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Yolngu

Index Yolngu

The Yolngu or Yolŋu are an aggregation of indigenous Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. [1]

145 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal land rights in Australia, Arafura Swamp, Arnhem Land, Arts in Australia, August 1933, Australia–Indonesia relations, Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Australian Aboriginal culture, Australian Aboriginal kinship, Australian frontier wars, Australian literature, Australian one-dollar note, Baijini, Bamapana, Baralku, Bark painting, Barnumbirr, Bremer Island, Buckingham River, Burarra, Bush bread, Caledon Bay, Caledon Bay crisis, Clapstick, Crux, Culture of Australia, Dalabon, Dangu, Dangu people, David Gulpilil, David Malangi, Deaths in May 2008, Desperately Seeking Something, Dhuwal, Dhuwala, Didgeridoo, Djaŋu, Djalu Gurruwiwi, Djanggawul, Djarimirri, Djarrak Football Club, Djinang, Djinang language, Djinang people, Donald Thomson, Early infanticidal childrearing, First Contact (TV series), Funerary art, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, ..., Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures, Gatjil Djerrkura, Gawurra, George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga, Gove Peninsula, Goyder River, Gulumbu Yunupingu, Gurrumul (film), Helen Verran, History of Australia, History of Indigenous Australians, History of the Northern Territory, HMAS Patricia Cam, Hollow log coffin, Human rights in Australia, Ian Keen, Indigenous Australian food groups, Indigenous Australian seasons, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous music of Australia, Indigenous peoples of Australia, Islam in Australia, Janet Munyarryun, John Rudder, Jon Rhodes, Koolatong River, Koori, Lakes of Titan, List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures, List of fertility deities, List of festivals in Australia, List of geological features on Pluto, List of geological features on Titan, List of Indigenous Australian group names, List of Indigenous Australian politicians, List of indigenous peoples, List of lunar deities, List of massacres of Indigenous Australians, Live in Darwin, Australia, Madtsoiidae, Makarrwanhalmirr, Makassan contact with Australia, Makassar people, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Menzies Government (1949–66), Milingimbi Island, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, Mokoi, Murngin people, Murri people, Music of Australia, Nango, Narritjin Maymuru, Nathan Djerrkura, Ngewin, Nhangu language, Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit, Nunga, Observations and explorations of Venus, Our Generation (film), Peter Spillett, Racism in Australia, Rakali, Rarriwuy Hick, Raymattja Marika, Reconciliation Australia, Roy Marika, Saltwater Band, Sama-Bajau, Soft Sands, Songline, Stuart McMillan (church leader), Taboo on the dead, Tuckiar v The King, Vincent Forrester, W. Lloyd Warner, Wandjuk Marika, Wangga, War Before Civilization, Warumpi Band, Wave Hill walk-off, Wirrinyga Band, Yingiya Mark Guyula, Yirrkala, Yirrkala bark petitions, Yolŋu languages, Yolŋu Sign Language, Yolngu Boy, Yothu Yindi, Yunupingu, Yurlungur, 1963 in Australia, 2000 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Expand index (95 more) »

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).

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Aboriginal land rights in Australia

Aboriginal land rights in Australia are return of lands to Indigenous Australians by the Commonwealth, state or territory governments of Australia based on recognition of dispossession.

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Arafura Swamp

The Arafura Swamp is a large inland freshwater wetland in Arnhem Land, in the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Arnhem Land

Arnhem Land is one of the five regions of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Arts in Australia

The Arts in Australia refers to the art produced in the area of, on the subject of, or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies.

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August 1933

The following events occurred in August 1933.

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Australia–Indonesia relations

Australia–Indonesia relations refers to the foreign relations between Australia and one of its few neighboring countries, Indonesia.

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Australian Aboriginal astronomy

Australian Aboriginal astronomy is a name given to indigenous Australian culture relating to astronomical subjects – such as the Sun and Moon, the stars, planets, and the Milky Way, and their motions on the sky.

