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How far back do the Australian Aboriginal people's history go?
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What is the longest living culture in Australia?
Undoubtedly the Australian aboriginal culture [aborigine meaning native person]. It dates back at least 40,000 years.
How did Aboriginal peoples conserve salmon?
they dont leave any the finish it and also when they eat the salmon they put the bones back in to the water just for recpect
Why aboriginal peoples tended to avoid involvement with the Rebellions of 1837?
Aboriginal peoples tended to avoid involvement with the Rebellions of 1837 because they were discriminated back then. Colonists also displaced Aboriginal peoples and disrupted or destroyed their cultures. Colonists wanted fixed boundaries, surveys, roads, and most importantly, land they could own. These goals conflicted with the culture, lifestyle, and economy of the Aboriginals. After suffering such a big loss from losing their lands and culture, the Aboriginals probably didn't want to invite any more trouble. As a result, they stayed away from the Rebellions of 1837.
What is the Australian aboriginal word for love?
I remember reading this years ago in a book I found while in Australia. The word I read for love was 'Yoorana'. Although there are dozons of dialects so there are many many different words depending on who you ask.
What are the faces on both sides of the Australian dollar note?
The Australian One Dollar note was withdrawn from circulation from 1984 after it was replaced by the One Dollar coin. The One Dollar note featured Queen Elizabeth II on the front, and a number of Aboriginal motifs on the back (no faces).
Are carnations native Australian plants?
No they were imported, The carnation's history dates back to ancient Greek and Roman times,
I have an Albert namatjira painting On the back it says Tribal Country Western Mac Donnell from the watercolour painting by Australian Arante aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira 1902-1959?
I have an Albert Namatjira painting and I don't know if it is a print or original painting. On the back it has this number written in lead pencil 148621 and this type in old cursive lettering. "Tribal Country Western Mac Donnell" from the watercolour painting be Australian Arante aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira (1902-1959)
Who was the first person to set foot on Australian soil?
That's well back in pre-history, when the first of the Australian Aborigines came south. About 50 000 years ago I believe.
How aboriginal art started?
Aboriginal art goes back more then 30,000 years There are examples of different types and styles of aboriginal art all over Australia and evidence of it going back thousands of years so no one has yet been able to quite put their finger on the answer to this question
Which Aboriginal inventor is referred to as Australia's Leonardo da Vinci and his picture is on an Australian note?
The Australian polymer Fifty Dollar note released from 1995 onwards, has David Unaipon (Inventor, preacher & author) on the front, and Dame Edith Cowan (Social worker, politician & feminist) on the back.
How did peoples lives change during the old stone age?
It is unknown how many people lived in the old stone age. This was way back in history.
Why is native Australian called aboriginal and not original?
The category "Aboriginal Australians" was coined by the British after they began colonising Australia in 1788, to refer collectively to all peoples they found already inhabiting the continent, and later to the descendants of any of those peoples. Until the 1980s, the sole legal and administrative criterion for inclusion in this category was race.In the era of colonial and post-colonial government, access to basic human rights depended upon your race. If you were a "full blooded Aboriginal native ... [or] any person apparently having an admixture of Aboriginal blood", a half-caste being the "offspring of an Aboriginal mother and other than Aboriginal father" (but not of an Aboriginal father and other than Aboriginal mother), a "quadroon", or had a "strain" of Aboriginal blood you were forced to live on Reserves or Missions, work for rations, given minimal education, and needed governmental approval to marry, visit relatives or use electrical appliances.[5]This racial litmus test was assumed in the two references to Aboriginal people that used to exist in the Constitution of Australia. Section 51(xxvi) gave the Commonwealth parliament power to legislate with respect to "the people of any race" throughout the Commonwealth, except for the people of "the aboriginal race," who were subject to-and only to-the laws of the particular state in which they lived. Section 127 provided that "aboriginal natives shall not be counted" in reckoning the size of the population. After both of these references were removed by a 1967 referendum, there was no longer any explicit reference to Aboriginal peoples in the Australian Constitution. Since that time, there have been a number of proposals to amend the constitution to specifically mention Indigenous Australians.[6][7]The change to Section 51(xxvi) gave the Commonwealth parliament the power to make laws specifically with respect to Aboriginal peoples as a "race". In the Tasmanian Dam Case of 1983, the High Court of Australia was asked to determine whether Commonwealth legislation whose application could relate to Aboriginal people-parts of the World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983 (Cth) as well as related legislation-was supported by Section 51(xxvi) in its new form. The case concerned an application of that legislation that would preserve cultural heritage of Aboriginal Tasmanians. It was held that Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, together or separately, and any part of either, could be regarded as a "race" for this purpose. As to the criteria for identifying a person as a member of such a "race", the definition by Justice Deane has become accepted as current law.[5] Deane J said:It is unnecessary, for the purposes of the present case, to consider the meaning to be given to the phrase "people of any race" in s. 51(xxvi). Plainly, the words have a wide and non-technical meaning [...]