aborigines

     

Aborigine or Aboriginal may refer to:

Trivia about aborigines

  • 400-meter star Cathy Freeman is the first of these indigenous Australians to win a world track gold medal
  • Australia is home to the Torres Strait islanders & to the larger indigenous group usually called this
  • Dutch Captain Willem Jansz is credited with the first known contact between Europeans & this indigenous group
  • Australia became a commonwealth in 1901, but this group didn't become citizens until 1967
  • Yikes! Among these indigenous Australians, a person is thought to become a shaman after an initiatory death
  • These Australians got a "sorry" from their government for 2 centuries of mistreatment
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew enjoys the surf at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.) It's easy to see why local tradition says that "bondi" once meant "water breaking over rocks" in the language of these people
  • Aussies are familiar with this term for native inhabitants that once referred to pre-Roman Italians
  • Sensory deprivation is practiced on pubescent boys by Australia's indigenous people, called these
  • From the Latin for "from the beginning", it's the noun used for the earliest known dwellers of a region