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Definition: aborigine from The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide

Any indigenous inhabitant of a region or country. The word often refers to the original peoples of areas colonized by Europeans, and especially to Australian Aborigines.

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Australian Aborigine

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of any of the 500 groups of indigenous inhabitants of the continent of Australia, who migrated to this region from South Asia about 40,000 years ago. Traditionally hunters and gatherers, they are found throughout the continent and their languages probably belong to more than one linguistic family. They are dark-skinned, with fair hair in childhood and heavy dark beards and body hair in adult males. There are about 228,000 Aborigines in Australia, making up about 1.5% of the population of 16 million. The Aborigine rights movement campaigns against racial discrimination in housing, education, wages, and medical facilities. There were about 300,000 Aborigines living on the continent in small kin-based groups at the time of the first European settlement in 1788. Decimated by diseases new to them and killed by settlers, their number dwindled drastically. The Australian Aborigines have a rich oral tradition of legends, songs, rituals, and bark and cave paintings concerned with their…
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Full text Article Australian Aborigine

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Any of the indigenous peoples of Australia. The first Australians are estimated to have reached the continent at least 50,000 years ago. At one time there may have been as many as 500 language-named, territorially anchored groups of indigenous Australians. They subsisted as hunters and gatherers. …
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Full text Article Australian Aborigine

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of any of the 500 groups of indigenous inhabitants of the continent of Australia, who migrated to this region from South Asia about 40,000 years ago. Traditionally hunters and gatherers, they are found throughout the continent and their languages probably belong to more than one linguistic…
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Full text Article Australian Aborigine Peoples

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Reconciliation March in Sydney, Australia. On May...
What it means to be “Australian” cannot be understood without appreciation of how race, as a marker of difference, has permeated the colonial and national psyche. In Australia, “race” once implied a difference of appearance perceived as inferior, unworthy, polluting, or threatening, but it has…
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Full text Article Australian Aborigine

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Full text Article Aborigine, Australian

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Full text Article Australian art

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Art of Australia, notable for its long-established indigenous traditions of Aboriginal art . This appears to date back at least 40,000 years, judging by radiocarbon dates obtained from organic material trapped in varnish covering apparently abstract rock engravings in South Australia, but may be…
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Full text Article Namatjira, Albert

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(born July 28, 1902, Hermannsburg, near Alice Springs, N.Terr., Austl.—died Aug. 8, 1959, Alice Springs) Australian Aboriginal painter. A member of the Aranda tribe, Namatjira learned European watercolour painting techniques at a Lutheran mission school. In 1936 he sold his first painting, and, in…
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(born Jan. 17, 1881, Birmingham, Warwick, Eng.—died Oct. 24, 1955, London) British social anthropologist. He taught at the universities of Cape Town, Sydney, Chicago, and Oxford. In his version of functionalism , he viewed the component parts of society (e.g., the kinship system, the legal system) …
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Full text Article Tasmania

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Island and state, Australia . Area: 26,410 sq mi (68,401 sq km). Population: (2011) 495,354. Capital: Hobart . It is located off the southeastern corner of the continent and separated from it by Bass Strait . The state’s area includes numerous smaller islands. Originally inhabited by Australian…
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Full text Article Arnhem Land

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Region, northeastern Northern Territory , Australia. It extends south from Van Diemen Gulf to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Groote Eylandt. Never fully explored, it has a total area of about 37,000 sq mi (96,000 sq km) and contains important bauxite and uranium mines. Occupied by Australian Aborigines…
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