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  2. Torres Strait Islanders - Wikipedia

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    For Torres Strait Islander people, singing and dancing is their "literature" – "the most important aspect of Torres Strait lifestyle. The Torres Strait Islanders preserve and present their oral history through songs and dances;...the dances act as illustrative material and, of course, the dancer himself is the storyteller" (Ephraim Bani, 1979).

  3. Torres Strait Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Torres Strait Islands are an archipelago of at least 274 ... hawksbill and flatback sea turtles. The Torres Strait Islands may ... Many Kauraraig also live there ...

  4. Torres Strait - Wikipedia

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    The strait links the Coral Sea to the east with the Arafura Sea and Gulf of ... but many more Torres Strait Islander people live outside of Torres Strait in ...

  5. Meriam people - Wikipedia

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    Melanesian Meriam people are an Indigenous Australian group of Torres Strait Islander people who are united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and live as skilled hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans on a number of inner eastern Torres Strait Islands including Mer or Murray Island, Ugar or Stephen Island and Erub or Darnley Island. [1]

  6. Kaurareg - Wikipedia

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    Kaurareg (alt. Kauraraiga, plural Kauraraigalai, Kauraregale) is the name for one of the Indigenous Australian and Papuan groups collectively known as Torres Strait Islander peoples, although some identify as Aboriginal Australians. They are the traditional owners of Thursday Island (Waiben) as well as a number of Torres Strait Islands.

  7. Badu people - Wikipedia

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    Badu Island in particular, with the publication of Ion Idriess's novel The Wild White Man of Badu (1950), gained a reputation as an island of headhunters, though the practice was widespread throughout the Torres Strait.

  8. Mua people - Wikipedia

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    Mua people (Mualgal) alternatively the Moa, are an Indigenous Australian Torres Strait Island people based on Moa (Banks Island).According to Alfred Cort Haddon their lifestyle, culture, myths and kinship networks overlapped closely with those of the Kaurareg on neighbouring Muralag, while also forming an integral part, linguistically and culturally, with all Western and Central Island peoples ...

  9. Australian Aboriginal identity - Wikipedia

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    4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander; 4.4% identified as both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. However, the net undercount of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was 17.4%, [57] and the estimated Indigenous population is around 952,000 to 1,000,000, or just under 4 per cent of the total population. [55]