How To Use Aborigine In A Sentence

Bruno had also bought calamine lotion and after our shower we patterned ourselves all over our bites like Aborigines painted for a corroboree.
Taken from their families and forced to live in "white" orphanages, three mixed-race aborigine children escape, traveling 1500 miles back home, using the title fence as their guide. Cinematical
It was the boobook owl, mopoke, a totem being to the Arrernte Aborigines of these arid lands along the Macdonnell Ranges to the west of Alice Springs. Wildwood
Their study of the Aranda Aborigines of Central Australia is still widely quoted.
They are spoken in the Torres Strait, and among Aborigines in northern Australia.

The aborigines do hunt bears sometimes, attracted by the high profits.
However, for the 100,000 or so Aborigines (50,000 of them under the age of twenty) who are living mostly in remote or extremely remote communities, the story is one of unrelieved tragedy and horror.
The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
The aborigines of the country, driven like the Bhils and other autochthonic Indians, into the eastern and south-eastern wilds bordering upon the ocean. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Is he in league with the aborigines?
Puli subprefect Hiyama Tetsusaburo was the first prominent Japanese official to marry into an Aborigine polity. Archive 2008-10-01
Their journey coincides with that of an Aborigine boy on his walkabout - a 10-day ritual where boys are left to fend for themselves, an event that initiates their entrance into adulthood.
The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
The distant aborigines who did the trapping would trade with others who would take the furs to the bayside posts.
For their part, the Aborigines were not only good stockmen on the station, but drawn successfully to droving, with its better pay and travel, until trucks gradually supplanted the drover after the Second World War.
The Northern Territory is the only region where Aborigines have comprehensive land rights, granted almost by accident 30 years ago. Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
For instance Central Australian Aborigines never sold churingas, because they were central to their belief system.
By the end of 1642 they felt that the company must protect the northern aborigines from the "brutal" Chinese. How Taiwan Became Chinese
Doug was given the nick name Abo (in those days a slang term used for an Aborigine). Doug Nix
Windschuttle is no historian -- he has no formal training in the discipline whatsoever -- but he made a name for himself some time ago as a far-right polemicist who found fault with some footnotes by Australian historians on the subject of the treatment of Aborigines. Archive 2009-12-01
Although Buddy did not know the word "sententious," the people he described were the embodiment of it -- licensed bores, as all aborigines seemed to be (so he implied), who had a proverb or a biblical passage for every reversal in life. Beard
This is due to somewhat less favourable circumstances, to a nobler and less manageable race of aborigines; the land perhaps more beautiful, is by the very character of its beauty less subduable. Great Britain and Her Queen
I can’t find a primary source for Canadian infant mortality broken down by race, but I found several pages that claim that the infant mortality rate for First Nations I believe that’s what they call the aborigines is 1.5-2 times the rate for the general Canadian population, which is about what it is here. Regarding the US’s High Infant Mortality Rate
Sleeping Indian specializes in top-end wool hunting gear, and is named after a mountain in Wyoming rather than after a somnolent aborigine. Petzal's Picks For New Hunting Fashions
As Noel kept up a commentary on his life in the aborigine reservations, he also showed pictures of how tin shanties and flimsy tents were the ‘homes’ of the aborigines for the better part of the 20th century.
It is home to a proud, ancient people often referred to as the aborigines of Europe.
Common to much of her writing at this time is an appreciation of the culture and traditional life of the Aborigines.
Despite Windschuttle's denials, the rise of pastoralism ushered in an era of heightened racial animus towards Aborigines.
I was familiar with "koori" in Melbourne and became aware that it didn't cover all aborigines at the same time I heard "Murri", still while in Melbourne. Languagehat.com: ABORIGINES.
A word attributed to Wuywurung is the Australian slang term yabber 'talk,' which is probably from Wuywurung yaba 'speak'; another possibility is mia-mia, a synonym for gunyah 'a temporary shelter of the Aborigines, usu. a simple frame of branches covered with bark, leaves, or grass,' about which you can read in exhaustive detail here:In the Australian National Dictionary 1988 we are told that it comes from Wathawurung and Wuywurung. Languagehat.com: JINDYWOROBAK.
Nobody lived any more like aborigines in ‘geographical communities’: the community of the 21st century was one-touch, broadband and ‘virtual’.
Lehman makes several accusations, such as an argument that Windschuttle doesn't understand the Aborigines ‘attachment to the land through its flora and fauna, and he speculates baselessly about Windschuttle's motivations.
