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Performance of Aboriginal song and dance in the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.. Indigenous music of Australia comprises the music of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, intersecting with their cultural and ceremonial observances, through the millennia of their individual and collective histories to the present day.
The Ngaanyatjarra made a claim to native title, and on 29 June 2005 their lands were the subject of the largest native title determination in Australian history, according to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma, [26] when a Federal Court hearing presided by Justice Michael Black ruled on the claim to ...
In 2013, an ACT Government anthropological report was released, which concluded that the struggle between various Aboriginal groups for the mantle of Canberra's "First People" was likely to remain uncertain. The report concluded that evidence gathered from the mid-19th century onward was too scant to support any family's claims.
Electric Fields – electronic music duo; Fitzroy Xpress – country rock group from Fitzroy Crossing; Ilkari Maru – rock band from Central Australia; Iwantja – rock band from Indulkana, South Australia; King Stingray [6] – punk rock band, descendents from members of Yothu Yindi; Kuckles – Broome band featuring Jimmy Chi
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As with other Aboriginal groups in South Australia, the Ngadjuri led nomadic lives and were decimated by introduced European diseases, [9] such as measles and smallpox, as colonisers took over their water and land resources, leading to their dispersion [10] A unit of police were established at Bungaree Station as early as 1842. [11]
Indigenous music is a term for the traditional music of the indigenous peoples of the world, that is, the music of an "original" ethnic group that inhabits any geographic region alongside more recent immigrants who may be greater in number. [1]
The practised patrilocal residence, and their marriage arrangements were based on for class system. [20] Father's father, father, son, son's son and their brothers inherited a totem (tjukur/tuma) which bore associations with specific topographical features of the landscape that evoked the movements of the creative being in their dreaming. [20]