In what was the first indigenous ceremony documented by white people on this land in 1795, Judge advocate David Collins was invited to witness a 10 day tooth avulsion ceremony, the Yoo-lanhg-erah-ba-diang, held on the Cadigal ritual ground near Farm Cove in Sydney, a key part of this coming of age ceremony was the embodiment of the spirit of the dingo in the young boys initiated. This was a ceremony that no doubt had been conducted generation after generation for thousands of years. The dingo is intrinsically linked in the deeper fabric of the first peoples spirituality on this land, it features in the creation stories of many tribes, from the rugged mountain ranges of the north west to the sweeping coastal plains of the south east. They are spiritual totems to many tribes and are in turn held in the highest degree of respect to their corresponding skin families. In a more practical sense, dingoes were utilised by first nations tribes people, especially women, as hunting partners, guardians and bed warmers for their children. In the desert country dingoes were prized as water diviners, being able to locate water sources across vast expanses of seemingly inhospitable land. Dingoes also feature in timeless dreamtime creation stories, this fact alone attests to the length of time they have been here and the respect accordingly afforded them by certain tribes. 'In Aboriginal mythology, the travels of ancestral dingoes map out songlines, graphemic maps tracing pathways across the continent from one water source to the next. Their stories tell of the formation of mountains, waterholes and star constellations. In some accounts, dingoes emerged from the ground as rainbows; in others they dug the waterholes and made waterfalls as they travelled through the landscape.' To the Djab Warrung nation in South West Victoria their creator being Bunjil was aided by his two companion dingoes in the creation of the land and all of the people. To the Minyungbal tribe in Southern Queensland, the dingoes were companions of a great warrior being and their chase of a kangaroo created the coastal mountain ranges, and after they were killed, they were buried in the mountains and became the twin peaks known as the cougals.

The remains of Dingoes have been found buried with people and decorated to a degree that shows the very highest reverence.