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The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was a royal commission undertaken by the Government of Canada in 1991 to address issues of the Indigenous peoples of Canada. [151] It assessed past government policies toward Indigenous people, such as residential schools, and provided policy recommendations to the government. [152]
The Quandamooka people (Jandai pronunciation: / ˈ k w ɒ n d ə ˌ m ʊ k ə /) are Aboriginal Australians who live around Moreton Bay in Southeastern Queensland. They are composed of three distinct tribes, the Nunukul , the Goenpul [ a ] and the Ngugi , and they live primarily on Moreton and North Stradbroke Islands , that form the eastern ...
The flight of the Yiman deep into the Auburn and Burnet districts may suggest that they had cultural ties with groups indigenous to this region. Linguistic research by Nils Holmer links the dispersal to the Upper Dawson people being part of the Wakka Wakka: a linguistic grouping that also included the Kabi Kabi of the Wide Bay area.
The native peoples of the Pacific coast also make totem poles, a trait attributed to other tribes as well. In 2000 a land claim was settled between the Nisga'a people of British Columbia and the provincial government, resulting in the return of over 2,000 square kilometres of land to the Nisga'a. Major ethnicities include the: Coast Salish peoples
The Kuungkari are an indigenous Australian people of Queensland. They are to be distinguished from the Kunggari. [1] Name
The Mununjali people spoke a dialect, of which a few hundred words have been preserved, of the Yugambeh language.. Knowledge of the grammar and vocabulary was recorded from Joe Culham, son of Coolum known as the "King of the Mununjali", by Margaret Sharpe in 1968 and the Swedish linguist Nils Holmer compiled a grammar and dictionary from Mununjali people in 1978.
The traditional lands of the Iningai lay to the west of the Great Dividing Range as far as the Forsyth Range, [1] Maneroo Creek, and Longreach. Norman Tindale estimated their territory as encompassing an area close to 19,500 sq. miles.
Torres Strait Islanders (/ ˈ t ɒr ɪ s / TORR-iss) [3] are the Indigenous Melanesian people of the Torres Strait Islands, which are part of the state of Queensland, Australia. Ethnically distinct from the Aboriginal peoples of the rest of Australia, they are often grouped with them as Indigenous Australians .