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	Australian aborigines — FactMonster.com
		In 2001 the population of aborigines and Torres Straits Islanders was 366,429, 1.9% of the Australian population as a whole and slightly more than the estimated aboriginal population of 350,000 at the time of European colonization in the late 18th cent.
		By the 1940s almost all aborigines were missionized and assimilated into rural and urban Australian society as low-paid laborers with limited rights; many aborigine children were taken from their natural parents and given to foster parents to promote assimilation.
		The recent increase in aboriginal population reflects improved living conditions and a broad and inclusive definition of aboriginal identity on the part of the government.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0805377.html (610 words)

	Food of the Australian Aborigines: 1000 BC - 1700 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Food of the Australian Aborigines: 1000 BC - 1700 AD The Aborigines were the first human inhabitants of the continent of Australia.
		The Aborigines lived in small groups of about three dozen people and were constantly on the move from one place to another.
		Because the Aborigines lived in the Australian deserts, no one location provided enough food for them, and they were constantly on th move.
	library.thinkquest.org /C005446/Food/English/aborigine.html (502 words)

	Australian aborigines - Encyclopedia.com
		In 2001 the population of aborigines and Torres Straits Islanders was 366,429, 1.9% of the Australian population as a whole and slightly more than the estimated aboriginal population of 350,000 at the time of European colonization in the late 18th cent.
		By the 1940s almost all aborigines were missionized and assimilated into rural and urban Australian society as low-paid laborers with limited rights; many aborigine children were taken from their natural parents and given to foster parents to promote assimilation.
		The recent increase in aboriginal population reflects improved living conditions and a broad and inclusive definition of aboriginal identity on the part of the government.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Australab.html (876 words)

	Australian aborigines. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 2001 the population of aborigines and Torres Straits Islanders was 366,429, 1.9% of the Australian population as a whole and slightly more than the estimated aboriginal population of 350,000 at the time of European colonization in the late 18th cent.
		By the 1940s almost all aborigines were missionized and assimilated into rural and urban Australian society as low-paid laborers with limited rights; many aborigine children were taken from their natural parents and given to foster parents to promote assimilation.
		The recent increase in aboriginal population reflects improved living conditions and a broad and inclusive definition of aboriginal identity on the part of the government.
	www.bartleby.com /65/au/Australab.html (589 words)

	Australian Aborigines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australian Aborigines is a name used to collectively describe most of the indigenous peoples of the Australian continent and its nearby islands.
		As of June 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident Indigenous population to be 458,500 (2.4% of Australia's total), 90% of whom identified as Aboriginal, 6% Torres Strait Islander and the remaining 4% being of dual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parentage.
		The Aboriginal population was decimated by British colonisation begun in 1788.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Aborigine (3211 words)

	Who are Australian Aborigines?
		Australian Aborigines are the indigenous population of the Australian continent, meaning that they are the first known dwellers on the continent, as well as the surrounding islands.
		The Australian Aborigines experienced an intensification of the hunter-gatherer period between 3000 and 1000 BCE.
		Much like the American Indians, Australian Aborigines were relegated to unwanted lands and often forced to live on the fringes of settlements.
	www.wisegeek.com /who-are-australian-aborigines.htm (689 words)

	Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dutch adjectival form Australische ("Australian", in the sense of "southern") was used by Dutch officials in Batavia to refer to the newly discovered land to the south as early as 1638.
		The traditions of indigenous Australians are largely transmitted orally and are closely tied to ceremony and the telling of the stories of the Dreamtime.
		Australian English is a major variety of the language; its grammar and spelling are largely based on those of British English, overlaid with a rich vernacular of unique lexical items and phrases, some of which have found their way into standard English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australia (4574 words)

	Australian Aborigines
		Aborigines are dark skinned, with numerous regional variations in their anatomical features and hair color.
		Among the best-known Aboriginal groups are the ARANDA (Arunta), Bidjandjadjara (Pitjantjatjara), Gurindji, Gunwinggu, Kamilaroi, Murngin, Tiwi, Wailbri (Walbiri), Wurora, and Yir-yoront.
		Aboriginal society had a well-developed trading economy: goods of various kinds (spears, ochres, implements, pendants) were exchanged and passed from one group to the next- -the whole country was crisscrossed with trade routes.
	www.lookd.com /infopage/australian_aborigines.htm (947 words)

	Australian Aborigine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Aboriginal population was decimated by British colonisation which began in 1788, when news of the land's fertility spread to Europeans causing them to begin settling in the Aboriginal land.
		The Australian Aboriginal population is for the most part urbanised, but a substantial number live in settlements (often located on the site of former church missions) in what are often remote areas of rural Australia.
		Aboriginal groups in other parts of Australia have their own names, such as Murri in southern Queensland, Noongar in southern Western Australia, Nunga in southern South Australia, Anangu in northern South Australia, and neighbouring parts of Western Australia and Northern Territory and Palawah (or Pallawah) in Tasmania.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Australian-Aborigine.htm (2632 words)

