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The story originates from the Ngarrindjeri clan of South Australia and tells of two men who went fishing but were greedy with their large catch of bony bream. When a stranger asked for fish, they lied and said they did not catch many. The stranger revealed himself to be the Ngarrindjeri ancestor Ngurunderi and punished them by making all future catches of bony bream inedible due to bones.

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The story originates from the Ngarrindjeri clan of South Australia and tells of two men who went fishing but were greedy with their large catch of bony bream. When a stranger asked for fish, they lied and said they did not catch many. The stranger revealed himself to be the Ngarrindjeri ancestor Ngurunderi and punished them by making all future catches of bony bream inedible due to bones.

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TERM TEST 1

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DATE

Thukeri -The Bony Bream-Part 1


A Dreaming Story from the Ngarrindjeri Clan from the Murray River area of South Australia,
by La La Rankine
A long time ago in the Dreaming, when only Aboriginal people lived in Australia, the
Ngurunderi spirit ancestor came down and created the Ngarrindjeri people and their lands
in what we now call South Australia.
One day, two Ngarrindjeri men left their campsite as they wanted to go fishing in the lake.
They took with them their bark canoe and baskets woven from the long rushes that grew
by the lake. The men liked to fish in Loveday Bay where the water was cool and calm, and
fish were plenty. The most delicious fish of all was the Thukeri (bream).
While they were fishing, the mens wives and children were searching the nearby
bushland, collecting tasty vegetables and edible plants for their evening meal.
Knowing that they had plenty of time in which to catch enough fish for their people, the
two men settled down among a clump of tall reeds, sheltered from the wind. Carefully
they strung their sharp, bird bone hooks onto their fishing lines (nungi) and began to fish.
As the sun began to sink down over the sky, the men stopped fishing and looked down
into their bark canoe to see that it was almost overflowing with beautiful, juicy Thukeri.
They decided that they had enough fish for their people so they paddled the canoe back to
the shores of the lake. Upon their return, the two men noticed a stranger coming towards
them. What did he want with them? Was he hungry? Would he want a share of their big,
delicious Thukeri?
The men were worried. They did not want to share their catch and they hastily used their
woven reed mats to cover the fish lying in the bottom of the canoe so that the stranger
would not know how successful their fishing trip had been.
As the stranger approached the two men, he greeted them and said, I have walked far
today and I havent eaten anything all day. It is growing late and I am hungry. Would
you be able to spare me a couple of your fish?
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Read the text and shade a bubble or write an answer to each question.
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Where does this story originate?

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The Dreaming refers to a time when:


ancestral beings moved across the land
life was created
only Aboriginal people lived in Australia
all of the above

monitoring

What are rushes?


bark
baskets

monitoring

plants

Which fish was the most delicious?

What type of word is searching?


noun
verb
adjective

fabric
questioning

visualising

adverb

What type of food did the women and children collect?


farmed vegetables
farmed wheat
bush tucker
fast food

What were the fishing hooks made out of?


wire
metal
fish bones
bird bones

Why did the men stop fishing?

monitoring

What was the look on the mens faces when they saw the stranger?
anger
exhaustion
amusement
suspicion

visualising

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Which is the odd word?


hastily
quickly

monitoring

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12

anxiously

The mens main goal was to:


feed their people
share food with the stranger

making connections

questioning

speedily
summarising

catch the biggest fish in the bay


hide food from the stranger

Do you think the men will give the stranger some fish?
Why do you think that?

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predicting

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Thukeri -The Bony Bream-Part 2


Slowly the two men glanced at the mats covering the fish hidden in the bottom of the
canoe. Then they said to the stranger, We are sorry brother, but our wives and children
are hungry too. We did not do well today. We only caught a few small fish, barely enough
to feed our people who are depending on us. We cannot give you any.
As he turned to walk away, the stranger glared at the two men. You are lying. There
are more than enough fish in your canoe to feed your people. You have been greedy and
because of this you shall never again enjoy eating Thukeri. And with that he turned and
walked off into the bush.
The two men looked at each other and then stared after the stranger, wondering what he
had meant. Yet they were not too concerned. What could he possibly do? He had gone as
quickly as he had appeared.
Without a further thought, they pulled the reed mats off the fish and began to clean and
gut them by the waters edge. However, as they began to work, they discovered that their
tender, juicy Thukeri were full of thin, sharp bones, making them impossible to eat. The
two men were now truly worried.
What have we done? they moaned. Our families will choke on these bones; we cant
take these fish home to eat.
Shamefully the two men returned to their camp with their baskets of bony fish and told
their families of the stranger and what had happened. The tribal elders told them that the
stranger had really been their spirit ancestor Ngurunderi and that they had displeased
him with their greed. Now their people would be punished forever, unable to eat the
Thukeri.
Whenever the Ngarrindjeri people catch a bony bream today, they remember the story of
the two greedy men and the lesson that the Great Spirit Ngurunderi taught them.

GLOSSARY
Ngarrindjeri (Nurrin jerry) Indigenous nation whose lands are in the Murray River,
Lakes and Coorong area of South Australia
Ngurunderi (Nurrun dairy) Dreaming creator
Nungi (Nun gee) fishing line
Thukeri (Thook er ee) type of fish (bony bream)
Read the text and shade a bubble or write an answer to each question.
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Mark each statement as True or False. Write T or F in the box.

questioning

The men believed they did not have many fish.


The men were concerned about feeding their families.
The men thought the stranger was an evil wizard.
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Why did the men call the stranger brother?


making connections
they thought they were related
that was his name
they were being polite
to make him go away

15

The stranger glared at the men.


This means the stranger was:
angry
short-sighted
squinting

making connections

nearly blind

16

What did the stranger threaten?


questioning
to steal the fish
to go away and never return
to destroy the fish
the fish would no longer be enjoyable to eat

17

How did the men look when the stranger left?


frightened
angry
tired
puzzled

18

Why did the men clean and gut the fish?


monitoring
to look for bones
to check they hadnt been stolen
that is what they always did
they were filling in time before going home

19

Why were the fish impossible to eat?

questioning

20

Who was the stranger?

questioning

21

What is this storys lesson?


dont talk to strangers
crime doesnt pay

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visualising

summarising

always help those in need


dont count your chickens until they are hatched

Put the events in order from 1 to 4.

summarising

The fish were full of bones.


The stranger accused the men of lying.
The men said they didnt have enough fish.
They discover the identity of the stranger.
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What is a glossary?

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The words in parentheses in the glossary:


are definitions
are alternative spellings of the word being defined
show how the word is pronounced
show common spelling mistakes

NUMBER OF CORRECT ANSWERS

questioning

monitoring

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