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Corroboree. 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.
The history of Indigenous Australians began 50,000 to 65,000 years ago when humans first populated the Australian continental landmasses. [1][2][3][4] This article covers the history of Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, two broadly defined groups which each include other sub-groups defined by language and culture.
Josh Cook. 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.
Awabakal language was recorded by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and Awabakal Leader Birabahn in 'An Australian grammar : comprehending the principles and natural rules of the language as spoken by the Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter's River, Lake MacQuarie & New South Wales' -'and this is the first, and most comprehensive record of any indigenous language in Australia.
The Toogee were an Aboriginal Tasmanian people who lived in Western Tasmania, Australia, before European settlement. Their Toogee people included Macquarie Harbour. [ 1] The Toogee consisted of two different bands, the Lowreenne and Mimegin. [ 2] They made stone tools, including those from Darwin Glass, a natural glass formed from a meteorite ...
The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, 2nd edition (2019), is a collaborative publication between the Australian National University (ANU), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Macquarie Dictionary, and was Longlisted for the ABIA Illustrated Book Of The Year 2020. Senator and elder Patrick Dodson praised it highly.
An Australian grammar : comprehending the principles and natural rules of the language, as spoken by the Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter's River, Lake Macquarie, &c. New South Wales is a book written by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and published in Sydney in 1834. It is a grammar of the Awabakal language. In 1892 a revised and much expanded ...
Bob Barrett or Monunggal (c. 1795 – 15 October 1833) was a notable Awabakal Indigenous Australian from the area around Lake Macquarie and Newcastle, New South Wales.He was a trusted part of the British military establishment at the Newcastle and Port Macquarie convict settlements, where he was employed in the tracking and capture of escaped convicts.