This impact of dispossession undermined the basis of Indigenous culture/ traditions. Land was intrinsic to the Indigenous cultures, having a deeply symbiotic relationship built as a foundation of their traditions. In the indigenous culture, the spirit of the ancestral beings who formed the land, binds the individual to the spirit's home country and bestows the power of that ancestral being within him or her. With this power, comes the commission to look after the land and to keep it healthy through prescribed songs, dances, ceremonies, rituals and stories. The land in turn cares for the people and provides them with food and shelter.