	Aborigines
		Whatever their early history, Aboriginals had settled throughout the entire continent many thousands of years before the white man came and had evolved a way of living that was in harmony with the environment, and that satisfied their needs.
		Aborigines were limited to the range of foods occurring naturally in their area, but they knew exactly when, where and how to find everything edible.
		As Aboriginals had to make use of the natural materials available in their area, huts were often made from bark and boughs, sometimes flimsy and sometimes more substantial, depending on the climate, the time of year, and the length of time that the group forced to remain in one camp.
	users.orac.net.au /~mhumphry/aborigin.html (3697 words)

	Australian Aboriginals - Crystalinks
		Aborigines are therefore probably more familiar to the rest of the world than are the white Australians who immigrated to the continent from Britain and other European countries.
		Aboriginal Australians were social beings who lived in a number of social groups sometimes called bands, clans, sub-tribes and tribes, but essentially in a family or kinship group who were 1) of the same blood-line and 2) were related to other people through totems.
		Aboriginals, the keepers of this land which we know call Australia, were living in Australia thousands of years before the first white settlers, so it is natural to assume that this race of people would have recorded a history as diverse as any other.
	www.crystalinks.com /aboriginals.html (9709 words)

	OZ CITY AUSTRALIA - Australian Aborigines
		The first Australians were called “Aborigines” by the white colonists in 1788.The word “aborigine” literally means an original or native inhabitant of a country.
		However, many Aboriginal groups are reviving some of the traditional practices, and are asking that their sacred objects, used in ceremonies, be returned to them from museum collections.
		Aboriginal groups exchanged natural resources, such as ochres (a naturally occurring combination of fine clay and iron oxide used as a type of paint), tools, stone axes and boomerangs, thus creating extensive trading networks.
	www.ozcity.faithweb.com /aborigines.html (1235 words)

	Use of Insects by Australian Aborigines, Cultural Entomology Digest 1
		Aborigines were completely at home in their surroundings and had no trouble "living off the land." This was mainly because of their intimate knowledge of the topography and natural resources of their tribal territories, and their complete understanding of the habits of the animals they hunted.
		Although the Aboriginal diet was generally low in sugar, honeypot ants were a highly valued food that provided a source of sugar for the Aborigines of central Australia.
		About two-thirds of the Aborigines now live in cities and have adopted suburban life-style; However, even today in Australia, insects still are depicted frequently in contemporary Aboriginal art, which is sold to tourists who have no understanding of the rich and varied historical association of Aborigines with insects.
	www.insects.org /ced1/aust_abor.html (1408 words)

	Australian Aborigines Land and Cultures - Aboriginal Art Online
		Many Aborigines are deeply concerned about the state of their languages, but pride in culture through art is helping to maintain or recover some of them.
		Contemporary Aboriginal culture is also rich in music and there are exciting blends of Western and traditional sounds across a variety of styles, ranging from didjeridu music to the contemporary popular sounds of Archie Roach or Yothu Yindi.
		Aboriginal people believe that their origins lie in the Dreamtime and that they have always lived in Australia.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /culture/culture.php (677 words)

	Unique Facts about Oceania: Australian Aborigines
		Aboriginal people from different parts of Australia have their own names for themselves such as Koori, Yamaji, Nunga, Murri etc; these names are specific to various regions.
		A general impression in white Australian and overseas society that Aboriginals are primarily desert-dwellers is in fact false: the regions of heaviest population were the same temperate coastal regions that are currently the most heavily populated.
		The Aboriginal population was decimated by British colonisation which began in 1788, when news of the land's fertility spread to Europeans causing them to begin settling in the Aboriginal land.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Oceaniaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Oceania16.htm (1652 words)

	Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Aborigines would first detect the presence of the animal by its smell, claw marks or droppings, and confirm its presence by inserting a stick or frond tipped with honey into the hollow tree or log serving as a lair.
		Of course, fresh, pure water was vital to the survival of the Aborigines, both in the subtropical coastal regions as well as in the arid interior.
		Australian plants provided him with remedies for diarrhoea, coughs, colds, rheumatism, ear infections, toothache, upset stomach, headache, sore eyes, fevers, sores, rashes, hemorrhaging of childbirth, warts and ulcers -- as well as for treatment of wounds, burns, insect bites and snake poison.
	www.price-pottenger.org /Articles/Aborigines.htm (4090 words)

	Aborigines, seminomadic hunter-gatherers from Australia
		Aboriginal peoples lived in areas remote from other cultures, and their existence became known to the rest of the world only when outsiders intruded upon their territories.
		By virtue of their name, the Australian aborigines are probably the best known of aboriginal societies.
		By the 1940s almost all aborigines were assimilated into rural and urban Australian society as low-paid laborers with restricted rights; many aborigine children were taken from their natural parents and given to foster parents to promote integration.
	www.occultopedia.com /a/aborigines.htm (1330 words)

	Australian Aborigines--Living Off the Fat of the Land
		The Aborigines would first detect the presence of the animal by its smell, claw marks or droppings, and confirm its presence by inserting a stick or frond tipped with honey into the hollow tree or log serving as a lair.
		Of course, fresh, pure water was vital to the survival of the Aborigines, both in the subtropical coastal regions as well as in the arid interior.
		Australian plants provided him with remedies for diarrhoea, coughs, colds, rheumatism, ear infections, toothache, upset stomach, headache, sore eyes, fevers, sores, rashes, hemorrhaging of childbirth, warts and ulcers — as well as for treatment of wounds, burns, insect bites and snake poison.
	www.westonaprice.org /traditional_diets/australian_aborigines.html (4361 words)

	Australian Aborigines
		The religious world of the Aboriginal Australians is inhabited by ghosts of the dead, as well as a variety of spirits who control certain aspects of the natural world, such as the Rainbow Serpent, who brings rain.
		Aboriginal social organization is based on a set of obligations between individuals who are related by blood or marriage.
		Australian Aborigines were one of the only groups of people in the world not to wear any type of clothing.
	www.everyculture.com /wc/Afghanistan-to-Bosnia-Herzegovina/Australian-Aborigines.html (2469 words)

	Harvard Gazette: The first Australians
		Aborigines did not have the advantage of the 17th and 18th century rivalry between France and England for colonial dominance, which enabled diplomatic initiatives by the Native North American tribes.
		Rowse has been studying Aborigines for more than two decades and is considered one of the foremost experts on the subject of their history as a colonized people.
		Through his contact with Aborigines, both as a researcher and a friend, Rowse has developed an in-depth knowledge of these fascinating and complex people and their relations with Rowse's own people, the mostly British latecomers who colonized them.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/11.20/09-rowse.html (1034 words)

	Australian Aborigines win east coast land claim - Boston.com
		Aborigines won a 10-year fight for control of World Heritage-listed rainforests in the center of Australia's wealthy east coast on Tuesday, sealing one of the country's biggest native land deals.
		CANBERRA (Reuters) - Aborigines won a 10-year fight for control of World Heritage-listed rainforests in the center of Australia's wealthy east coast on Tuesday, sealing one of the country's biggest native land deals.
		A lower court awarded a native land claim over metropolitan Perth in Western Australia state last September, a decision that is being appealed by both the state and national governments.
	www.boston.com /news/world/australia/articles/2007/01/02/australian_aborigines_win_east_coast_land_claim (512 words)

	Australian Crocodile Aborigines Northern Territory
		The Australian Aborigine has had an intimate relationship with the crocodile for thousands of years. Most coastal aborigines regard the crocodile as a sacred animal or totem.
		The Australian Aborigine knows the crocodile well, they know its habits and how to avoid being eaten by them. The crocodile is an important part of aboriginal life and their culture. ; They have a crocodile dreaming, stories, songs and dances about the crocodile.
		To many aboriginal communities the crocodile is a totem that cannot be hunted and must be respected, for thousands of years these people have followed this aboriginal law. To them looking after the crocodile means they are looking after their country, in the same way their ancestors did.
	www.ozmagic.homestead.com /AustralianCrocodileAborigine.html (1359 words)

	Aboriginal Trail Home Page
		The Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 40,000 years, and in all those long generations the land provided them with everything they needed for a healthy life.
		At least half of the food eaten by Aborigines came from plants, and it was the task of the women to collect them.
		Particular trees were considered to be the property of certain Aboriginal families, but everyone was invited to share the delicious nuts, which are not unlike chestnuts when roasted in the fire.
	www.anbg.gov.au /anbg/aboriginal-trail.html (2885 words)

	Fire-by-friction Methods of the Australian Aborigines
		Australian Aborigines are one of the few remaining cultural groups which are still familiar with their traditional subsistence methods.
		On a recent trip to Australia my wife and I saw young Aboriginal men (Remember, in Australia 'abo' is a pejorative) at the Tjakupai Cultural Center in the Northern Territory start a fire with a hand-spun drill.
		It was clear that most of the Aboriginal men I spoke with in the NT were familiar with starting a fire with a hand drill.
	www.primitiveways.com /pt-firesaw.html (1063 words)

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