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Aboriginal Australians along the coast and rivers were also expert fishermen. Some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people relied on the dingo as a companion animal, using it to assist with hunting and for warmth on cold nights. Aboriginal women's implements, including a coolamon lined with paperbark and a digging stick. This woven basket ...
Woretemoeteryenner (c.1795 - 1847) a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman and sealer; Woureddy (c.1790 - 1842) an Aboriginal Tasmanian warrior and cleverman; Wylie (c.1825 - ?) an Aboriginal guide who stayed with Edward John Eyre in their crossing of the Nullarbor; Yagan (c.1795 - 1833) a Western Australian Indigenous leader of the 1830s
The study of Aboriginal history in Western Australia has been enhanced in recent years by people like Lois Tilbrook [13] who have started collecting information and records on key Aboriginal Families in WA. Due to the comprehensiveness of the records of the Department of Native Affairs, more is known about Aboriginal families than about most ...
The term Aboriginal Australians includes many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years. [11] [61] These peoples have a broadly shared, though complex, genetic history, [62] [40] but it is only in the last two hundred years that they have been defined and started to self-identify as a single group, socio ...
In a 2021 report, the Australian federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water defined traditional custodians as "Indigenous people or nations who have responsibilities in caring for their Country".
Aboriginal labour in the state was recorded as 1,640 men and 706 women, nearly 7% of the total white population of the time, estimated at 30,013 people. June 1881 The first judicial court held on Brockman's station. Four Aboriginal men were tried and sentenced to be transported to Rottnest Island. Aboriginal resistance in the north grew in ...
The Northern Land Council is the land council to the community, responsible for matters under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [9] At the 2021 census, Yirrkala had a population of 657, of whom 79.8% identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. [10]
Smaller truths, such as Aboriginal interclan violence or compassion shown to Aboriginal people by government officials, supplement and add complexity to the central truth but do not refute it. [ 15 ] [ 11 ] In 1995, Read felt the central truth of the Stolen Generations had been established and hoped to focus his work on the smaller truths.