And when it's Russians dressed up as faux Australian aborigines or Americans ice dancing a Moldavian folk dance, it's REALLY not a sport. Winter Olympics
Spencer and Gillen photographed and detailed aborigines dressed as animals, emitting animal cries to promote fertility.
As in all countries where the gods were individualised, the men of Celtic lands, whether aborigines or invaders, had toiled along the steep ascent from the primitive vague sense of being haunted to a belief in gods who, like Esus, Teutates, Grannos, Bormanus, Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times
It buys argan nuts from Berber women in Morocco and sandalwood oil from Australian aborigines. Skin-Deep Gains for Amazon Tribe
Practically the only work Australian Aborigines once had was as stockmen but the vast majority of those were thrown out of work by the introduction of a minimum wage law in 1966.
There is a heavy use of earthly colours of tree-bark brown and earth red in Aboriginal art as the Aborigines are deeply influenced by nature.
Their journey coincides with that of an Aborigine boy on his walkabout - a 10-day ritual where boys are left to fend for themselves, an event that initiates their entrance into adulthood.
She is an aborigine, sprung from the soil, yet close to the soil, and impossible to lift from the soil. THE GREAT INTERROGATION
Holistic cultures like those of Native Americans or Australian aborigines usually see human beings as part of a wider, natural universe in which everything is alive (a concept often called animism) and the life force is everywhere. Offerings Without an Altar
Yet even as aboriginal prosperity decreased over the 1640s, the company managed to retain aborigines 'cooperation. How Taiwan Became Chinese
I expect that things were no better for the Aborigines of Australia.
In the earliest days of which the aborigines retain a tradition, and to which they give the name of the _alcheringa_ or dream times, their remote ancestors roamed about the country in bands, each band composed of people of the same totem. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
It was particularly important for the governor to show the delegates his social distance from the Chinese, and indeed the Dutch frequently used landdagen to gain aborigines 'cooperation in the effort to control Chinese smuggling and piracy. How Taiwan Became Chinese
From the pre-historic days of aborigines to the present day of robots and computers, the ideas of managing available resources have been in existence in some form or other.
The local aborigines had refused to join the expedition declaring the mountains to be the domain of the gods.
That same year the station was also selected for the distribution of rations and blankets to the Aborigines.
We will explore the martial culture of the aborigines, who were headhunters engaging in frequent intervillage wars. How Taiwan Became Chinese
An aborigine looking at a musket is interesting but irrelevant. A Sociological Phenomenon
There's an old black man, an aborigine, with long, tangled dreadlocks, kneeling at the edge of the pit.
In the whole of Tasmanian history, only one trooper was ever killed by Aborigines.
It includes remains such as Aboriginal bones, regarded as stolen goods by Aborigine communities in Australia today.
On the Murrumbidgee River, especially on the lower parts [in the Riverina district of south-central and southwestern New South Wales], rumours of the existence of this animal are more than usually rife, and there the aborigines far and wide describe the animal as inhabiting the waters. Archive 2009-03-01
When Masha'ika, the earliest recorded immigrant, reached Súlu Island, the aborigines had already developed to such a stage of culture as to have large settlements and rajas or _datus_. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
Usage Many Aborigines understandably dislike the use of 'Aborigine' or 'Aboriginal' since these terms have been foisted on them and can carry pejorative overtones: they prefer to use the word for 'person' from a local language. Languagehat.com: ABORIGINES.
Native porcupine is eaten by the aborigines, who declare it to be budgeree.
The pack consists of a casket containing the Aborigine Flag, a number of didgeridoos, as well as various tools used by the Aborigine people who spent their lives as hunters and gatherers in order to survive.
From the turn of the century onward, she shared the life of the aborigines.
Well, although we associate the boomerang with Australian Aborigines, many cultures used boomerang-like equipment in prehistoric times.
Most Taiwanese and aborigines speak both a local language and the national language.
Aborigines and other non-European Australians are subsidiary to Ward's analysis.
John Lyons/The Wall Street Journal Aveda is used to dealing with small farmers; its network of supply relationships includes buying argan nut oil from Berber women and sandalwood oil from Australian aborigines. Aveda's Skin-Deep Alliance in Brazil
Even today aborigines in the outback habitually go walkabout to experience what they call the ‘songlines’.
They co-exist peacefully with people of other castes and tribes that include the Yeravas, Kurubas, the aborigines called Kudiyas, the lower caste called Poleyas.
