I am sure a lot of this stuff is being made up as they go...a lot of places were subject to competing tribes both claiming....different languages, and different names for the same place.
welcome to country...sometimes, other times a warrior party , or a lone warrior with spear attacking.
There is a certain mystique being given to " elders"...some elders are not worthy of the term, just like there is a lot of muidle aged (and old) dickhead white people !
They are supposedly great custodians of the land...the area I am in the early white settlers reckoned large areas of scrub were sparse as the fires had killed a lot of the trees. Some burning was opportunistic, and not the much fabled cool burning that they are supposed to have done. I could go on, but they , just like all humans, were certainly not without fault.
And I didn't even cover the marrying practices, or revenge system.