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Australian Aboriginal culture

Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime.

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Australian Aboriginal kinship

Australian Aboriginal kinship are the systems of law governing social interaction, particularly marriage, in traditional Australian Aboriginal cultures.

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Australian frontier wars

The Australian frontier wars is a term applied by some historians to violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians and white settlers during the British colonisation of Australia.

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Australian literature

Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies.

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Australian one-dollar note

The Australian one-dollar note (or $1 bill) was introduced in 1966 due to decimalisation, to replace the 10-shilling note.

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Baijini

Baijini are a race of people, mythical or historical is unknown, mentioned in the Djanggawul song cycle of the aboriginal Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Bamapana

In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Yolngu), Bamapana is a trickster god who causes discord.

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Baralku

In Yolngu culture, Baralku (or Bralgu) is the island of the dead and the place where the Djanggawul originated.

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Bark painting

Bark painting is an Australian Aboriginal art form, involving painting on the interior of a strip of tree bark.

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Barnumbirr

Barnumbirr is a creator-spirit in the Yolngu culture of Arnhem Land in Australia, who is identified as the planet Venus.

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Bremer Island

Bremer Island, or Dhambaliya in the local language is an island in the Arafura Sea, in the northwest of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 3.4 km off the northeast corner of Arnhem Land (Cape Wirawawoi), Northern Territory, Australia.

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Buckingham River

Buckingham River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Burarra

The Burarra, also referred to as the Gidjingali, are an indigenous Australian people in and around Maningrida in the Northern Territory.

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Bush bread

Bush bread, or seedcakes, refers to the bread made by Australian Aboriginals for many thousands of years, by crushing seeds into a dough, after which it is baked.

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Caledon Bay

Caledon Bay is a bay in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, at approximately 12.8° S, 136.5° E. It is perhaps most famous as the home of a group of Yolngu people who were key players in the Caledon Bay crisis, which marked a turning point in the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

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Caledon Bay crisis

The Caledon Bay crisis refers to a series of killings at Caledon Bay in the Northern Territory of Australia during 1932–34.

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Clapstick

Clapsticks or clappers are a type of drumstick, percussion mallet or claves that belongs to the idiophone category.

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Crux

Crux is a constellation located in the southern sky in a bright portion of the Milky Way.

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Culture of Australia

The culture of Australia is a Western culture, derived primarily from Britain but also influenced by the unique geography of Australia, the cultural input of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other Australian people.

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Dalabon

The Dalabon are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Dangu

Dangu may refer to.

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Dangu people

The Dangu are an indigenous Australian people of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory.

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David Gulpilil

David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu AM (born 1 July 1953), is an Australian traditional dancer and actor.

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David Malangi

David Malangi (192719 June 1999) was an Indigenous Australian Yolngu artist from the Northern Territory.

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Deaths in May 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2008.

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Desperately Seeking Something

Desperately Seeking Something is a British television series first broadcast on 6 November 1995, presented by travel writer and presenter Pete McCarthy.

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Dhuwal

The Dhuwal are an indigenous Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

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Dhuwala

The Dhuwala are an indigenous Australian people of eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

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Didgeridoo

The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world.

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Djaŋu

The Djaŋu, otherwise written as Djangu, are an indigenous Australian people of the area of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Djalu Gurruwiwi

Djalu Gurruwiwi (born at Milingimbi MissionThe Australian, 5 October 2002, "Mr Didgeridoo – Arnhem Land's latest international cult figure – The stringybark kids." by Nicolas Rothwell. on Wirriku Island (also known as Jirgarri Island), by Paul Daley, The Guardian, 8 September 2014 one of the smaller islands in the Wessel Islands group, Northern Territory, Australia, in about 1930, is a senior member of the Galpu clan, of the Yolngu people. He is an internationally renowned didgeridoo maker and player. Gurruwiwi is also a respected artist, with his paintings on eucalyptus bark being acquired by numerous important institutions, including the National Gallery of Victoria and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.

