GENERAL INFORMATION: ABORIGINALS:

The Aboriginal flag was designed by Harold Thomas in 1972 and was first flown in Adelaide that year.

The literal translation of the word 'Aborigine' is: the people who were here from the beginning. It is not synonymous (doesn't have the same meaning), as the word 'indigenous' as this means originating in an area (latin: indigena = in (in) + ginere (be born) in a particular place.

There is no written record regarding prehistoric Aboriginal Australia. Knowledge of the past is found in archaeological evidence and Aboriginal oral traditions which have been handed down from generation to generation.

Therefore using reliable dates derived from archaeological evidence, theories of the initial colonization of Australia have been determined....

Australian Aboriginals - Death
Aboriginal Australians - A Brief
     Synopsis of Aboriginal Australians:
     Aboriginal Culture,  Aboriginal
     Dreamtime, Aboriginal Galeries,
     Aboriginal Permits, Aboriginal Land,
     Aboriginal Painting and Caves

Traditional aboriginal culture, throwing
     the boomerang, ritual dancing, starting
     fire with  sticks - that's what lots of
     tourists expect to see in Australia.
     Thanks to movies and books we have
     romantic imagination about ancient
     aboriginal civilisation... 
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and
     Torres Strait Islander Studies
Aboriginal Australia Art, Culture and
     Didgeridoo
Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal Names
     and Storeis
The Stolen Generations - Apology
     Australia
Arnhem Land is primarily a large
     Aboriginal
     reserve which has been occupied by
     Aborigines since the late Pleistocene
Aboriginal Housing Company 
Contact list for Australian Aboriginal
     and Torres Strait Islander Language
     Organisations
Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay Dictionary
Arrernte Dictionary

 

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