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Bidyadanga, also known as La Grange, is the largest Aboriginal community in Western Australia, with a population of approximately 750 residents.It is located 180 kilometres (110 mi) south of Broome and 1,590 kilometres (990 mi) from the state capital Perth, in the Kimberley region.
Wiluna has from 200 to 600 Aboriginal people living within its community, depending upon the nature, time and place of the traditional law ceremonies across the Central Desert region. The traditional Aboriginal owners (a grouping known as the Martu) were "settled" as a consequence of the British colonisation process that began in the 1800s. In ...
Descendants of Aboriginal people who survived the massacre form part of the Myall Creek Memorial Committee, which co-manages the site. [2] The Myall Creek Massacre and Memorial Site is important to the local community as a symbol of reconciliation and a place of education.
The Blacktown Native Institute for the Aboriginal community is a key site symbolising dispossession, child removal and enduring links to the land. For some members of the Aboriginal community it represents a landmark in Aboriginal-European relations, symbolising the continuing need for reconciliation and understanding between blacks and whites. [1]
The name Ieramugadu, also spelt Yirramagardu, which is used by the local Aboriginal community to describe Roebourne, is the Ngarluma word [3] for a native fig species that is found in and around the area. [4] The fig is a food source for traditional owners. Archaeological evidence indicates human occupation of the area for over 40,000 years.
In 1980, Kinchela Boys Home was converted into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre ('Bennelong’s Haven') for the local Aboriginal community, a number of whom were former Kinchela boys. In 2012, Kinchela Boys Home was given the highest level of heritage protection available in New South Wales.
The area believed to be the site where the Appin Massacre took place was returned to the local Aboriginal community by an act of Parliament. [b] In 1828, there was some interaction between the Surveyor-General, Thomas Mitchell, and the Gandangara, near Mittagong. Mitchell was supervising road construction.
The island became a focal point for all the communities in the area: people were born, married and died in this place and every one of them is remembered by today's Aboriginal community. [1] For the Aboriginal people of today who have an association to the island, it holds a special place as a symbol of their changing place in history and their ...