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Djanggawul

In Yolngu mythology, the Djanggawul are three siblings, two female and one male, who created the landscape of Australia and covered it with flora.

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Djarimirri

Djarimirri (subtitled Child of the Rainbow) is the first posthumous album and fourth studio album from Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.

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Djarrak Football Club

The Djarrak Football Club is an amateur Australian rules football club that competes in the Gove Australian Football League, based in Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Djinang

Djinang may refer to.

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Djinang language

Djinang is an Australian Aboriginal Yolŋu language, spoken in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Djinang people

The Djinang are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Donald Thomson

Donald Finlay Fergusson Thomson, OBE (26 June 1901 – 12 May 1970) was an Australian anthropologist and ornithologist who was largely responsible for turning the Caledon Bay crisis into a "decisive moment in the history of Aboriginal-European relations".

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Early infanticidal childrearing

Early infanticidal childrearing is a term used in the study of psychohistory that refers to infanticide in paleolithic, pre-historical, and historical hunter-gatherer tribes or societies.

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First Contact (TV series)

First Contact is an Australian reality television documentary series that aired on SBS One, SBS Two and NITV.

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Funerary art

Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead.

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Galarrwuy Yunupingu

Galarrwuy Yunupingu, AM (born 30 June 1948) is a leader in the Australian Indigenous community, and has been involved in the fight for Land Rights throughout his career.

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Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures

The Garma Festival of Traditional Culture is an annual festival that is held in north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Gatjil Djerrkura

Gatjil Djerrkura OAM (Yolŋu Matha:Gätjil Djerrkura) (30 June 1949 – 26 May 2004) was an Aboriginal leader and indigenous spokesman in the Northern Territory and Australia.

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Gawurra

Gawurra Gaykamangu (known as Gawurra) is an Australian singer-songwriter hailing from Milingimbi Island, North East Arnhem Land.

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George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga

George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga (1957 – 10 June 2007, known in life as George Rrurrambu and George Djilangya), was a Yolngu man from Elcho Island in Arnhem Land.

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Gove Peninsula

The Gove Peninsula is at the northeastern corner of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Goyder River

The Goyder River is a river in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Gulumbu Yunupingu

Gulumbu Yunupingu (c. 1943 – 10 May 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal artist and women's leader from the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Gurrumul (film)

Gurrumul is a 2018 Australian documentary film about the life of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.

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Helen Verran

Helen Verran is an Australian historian and philosopher of science, and currently Adjunct Professor at Charles Darwin University.

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History of Australia

The History of Australia refers to the history of the area and people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies.

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History of Indigenous Australians

The History of Indigenous Australians began at least 65,000 years ago when Aboriginal Australians populated Australia.

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History of the Northern Territory

The history of the Northern Territory began over 60,000 years ago when Indigenous Australians settled the region.

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HMAS Patricia Cam

HMAS Patricia Cam was an auxiliary vessel operated by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II.

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Hollow log coffin

A hollow log coffin is a type of coffin used by the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, Australia.

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Human rights in Australia

Human rights in Australia have largely been developed under Australian Parliamentary democracy through laws in specific contexts (rather than a stand-alone, abstract bill of rights) and safeguarded by such institutions as an independent judiciary and High Court which implement the Common Law, the Australian Constitution and various other laws of Australia and its states and territories.

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Ian Keen

Ian Keen (born 21 November 1938) is an Australian anthropologist, whose research interests cover Yolngu kinship structures and religion, Aboriginal land rights and economies, and language.

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Indigenous Australian food groups

Indigenous Australian peoples traditionally classified food sources in a methodical way.

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Indigenous Australian seasons

Indigenous Australians have distinct ways of dividing the year up.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Indigenous music of Australia

Australian Indigenous music includes the music of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, who are collectively called Indigenous Australians.

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Indigenous peoples of Australia

There are several hundred Indigenous peoples of Australia; many are groupings that existed before the British colonisation of Australia in 1788.

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Islam in Australia

Islam in Australia is a minority religious affiliation.

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Janet Munyarryun

Guypunura "Janet" Munyarryun (born) is an Aboriginal dancer, choreographer and tutor.

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John Rudder

John Rudder, PhD, has studied the Australian Aboriginal languages, of Arnhem Land (Gupapuyngu) in the Northern Territory and the state of New South Wales (Wiradjuri), Australia.

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Jon Rhodes

Jon Rhodes is an Australian photographer who was born in 1947.

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Koolatong River

The Koolatong River is a river in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Koori

The Koori People are Indigenous Australians of New South Wales and Victoria.

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Lakes of Titan

The lakes of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, are bodies of liquid ethane and methane that have been detected by the Cassini–Huygens space probe, and had been suspected long before.

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List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures

The following is a list of Australian Indigenous Australian deities and spirits.

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List of fertility deities

A fertility deity is a god or goddess associated with sex, fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth.

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List of festivals in Australia

List of festivals in Australia, including any established festival or carnival in Australia.

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List of geological features on Pluto

This is a list of named geological features on Pluto, identified by scientists working with data from the New Horizons spacecraft.

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List of geological features on Titan

This is a list of named geological features on Saturn's moon Titan.

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List of Indigenous Australian group names

Below is a list of names and collective designations which have been applied, either currently or in the past, to groups of Indigenous Australians.

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List of Indigenous Australian politicians

This is a list of Indigenous Australians who have been members of Australian legislaturesfederal, state or territory.

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List of indigenous peoples

This is a partial list of the world's indigenous / aboriginal / native people.

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List of lunar deities

In mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with, or symbolic of the moon.

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List of massacres of Indigenous Australians

Groups of Aboriginals were killed on occasions in retaliation between the start of the British colonisation of Australia in 1788 up to the 1920s.

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Live in Darwin, Australia

Live in Darwin, Australia is the first live album by Gurrumul.

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Madtsoiidae

Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of mostly Gondwanan snakes with a fossil record extending from early Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) to late Pleistocene strata located in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe.

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Makarrwanhalmirr

The Makarrwanhalmirr (Mugarganalmiri) are an indigenous Australian clan-people of the Northern Territory.

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Makassan contact with Australia

Makassan trepangers from the southwest corner of Sulawesi, Indonesia began visiting the coast of northern Australia sometime around the middle of the 1700s, first in the Kimberley region, and some decades later in Arnhem Land, to collect and process trepang (also known as sea cucumber), a marine invertebrate sea cucumber prized for its culinary value generally and for its medicinal properties in Chinese markets.

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Makassar people

The Makassar people (also known as Mangasara, Mengkasara, Macassar, Taena, Tena, or Gowa) are an ethnic group that inhabits the southern part of the South Peninsula, Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) in Indonesia.

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Mandawuy Yunupingu

Mandawuy Djarrtjuntjun Yunupingu (formerly Tom Djambayang Bakamana Yunupingu, skin name Gudjuk),, (17 September 19562 June 2013) was an Aboriginal Australian musician and educator.

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Menzies Government (1949–66)

The Menzies Government (1949–1966) refers to the second period of federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Robert Menzies.

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Milingimbi Island

Milingimbi Island, also Yurruwi, is the largest island of the Crocodile Islands group off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.

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Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd

Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty LtdMilirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971) 17 FLR 141 (27 April 1971) Supreme Court (NT).

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Mokoi

In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Murngin), Mokoi (lit. "evil spirit") is an evil spirit who killed sorcerers who used black magic.

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Murngin people

Murnginis a term formerly used to denote a number of tribes of Arnhem Land.

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Murri people

The Murri are the Indigenous Australians of modern-day Queensland and north-west New South Wales.

