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A corroboree is a generic word for a meeting of Australian Aboriginal peoples. It may be a sacred ceremony , a festive celebration, or of a warlike character. A word coined by the first British settlers in the Sydney area from a word in the local Dharug language , it usually includes dance, music, costume and often body decoration .
In 1871 there was an enumeration of the Indigenous population within the limits of Canada at the time, showing a total of only 102,358 individuals. [33] From 2006 to 2016, the Indigenous population has grown by 42.5 percent, four times the national rate. [34]
In Indigenous North American populations the frequency of type "A" ranges from 16% to 82%. [135] This suggests again that the initial Indigenous Americans evolved from an isolated population with a minimal number of individuals. [136] [137] The standard explanation for such a high population of Indigenous Americans with blood type O is genetic ...
Thus, the Koori population is younger in demographic, with the median age of the New South Wales Koori community being 22, in contrast to 38 for the non-Koori population. [49] In New South Wales, 7.6% of the Indigenous population are profoundly or severely disabled, compared to 5.6% of non-Indigenous individuals, and this gap is widening. [50]
The Bidjigal (also spelt Bediagal, [1] Bejigal, [2] Bedegal [3] or Biddegal [4]) people are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are modern-day western, north-western, south-eastern, and southern Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. The land includes the Bidjigal Reserve, Salt Pan Creek and the Georges River.
The ethnonym Murrgin gained currency after its extensive use in a book by the American anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner, [1] whose study of the Yolngu, A Black Civilization: a Social Study of an Australian Tribe (1937) quickly assumed the status of an ethnographical classic, considered by R. Lauriston Sharp the "first adequately rounded out descriptive picture of an Australian Aboriginal community."
The Yugambeh (/ ˌ j ʊ ɡ ʌ m b ɛər / YOO-gum-BERR (see alternative spellings)), also known as the Minyangbal (/ ˌ m ɪ nj ʌ ŋ b ʌ l / MI-nyung-BUHL), [1] [2] [3] or Nganduwal (/ ˌ ŋ ɑː n d ʊ w ʌ l / NGAHN-doo-WUL), [4] are an Aboriginal Australian people of South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, their territory lies between the Logan and Tweed rivers. [5]
"Corroboree 2000" was a two-day event at the Sydney Opera House held in CAR's final year of existence, taking place from 27 to 28 May 2000. On the first day, a meeting of dozens of Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders at the Sydney Opera House [10] was again broadcast live on TV, and was covered by around 500 media outlets. [3]