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Each camp is a distinct Aboriginal community, based on language and kinship groups. [6] There is a high rate of domestic violence in the NT in general, including in the camps. Prominent anti-domestic violence campaigner and founding member of the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group, 46-year-old R. Rubuntja, was murdered by her partner ...
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.
In North America, typically 3 ⁄ 4 - or 1-ton pickup trucks are used for hauling full size slideout-equipped campers (e.g., the Chevrolet/GMC 2500 through 3500 range, the Ram 2500 through 3500 range, and the Ford F-250 through 350 range), usually with long box bed lengths and sometimes with dual-mounted rear tires for the heaviest camper models.
The site of the community that is now Mount Margaret was founded as a mission by the United Aborigines Mission in 1921, and soon drew Aboriginal people from surrounding areas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] By 1928, after the mission became the central rationing station for the whole district, the WA Government moved the Mount Margaret mission further east.
Hermannsburg was established on 4 June 1877 at a sacred site known as Ntaria, which was associated with the Aranda ratapa dreaming. [3] It was conceived as an Aboriginal mission by two Lutheran missionaries, Hermann Kempe (from Dauban, near Dresden [4]) and Wilhelm F. Schwarz (from Württemberg [4]) of the Hermannsburg Mission from Germany, who had travelled overland from Bethany in the ...
Ngukurr (/ ˈ n ʊ k ər / NUUK-ər, Aboriginal pronunciation:), formerly Roper River Mission (1908−1968), is a remote Aboriginal community on the banks of the Roper River in southern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. A number of different clans and language groups are represented in the town, with Kriol being the main language spoken ...
Wallis often found settlers unwilling to hand over the Darawal people who lived on their stations but, eventually, executing what he later recalled was a "melancholy but necessary duty", [14] he tracked down a group camping under the Cataract River [15] near Appin. According to the local historian Anne-Maree Whitaker, what followed on 17 April ...
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.