Equipped with company licenses, they introduced large-scale commercial hunting to Formosa, using pitfalls and snares. 15 In order to profit from Taiwan's natural resources, the company had thus begun to remove the aborigines from the deerskin economy. How Taiwan Became Chinese
Bushmanship was the talent, akin to that of Aborigines, for finding one's way through the bush, relying only on natural signs; to be bushed was to lose one's way, perhaps figuratively as well as geographically.
'Surely,' adds Dr Buist, 'coincidences such as these can neither be fanciful nor accidental; they carry us far back beyond the ages of those we call the aborigines of Britain, as the pyramids and sculptured stones of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852
The IPA is “Small government libertarian think tank” who blame the whales for getting in the way of innocent japanese harpooners, aborigines for getting in the way of the legitimate colonial business of the King of England, forests for impeding access to all that lovely woodchip and Dr Bob Brown for global warming, if such a thing exists. Cheeseburger Gothic » None dare call it treason…
Police marksmen with Aborigine trackers were hunting for two dingoes or wild dogs who attacked the boys on Fraser Island, scene of a spate of attacks in recent years.
The book says nothing about relations between the government and Aborigines in New South Wales.
The film also inadequately deals with the situation confronting local Aborigines on the mission.
Tatar, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, or Polynesian sailors who drifted, intentionally or accidentally, to the Pacific coast in some unrecorded and prehistoric past, and from whom the men we call our aborigines probably are descended, sent back to Asia no tidings of what they had found. Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682
Almost always Aborigines 'noodled' or fossicked on mine dumps for missed pieces of opal.
He said Einfeld displayed symptoms of "hypomania", demonstrating grandiose ideas about his altruistic pursuits including the plight of Aborigines and the Jewish/Palestine conflict. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Aborigines who worked as drovers and stockmen on cattle stations were largely ignored until the appearance of works such as Born in the Cattle.
Governments themselves, who have found it necessary, sometimes, to prohibit fire – arms at out – stations, and have been compelled to take away the assigned servants, or withdraw the depasturing licences of individuals, because they have been guilty of aggression upon the Aborigines. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
My impression is that these terms koori, etc are not very widely known and used in the general population and "aborigine", "aboriginal" or "black people" are the most common. Languagehat.com: ABORIGINES.
He produces a newspaper report of the court testimony of a tribal Aborigine which, he claims, clinches his argument.
Dr. Willerslev found the DNA he needed in a 100-year-old hair sample from an Aborigine who lived in a relatively remote area of southwest Australia. Clues to Man's First Migration
Well, that's when the Neanderthals were around in Europe and I'm not sure whether the Aborigines would have got to Australia by then but it was a long time back.
While I admire De-Bono ideas he does seem to be a bit of a control freak - witness his statement that the Aborigines have been playing the didgeridoo wrong for 3000 years.
In Australia, Aborigines have already had several sets of remains reburied.
The art of making these rafts was practised by most Aborigines in Australia from the rivers to the coasts.
In fact, various Indian tribes around the world, the Australian aborigines, and other cultures have legends handed down from their ancestors that sound like the creation / Flood accounts in Genesis.
The Aborigines are the native inhabitants of Australia.
Lin Ching-tai, an aborigine from the Atayal tribe who plays the lead role of a Seediq tribal chief, had never acted previously.
Aborigines used dingoes as hunting dogs, and valued them as companions.
In Australia "Aborigine" is commonly abbreviated to "Abo" and that is held by some to be offensive too Tongue Tied 3
I have checked Oxley's reports and nowhere do they mention that 100 Aborigines or twenty Europeans were killed.
The first marriage in South Australia between an Aborigine and a European was solemnised on 27 January 1848.
The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
Sleeping Indian specializes in top-end wool hunting gear, and is named after a mountain in Wyoming rather than after a somnolent aborigine. Petzal's Picks For New Hunting Fashions
When they killed sheep or cattle the pastoralists retaliated by killing the Aborigines.
The word aborigines is usually associated with primitive people now, but it really just means "original". Orrologion
It was the boobook owl, mopoke, a totem being to the Arrernte Aborigines of these arid lands along the Macdonnell Ranges to the west of Alice Springs. Wildwood
Spencer and Gillen photographed and detailed aborigines dressed as animals, emitting animal cries to promote fertility.
The visitor can ponder over the boomerangs used by aborigines at the time of Cook.
There he became active in the One People of Australia League and, reportedly, was the first Aborigine to join the Liberal Party.
Aborigines living in the coastal Kimberley region of Australia's top end sometimes dance a corroboree re-enacting the arrival of dingoes to Australia.
