Aboriginal people’s use of ceremony, song, stories, art and dance in their attempts to confront colonisation throughout the 19th century.

“They [Aboriginal people] confronted enormous physical and philosophical challenges by drawing on their own culture, and their reactions, adoptions and adaptations were shaped by existing conventions and cosmologies.” (Roberts in Atkinson, 2006, p. 107). Discuss this statement with reference to the “Dreaming” and Aboriginal people’s use of ceremony, song, stories, art and dance in their attempts to confront colonisation throughout the 19th century.