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Oceania is generally considered the least decolonized region in the world. In his 1993 book France and the South Pacific since 1940, Robert Aldrich commented: . With the ending of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands became a 'commonwealth' of the United States, and the new republics of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia signed ...
Australian Aborigines: Australian Aboriginal: 108 60.2 6 22.2 0 0.9 0: R=8, F=3 Hudjashov 2007 [1] Australian Aborigines: Australian Aboriginal: 44 __ __ 0 0 0 40.9 R=6.8 others=52.3 Karafet 2015 [2] Arnhem Land peoples Arnhem Land languages: 60 53.3 10 30.0 0 0 0 5.0 Kayser 2002 [3] Western Desert peoples Wati languages: 35 68.7 0 17.1 0 3.0 0 ...
Reference sources should be cited, particularly if the identification as indigenous may be controversial or contested. This region includes the territories as outlined in the Wikipedia geographical article, Oceania (or the Pacific Ocean), consisting of: the islands of Polynesia, including New Zealand and Hawaii; the islands of Micronesia;
The island culture is heavily influenced today by the presence of about 2000 foreign personnel on the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, which includes rocket launch, test, and support facilities on eleven islands of the Kwajalein Atoll, along with Wake Island and Aur Atoll.
Indigenous Australians were 1.6 times as likely to abstain completely from alcohol than non-Indigenous people in 2012–3. Foetal alcohol syndrome has been a problem, but the rate of pregnant women drinking had halved between 2008 and 2015 (from 20% to 10%). [314] Petrol sniffing has been a problem among some remote communities. [319]
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia at least 65,000 years ago, and over time formed as many as 500 language-based groups . [ 3 ]
Connection to country, "the most fundamental pillar of Indigenous identity", is a difficult concept for non-Indigenous Australians to understand, and disconnection from country has been shown to have an impact on Indigenous peoples' health and well-being. [7] The connection to country is frequently expressed in Indigenous art. [8]
The Indigenous peoples of Australia include Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. This is the main category for articles regarding the Indigenous peoples of Australia. Articles on individual Indigenous Australians belong in Category:Indigenous Australian people.