It is a curious circumstance, in fact, that the animals and plants of the Northern Hemisphere are not only as well adapted to live in the Southern Hemisphere as its own autochthones, but are in many cases absolutely better adapted, and so overrun and extirpate the aborigines. Essays
In education we find the same disjunction between Aborigines who have moved into mainstream Australia and those still living in the remote communities.
'Alcheringa' is an aboriginal word meaning "of the past", and the aim of this series was to show how Aborigines lived their traditional lifestyle.
Aborigines originally used the gnarled trunks and roots of local camphor trees as a base for their carvings.
The aborigines believe that the skeleton of each dead moon drops into the sea and becomes the shell of the chambered nautilus.
Many hiking trails were opened up by the Aborigines, chiefly for hunting purposes.
Australian Aborigines are known to discard a kangaroo carcass if the animal does not have sufficient fat to make it worth slaughtering. More on Tierney, Taubes and saturated fat | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
The battue, a hunt in which bushes are beaten to drive out the game (a method used by the Aborigines), proved to be much more successful.
A word attributed to Wuywurung is the Australian slang term yabber 'talk,' which is probably from Wuywurung yaba 'speak'; another possibility is mia-mia, a synonym for gunyah 'a temporary shelter of the Aborigines, usu. a simple frame of branches covered with bark, leaves, or grass,' about which you can read in exhaustive detail here:In the Australian National Dictionary 1988 we are told that it comes from Wathawurung and Wuywurung. Languagehat.com: JINDYWOROBAK.
Aborigines and white men alike hunted bilbies for their fur in earlier times.
It is a rich heritage gradually disappearing as Aborigines become urbanized, Europeanized and victimized.
Dr. Willerslev and his colleagues needed DNA from an Australian Aborigine who wouldn't have carried genes from European settlers. Clues to Man's First Migration
This movie, like Ana Kokkinos' Head On a few years ago, shows that cultural difference in modern Australia is not just a matter of the Anglos and the Aborigines, but also the Anglos and the immigrant-descended European communities.
The Arawakan aborigines were about in the cultural status of our own Gulf tribes, subsisting chiefly by agriculture and practicing the simpler arts, but unfitted by their peaceful habit to withstand the inroads of the predatory Carib, whose very name is synonymous with "cannibal". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Even seminal fluid has been treated as a love philtre or prophylactic in witchcraft, and administered by Aborigines to dying or enfeebled members of their community.
This year, the Australian parliament's first order of business was to make an apology on behalf of the nation to the "stolen generation", Aborigines who were removed from their families and ancestral lands to be "anglicised" (made to behave more like white people) for over one hundred years, until 1969. Slackbastard
None of Manne's authors have unearthed an observation of Aborigines starving or even malnourished.
When spears and boomerangs thrown against the walls in derision failed to bring the whites out, the Aborigines stormed the hut and tried to unroof it. Wildwood
Enslavement of Aborigines through forced labor.
My impression is that these terms koori, etc are not very widely known and used in the general population and "aborigine", "aboriginal" or "black people" are the most common. Languagehat.com: ABORIGINES.
As far as dogs are concerned the interesting thing to me about dogs is that it's always been said that the dingo has a commensurable relationship with Aborigines.
The selves jostle for prominence in these pages: the mono-browed Neanderthal shoulders aside axe-wielding Homo sapiens; the neurasthenic intellectual trips up the bedaubed aborigine. Excerpt: Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Russian skaters 'Aborigine routine causes upset in Australia: Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, tipped for Olympic gold in Vancouver, wear brown costumes with Aboriginal motifs The week is almost over.
“as the race appears to have been farther advanced in civilization than their successors, whom we call aborigines, they probably had better means of transportation than bark canoes.” Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology
The Aborigines made a highly interesting exhibition of skill and dexterity in the use of the boomerang and throwing spears.
As in his biography of Macarthur, the Aborigines are incidental, minor problems for his hero to overcome.
In Tasmania aborigine hunters led a nomadic life to take advantage of the seasonal food supply in different regions.
‘We have yet to see a kangaroo,’ says Mr Rogers after two days in The Centre - and neither had he seen Aborigines playing didgeridoos.
Its a term for half Australian half Aboriginee people in the movie ... similar to Metis, which is why my husband now calls me "creamy". angdesj Conversations With My Wife That Disturb Me
The Aborigines would then spear cattle for food and a cycle of violence might follow.
Our guides led us into a cave with walls covered by ancient petroglyphs, including symbols still used by Aborigines today.
The great cause of conflict was Aborigines taking cattle and sheep from newly established grazing runs.
What's really been great is just the sheer pride aborigines get from watching the film.
North American aborigines had developed a system of middlemen for transporting furs to bayside posts.
From around 1880 State protection on reserves was introduced, though some Aborigines were employed as stockmen and housemaids on rural properties.
Some are concerned about the issues of the Irish or the Aborigines or the convicts while others are more interested in the advance of society leaders, government officials or the squattocracy. SA Latest News
In more than a quarter of a century of land rights there has been no significant commercial development in the southern NT where Aborigines own half the land, despite ample opportunities in tourism, pastoralism and horticulture.
The 2001 Australian film, ‘Serenades’, told the story about the Afghan cameleers in outback Australia and their encounter with Europeans and Aborigines.
Evidence for this impact consisted of legends from American aborigines and the Carolina Bays - assumed to be impact craters from the comet.
The medium had been too strong for them, they had taken to it like aborigines to the bottle.
Moreover, the tremendous thunder-storms ran up and down the wires and melted the conductors; the monsoon winds tore the teak-posts out of the sodden ground; the elephants and buffaloes trampled the fallen lines into kinks and tangles; the Delta aborigines carried off the timber supports for fuel, and the wires or iron rods upon them to make bracelets and to supply the Hindoo smitheries; the cotton - and rice-boats, kedging up and down the river, dragged the subaqueous wires to the surface. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
He is the only aborigine in the national parliament.
The buzzing sound rose like a din in some inner ear and I thought of the bullroarers of the Australian Aborigines.
It was all washed down with a delicious tea made from the leaves of the sassafras, whose benefits were once known only to the Aborigines.
Aborigines who worked as drovers and stockmen on cattle stations were largely ignored until the appearance of works such as Ann McGrath's Born in the Cattle.
The so-called defense of Angus McMillan’s Bushy Park, and innumerable one-sided skirmishes elsewhere in Gippsland during the 1840s, for which the squatters’ justification was usually some form of legitimate reprisal for thefts of cattle, or fictitious attacks on white settlers (even a few real ones), effectively combined to wipe out most of the Aborigines of East Gippsland within a span of ten years, roughly extending from 1840 to 1850. Archive 2009-03-01
Baptists established missions to Aborigines and the urban poor.
The Flinders Ranges provide a home to Aborigines, farmers, miners and pastoralists.
Far from being wandering hunter-gatherers, some Aborigines lived in villages, traded and farmed.
In Budapest, Mr. Shields—who believes he is the world's only Aborigine pole dancer—wore feathers in his vest and hair and performed to modern aboriginal music, an attempt to "fuse" the aboriginal bird dance with pole dancing in a "very spiritual dance. Despite Its Bad Reputation, Pole Dancing Appeals to Men in a New Way
If a painting had depth it meant that it still embodied all the mythic material that was important to the Aborigines themselves.
Australian aborigines
The term aborigine, of course, does not designate a single ethnicity. Orrologion
As to entertaining all this _cohue_ of aborigines, Caroline might spare her trouble and her money, as far as the girl is concerned. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
Pursuing missionary work among the Aborigines, he established a native reserve at Poonindie, near Port Lincoln in SA.
How would it have first appeared to early European visitors and what might the Aborigines have had to say about it?
Why is steatopygia absent among, for example, hunting-gathering Australian aborigines?
Then some more native parties in short kimonos that showed their aboriginees punctured the near-horizon, and me and High had to skip back into Father Axletree's private boudoir. Options
He has made films about Australian aborigines and local environmental issues.
Society as a whole has placed undue and excessive trust in the ability of political measures to solve the problems of the Aborigines.
In July 1870 very heavy rains fell flooding many of the creeks and nearly twenty Aborigines drowned when the Kopperamanna Creek flooded.
When the first Aborigines arrived in Australia, at least 60,000 years ago, primitive humans all lived as hunter-gatherers; the beginnings of agriculture in the northern hemisphere were not yet apparent.
Several close relations occur in Australia, where they are generally known as ‘pigfaces ' (nothing to do with pigs or faces, it seems, but possibly a corruption of the Afrikaans name big-vys). Aborigines harvested the fruits of these.
Many aborigines died when they came into contact withdiseases.
He hit them with a crash and the jillaroo clung, and Mrs Hutton reversed the crate away and the Aborigines slammed the gate shut. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
After 1730, he developed a series of posts to intercept the aborigines travelling from the west to the Bay.
