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  2. Indigenous Australian sport - Wikipedia

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    The Aboriginal Sports Foundation was created in 1969, [2] and The National Aboriginal Sports Awards were first given in 1986. [6] At the 1986 National Aborigines' Day, more than 70 members of the Australian Indigenous community had their sporting achievements recognised.

  3. Woggabaliri - Wikipedia

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    Woggabaliri is a traditional Indigenous Australian co-operative kicking volley game. Described as a kicking game similar to soccer played in a group of four to six players in a circle, the game has been encouraged in schools in New South Wales and Queensland .

  4. List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople - Wikipedia

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    Aboriginal Cricket Team with Tom Wills (coach and captain), Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 1866. This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which Indigenous Australians have been able to break through in some degree.

  5. History of sport in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Aboriginal sport, by contrast, did not exist as a separate compartment of life. The sports imported from Britain were based on notions of a division between work and leisure, something quite foreign to Aboriginal culture. Sport for Aboriginal peoples was inseparable from ritual and daily life; hunting and tracking were part of both work ...

  6. Australian Aboriginal culture - Wikipedia

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    The Yirrkala bark petitions of 1963 are the first traditional Aboriginal document recognised by the Australian Parliament. [51] Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993) was a famous Aboriginal poet, writer and rights activist credited with publishing the first Aboriginal book of verse: We Are Going (1964). [52]

  7. World Indigenous Games - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, the focus was on traditional sports and games rather than on mainstream sports in order to not lose the traditional essence. [3] Canadian mainstream media provided extensive coverage for Indigenous stakeholders during the 2017 WIN Games to give attention to the issues faced by Indigenous groups. [ 19 ]

  8. Category:Indigenous Australian sport - Wikipedia

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  9. Marn Grook - Wikipedia

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    Australian Aboriginal domestic scene depicting traditional recreation, including one child kicking the ball, with the object and caption being to "never let the ball hit the ground". (From William Blandowski's Australien in 142 Photographischen Abbildungen , 1857, (Haddon Library, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge)