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Aboriginal Australian identity, sometimes known as Aboriginality, is the perception of oneself as Aboriginal Australian, or the recognition by others of that identity. Aboriginal Australians are one of two Indigenous Australian groups of peoples, the other being Torres Strait Islanders .
In her essay "Always was always will be," [1] Indigenous writer, activist and historian Jackie Huggins responds to Australian historian Bain Attwood's [2] "deconstruction of Aboriginality" in his analysis [3] of Sally Morgan's My Place, in addition to identifying problems that Huggins has with the book itself. Here is a brief excerpt from ...
Australian Aboriginal art has a history spanning thousands of years. Aboriginal artists continue these traditions using both modern and traditional materials in their artworks. Aboriginal art is the most internationally recognizable form of Australian art.
The Australian colonies in the nineteenth century created offices involved in managing the affairs of Indigenous people in their jurisdictions.. The role of Protector of Aborigines was first established in South Australia in 1836.
The 1972 Larrakia Petition, sent by the Larrakia people, who are the traditional owners of the Darwin region in the Northern Territory, to Elizabeth II was a landmark document in the land rights movement in Australia.
In the late 1950s, there was an increasing focus on the global need for anthropological research into 'disappearing cultures'. [1] [2] This trend was also emerging in Australia in the work of researchers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, [3] [4] leading to a proposal by W.C. Wentworth MP for the conception of an Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1959.
This usually takes place after initiation.Prior to this, brothers and sisters play together freely. Both these avoidance relationships have their grounding in the Australian Aboriginal kinship system, and so are ways of avoiding incest in small bands of closely related people.
Indigenous Australian self-determination, also known as Aboriginal Australian self-determination, is the power relating to self-governance by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.