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Annie Isabel Rankine MBE (1917-1972) was the first chair of the Point McLeay community council . [25] Leila Rankine (1932–1993) was a community worker and musician who co-founded the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music. [26] Doreen Kartinyeri (1935–2007) was a Ngarrindjeri elder and historian.
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.
Koonibba was formerly an Aboriginal mission, founded in 1901 by the Lutheran Church on land comprising 16,000 acres (6,500 ha) which they bought in 1899. [3] The mission was established near the traditional lands of the Wirangu, Mirning, and Kokatha peoples. [10] A school was built within a year, [3] with the church following in 1903. The ...
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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are built communities for indigenous Australians within their ancestral country; the communities comprise families with continuous links to country that extend before the European settlement of ...
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 ...
Ardyaloon or One Arm Point, also known as Bardi, is an Aboriginal Australian community town on the Dampier Peninsula, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is located 2,446 kilometres (1,520 mi) north of Perth [3] and the closest populated town is Derby. At the 2016 census, Bardi had a population of 365. [4]
The governments of Australia and Western Australia have supported and funded these communities in a number of ways for over 40 years; prior to that Indigenous people were non citizens with no rights, forced to work for sustenance on stations as European settlers divided up the areas, or relocated under various Government acts.