. The phrase is, in my view, apposite to refer to all Australian Aboriginals collectively. Any doubt, which might otherwise exist in that regard, is removed by reference to the wording of par. (xxvi) in its original form. The phrase is also apposite to refer to any identifiable racial sub-group among Australian Aboriginals. By "Australian Aboriginal" I mean, in accordance with what I understand to be the conventional meaning of that term, a person of Aboriginal descent, albeit mixed, who identifies himself as such and who is recognised by the Aboriginal community as an Aboriginal.[8]While Deane's three-part definition reaches beyond the biological criterion, it has been criticised as continuing to accept the biological criterion as primary.[5] It has been found difficult to apply, both in each of its parts and as to the relations among the parts; biological "descent" has been a fall-back criterion.[9]Definitions from Aboriginal AustraliansEve Fesl, a Gabi Gabi woman, wrote in the Aboriginal Law Bulletin describing how she and other Aboriginal people preferred to be identified:The word 'aborigine' refers to an indigenous person of any country. If it is to be used to refer to us as a specific group of people, it should be spelt with a capital 'A', i.e. 'Aborigine'.[10] While the term 'indigenous' is being more commonly used by Australian Government and non-Government organisations to describe Aboriginal Australians, Lowitja O'Donoghue, commenting on the prospect of possible amendments to Australia's constitution, was reported as saying:I really can't tell you of a time when 'indigenous' became current, but I personally have an objection to it, and so do many other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. [...] This has just really crept up on us ... like thieves in the night. [...] We are very happy with our involvement with indigenous people around the world, on the international forum [...] because they're our brothers and sisters. But we do object to it being used here in Australia.[11]O'Donoghue went on to say that the term indigenous robbed the traditional owners of Australia of an identity because some non-Aboriginal people now wanted to refer to themselves as indigenous because they were born there.[11]Definitions from academiaDean of Indigenous Research and Education at Charles Darwin University, Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik, has publicly lectured on the ways Aboriginal Australians have been categorised and labelled over time. Her lecture offered a new perspective on the terms urban, traditional and of Indigenous descentas used to define and categorise Aboriginal Australians. She said:Not only are these categories inappropriate, they serve to divide us. [...] Government's insistence on categorising us with modern words like 'urban', 'traditional' and 'of Aboriginal descent' are really only replacing old terms 'half-caste' and 'full-blood' - based on our colouring.[12] She called for a replacement of this terminology by that of "Aborigine" or "Torres Strait Islander"-"irrespective of hue".[12]OriginsSee also: History of Indigenous Australians The origin of Aboriginal peoples in Australia has been the subject of intense speculation since the nineteenth century. Until recently[when?], no theory of migration had gained wide acceptance. Genetic studies had shown the Aboriginal peoples to be related much more closely to each other than to any peoples outside Australia, but scholars had disagreed whether their closest kin outside Australia were certain South Asian groups, or instead, certain African groups. The latter would imply a migration pattern in which their ancestors passed through South Asia to Australia without intermingling genetically with other populations along the way. [13] A 2009 genetic study in India found similarities among Indian archaic populations and Aboriginal people, indicating a Southern migration route, with expanding populations from Southeast Asia migrating to Indonesia and Australia.In a genetic study in 2011, researchers found evidence, in DNA samples taken from strands of Aboriginal people's hair, that the ancestors of the Aboriginal population split off from the ancestors of the European and Asian populations between 62,000 and 75,000 years ago-roughly 24,000 years before the European and Asian populations split off from each other. These Aboriginal ancestors migrated into South Asia and then into Australia, where they stayed, with the result that, outside of Africa, the Aboriginal peoples have occupied the same territory continuously longer than any other human populations. These findings suggest that modern Aboriginal peoples are the direct descendants of migrants who arrived around 50,000 years ago.[14] This finding is supported by earlier archaeological finds of human remains near Lake Mungo that date to 45,000 years ago. The same genetic study of 2011 found evidence that Aboriginal peoples carry some of the genes associated with the Denisovan peoples of Asia; the study suggests that there is an increase in allele sharing between the Denisovans and the Aboriginal Australians genome compared to other Eurasians and Africans. The Papuans have more sharing alleles than Aboriginal peoples. The data suggests that modern and archaic humans interbred in Asia before the migration to Australia.[15]Groups of Aboriginal AustraliansMain article: List of Indigenous Australian group names Dispersing across the Australian continent over time, the ancient peoples expanded and differentiated into hundreds of distinct groups, each with its own language and culture.[16] More than 400 distinct Australian Aboriginal peoples have been identified across the continent, distinguished by unique names designating their ancestral languages, dialects, or distinctive speech patterns.[17] Historically, these groups lived in three main cultural areas, known as the Northern, Southern, and Central cultural areas. The Northern and Southern areas, having richer natural marine and woodland resources, were more densely populated than the less resource-rich Central area.[16]
