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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.
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 ...
Local Aboriginal people were involved in its creation and decorated the cave with their hand prints. The collection also includes a map showing the traditional tribal areas, an extensive assortment of rubbing stones, boomerangs , stone axes, grinding and milling stones and other tools, predominantly from two major donors, the Keenan and the ...
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 ...
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.
Aurukun / ær ə ˈ k uː n / [2] is a town and coastal locality in the Shire of Aurukun and the Shire of Cook in Far North Queensland, Australia. [3] [4] It is an Indigenous community.In the 2021 census, the locality of Aurukun had a population of 1,101 people, of whom 997 (88.7%) identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people.
May be derived from the local Aboriginal word for 'black ants'. [31] or. May be derived from an Aboriginal word, Kabi language, kauin kauin, a variant of kutchin indicating red, from the red soil area drained by Kin Kin Creek. [32] Koonung Koonung Creek: Victoria: A tributary of the Yarra River: Koort-koort-nong: Victoria: A parish of the ...
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