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Pemulwuy [a] (/pɛməlwɔɪ/ PEM-əl-woy; [2] c. 1750 – c. 2 June 1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug, [3] [page needed] an Aboriginal Australian people from New South Wales. One of the most famous Aboriginal resistance fighters in the colonial era, he is noted for his resistance to British colonisation which began with the arrival of ...
Aboriginal women carrying a child wrapped in pelt cloak, South Australia, c. 1860. Despite efforts to bar their enlistment, over 1,000 Indigenous Australians fought for Australia in the First World War. [179] 1934 saw the first appeal to the High Court by an Aboriginal Australian, and it succeeded.
Dispersing across the Australian continent over time, the ancient people expanded and differentiated into distinct groups, each with its own language and culture. [56] More than 400 distinct Australian Aboriginal peoples have been identified, distinguished by names designating their ancestral languages, dialects, or distinctive speech patterns ...
This list of Australian Aboriginal group names includes names and collective designations which have been applied, either currently or in the past, to groups of Aboriginal Australians. The list does not include Torres Strait Islander peoples, who are ethnically, culturally and linguistically distinct from Australian Aboriginal peoples, although ...
This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages.Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. . Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang, have become widely used in other varieties of English, and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond En
Each story can be called a "Dreaming", with the whole continent criss-crossed by Dreamings or ancestral tracks, also represented by songlines. [8] There are many different groups, each with their own individual culture, belief structure and language. The Rainbow Serpent is a major ancestral being for many Aboriginal people across Australia.
Amanda Laugesen, chief editor of the Australian National Dictionary, through the Australian National University (ANU) tells CNN Travel many Aussie expressions have roots in British English, but ...
Many Aboriginal people use the word business in a distinct way, to mean "matters". Funeral and mourning practices are commonly known as "sorry business". Financial matters are referred to as "money business", and the secret-sacred rituals distinct to each sex are referred to as "women's business" and "men's business". [16] "