The use of the terms that I heard told me that these Russian skaters put on a performance of "Primitive People" that offended the primitives (aborigines) of Australia known as the Aborigines, but clearly they are incorporating (nose rubbing, etc.) other non-Australian themes and dancing like grade school kids going "Boonga boonga boonga" as they wave around bones like the cannibals do. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
This is a journey common to the initiates of Tantric cults, Australian Aborigines; even Chinese and Christians.
It's clear that one 'fantasy' is replaced by another (the old aborigine as 'savage' accomplice/support for the colonial/conquest projectiles and today the indigenous histrionic as utopia/dreamworld scenes: necessary appanage of todays projectiles what every they might be?): Of court Zizek's typical nought is that narrator building observances our viewer of the tryst ... but if he sees through the narrator why are his activists identical to us idlers still caught in them? Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)
In Bardi it was always maank ambooriny (= 'black people') or "aborigine" (as noun or adjective) in Aboriginal English. Languagehat.com: ABORIGINES.
The next panel was of Captain Cook at Port Jackson, about to be speared by an Australian Aborigine; the third (a more recent addition) was of Dr. Livingstone at Lake Victoria; and the fourth panel showed Marco Polo standing on the Great Wall of China. Soul
Police marksmen with Aborigine trackers were hunting for two dingoes or wild dogs who attacked the boys on Fraser Island, scene of a spate of attacks in recent years.
Many Aborigines understandably dislike the use of 'Aborigine' or 'Aboriginal' since these terms have been foisted on them and can carry pejorative overtones: they prefer to use the word for 'person' from a local language. Languagehat.com: ABORIGINES.
Aborigines sustained a strong attachment to ties of family and kin, however, and continued to acknowledge a wide range of relationships.
In Australia, the Aborigines associated a giant rainbow serpent with the creation of life, similar to the Aztec belief.
As far as anyone can tell the island was never inhabited by aborigines.
The visitor can ponder over the boomerangs used by aborigines at the time of Cook.
MD: We do aborigine style to catch bait fish for catfishing. Mark R. Collins: Going Catfishing With The Kingston Springs at Austin City Limits
Aborigines were employed almost immediately with the women shepherding the flocks, working the wool scour, carrying light materials to the construction camps and even running the mail between the different stations.
After they are settling in, and Carey is recovering well, a "beachcomber", who reckons he is king of these islands, makes his appearance with a retinue of aborigines. King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale
Statistics seem to bear this out, for Australia's native population has shrunk to about 50,000 full-blooded Aborigines.
Past treatment of the aborigines has been shameful, but these days efforts are made to respect their customs and traditional homelands.
Gilroy states that the Aborigines believed the caves were anciently used as animal lairs, and he cites reported sightings and discoveries of footprints in the region.
It was all washed down with a delicious tea made from the leaves of the sassafras, whose benefits were once known only to the Aborigines.
Classical Victorian evolutionism regarded the archaically living Tasmanian Aborigines - who were dying out before their very eyes - as the living representatives of the early Stone Age.
The struggle over Australian history hinges on the treatment of Aborigines.
It is obvious that Aborigines in many places do carry on with maintaining myth and ritual, custodianship of sacred sites, and attempt to perpetuate fragments of what they believe is a traditional world perception.
Children at the Church Road school stared in awe as Francis performed some of his native Aborigine dance moves before introducing them to one of the world's oldest cultures.
From the turn of the century onward, she shared the life of the aborigines.
Aborigines explain the relationship of the tides and the moon also.
This immature zygote holds it as the ultimate desideratum to consort with the dominate aborigine of the trifurcate variety. The Rolling Stones
How is the Tasmanian experience different to that of mainland Aborigines?
Even seminal fluid has been treated as a love philtre or prophylactic in witchcraft, and administered by Aborigines to dying or enfeebled members of their community.
It's in the middle of the Anmatjere region which has a population of around 1,400, of which nearly 80% are aborigines.
The word "aborigine" is a noun that refers to a person who is aboriginal. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
He was an Aborigine, almost unknown then in Australian first-class cricket, and he was alarmingly fast.
The synergy between the brolga and Aborigines is intriguing, and has evolved over some 45,000 years. Birds Out of Time
Atlantides; which latter, by the way, form also our own aborigines. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
The Aborigines were nomadic hunter-gatherers who did not have a concept of possessing territory or of deterring trespassers from it.
Therefore, to be recorded in folklore implied that the Aborigines also must have been around at the same time.

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