enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Welcome to Country - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Country

    The welcome, extended on behalf of the Noongar people, was intended to mirror the visitors' own traditions, while incorporating elements of Aboriginal culture. [9] Walley recalled that [ 10 ] Māori performers were uncomfortable performing their cultural act without having been acknowledged or welcomed by the people of the land.

  3. List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of...

    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

  4. Australian Aboriginal culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_culture

    Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime and other mythology. Reverence and respect for the land and oral traditions are emphasised. The words "law" and "lore", the latter relating to the customs and stories passed down through the generations, are commonly used ...

  5. Ngunnawal language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngunnawal_language

    Ngunnawal/Ngunawal and Gundungurra are Australian Aboriginal languages, and the traditional languages of the Ngunnawal and Gandangarra.Ngunnawal and Gundungurra are very closely related and the two were most likely highly mutually intelligible.

  6. Noongar language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noongar_language

    Noongar (/ ˈ n ʊ ŋ ɑːr /), also Nyungar (/ ˈ n j ʊ ŋ ɡ ɑːr / [a]), is an Australian Aboriginal language or dialect continuum, spoken by some members of the Noongar community and others.

  7. Ngunnawal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngunnawal

    In 1826 many Aboriginal people at Lake George protested an incident involving a shepherd and an Aboriginal woman, though the protesters moved away peacefully. [ 8 ] Historical records of Australia record the last " full-blooded " Ngunnawal person, Nellie Hamilton, dying in 1897, however, this is disputed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...

  8. Australian Aboriginal English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_English

    Deadly is used by many Aboriginal people to mean excellent, or very good, in the same way that "wicked", "sick" or "awesome" is by many young English speakers. [18] [16] Deadly Awards (aka Deadlys) were awards for outstanding achievement by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This usage is not exclusive to Aboriginal people.

  9. Koori - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koori

    The Koori region "Koori" comes from the word gurri, meaning "man" or "people" in the Indigenous language Awabakal, spoken on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. [2] On the far north coast of New South Wales, the term may still be spelt "goori" or "goorie" and pronounced with a harder "g". [9]