In preliterate aboriginal societies, songs and legends are important ways of transmit ting community norms, morals and history. In aboriginal society, family and community memories are preserved by oral tradition.
在無文字的原住民社會，歌謠及神話是傳達他們族群規範、倫理跟歷史的重要方式，藉著口傳，原住民社會裡，家族及族群的記憶被保留下來了。