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^ This name is the main name used in Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes. [7] Each has a separate article under the name listed there, and alternative names are also listed. In most cases (but not all) the name in the left column "Group name" is also the main name used by Tindale.
There are a number of contemporary appropriate terms to use when referring to Indigenous peoples of Australia. In contrast to when settlers referred to them by various terms, in the 21st century there is consensus that it is important to respect the "preferences of individuals, families, or communities, and allow them to define what they are most comfortable with" when referring to Aboriginal ...
Girramay territory has trees with a variety of bark that could be beaten into a cloth to fashion a "rain shield" and neighbouring tribes such as the Dyirbal and Ngajanji therefore called this device a keramai, their pronunciation of the Girramay ethnonym. [a] wila (cakes of brown walnut) [4]
They affirm that the Nauo tribe was once entirely cut off by a great and powerful warrior, styled Willoo . This formidable individual attempted to possess himself of all the women, and destroyed every man except two, who escaped by climbing into thick trees. Their names were, Karkantya and Poona (two smaller species of hawk). Willoo climbed ...
The creation of the Canning Stock Route in 1906–07 was a brutal time for many Martu people, who were forced to serve as guides and reveal water sources after being run down by men on horseback, restrained by heavy chains and tied to trees at night.
Eura (this is generic for several tribes in which the Ngadjuri were included) Hilleri, Hillary; Manu, Monnoo, Manuley; Manuri (A Nukunu exonym putatively meaning 'inland people') Manuri ('big goanna people', an exonym employed for them by the Nganguruku) Mimbara (the name for the northernmost horde of the Ngadjuri) Ngadluri, Ngaluri
It is a common practice among Australian tribes to have themselves identified according to their respective words for "no". [ 1 ] The Kamilaroi Highway , the Sydney Ferries Limited vehicular ferry "Kamilaroi" (1901–1933), the stage name of Australian rapper and singer the Kid Laroi and a cultivar of Durum wheat have all been named after the ...
The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, eastern Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term Ngarrindjeri means "belonging to men", [1] and refers to a "tribal constellation".