beliefs, customs an