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Music of Australia

The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies.

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Nango

Nango may refer to.

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Narritjin Maymuru

Narritjin Maymuru (died 1981) was a Yolngu people artist and activist noted for Bark painting.

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Nathan Djerrkura

Nathan Djerrkura (born 19 September 1988) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Ngewin

The Ngewin were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Nhangu language

Nhangu (Nhaŋu), also Yan-nhaŋu (Jarnango) is indigenous Australian language spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of the Crocodile Islands, off the coast of the Northern Territory.

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Nhulunbuy

Nhulunbuy is a township that is the sixth largest place in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit

The Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit (NTSRU) was an irregular warfare unit of the Australian Army during World War II, composed mainly of Aboriginal people from the Northern Territory.

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Nunga

Nunga is a term of self-reference for many of the Aboriginal peoples of southern South Australia.

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Observations and explorations of Venus

Observations of the planet Venus include those in antiquity, telescopic observations, and from visiting spacecraft.

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Our Generation (film)

Our Generation is a 2010 Australian documentary film about the struggle of Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory to retain their land, culture and freedom.

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Peter Spillett

Peter Gerald Spillett (20 January 1926 – 18 December 2004) was a British-born Australian historian and public servant.

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Racism in Australia

Racism in Australia traces both historical and contemporary racist community attitudes, as well as political non-compliance and governmental negligence on United Nations human rights standard and incidents in Australia.

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Rakali

Hydromys chrysogaster, commonly known as rakali, rabe or water-rat, is an Australian native rodent first described in 1804.

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Rarriwuy Hick

Rarriwuy Hick (born) is an Australian Aboriginal actress, known for her roles in the television series Redfern Now and Cleverman.

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Raymattja Marika

Raymattja Marika (c. 1959 – 11 May 2008) was an Australian Yolngu aboriginal leader, scholar, educator, translator, linguist and cultural advocate.

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Reconciliation Australia

Reconciliation Australia is a non-government, not-for-profit foundation established in January 2001 to promote a continuing national focus for reconciliation between indigenous Australians and Australians from a non-indigenous cultural background.

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Roy Marika

Roy Dadaynga Marika (MBE) (c. 1925 - 1993) was a member of the famous Marika family, youngest of the four Marika brothers after Mawalan I Marika, Mathaman Marika and Milirrpum Marika.

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Saltwater Band

Saltwater Band are an Indigenous Roots band from Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island, around 560 kilometres from Darwin.

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Sama-Bajau

The Sama-Bajau refers to several Austronesian ethnic groups of Maritime Southeast Asia with their origins from the southern Philippines.

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Soft Sands

Soft Sands is a country and gospel band from Galiwin'ku in Arnhem Land formed in 1970.

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Songline

Within the animist belief system of Indigenous Australians, a songline, also called dreaming track, is one of the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) which mark the route followed by localised "creator-beings" during the Dreaming.

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Stuart McMillan (church leader)

Stuart McMillan (born 1955) is the current national President of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA).

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Taboo on the dead

The taboo on the dead includes the taboo against touching of the dead and those surrounding them; the taboo against mourners of the dead; and the taboo against anything associated with the dead.

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Tuckiar v The King

Tuckiar v The King,.

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Vincent Forrester

Vincent Forrester (born 1952) is an Aboriginal Australian activist, artist and community leader.

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W. Lloyd Warner

William Lloyd Warner (October 26, 1898 – May 23, 1970) was a pioneering anthropologist noted for applying the techniques of his discipline to contemporary American culture.

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Wandjuk Marika

Wandjuk Marika OBE (1927-1987), was an Australian Aboriginal painter, actor, composer and land rights activist.

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Wangga

Wangga (sometimes spelled Wongga) is an indigenous Australian genre of traditional music and ceremony which originated in northern areas of the country from South Alligator River south east towards Ngukurr, south to the Katherine region of Northern Territory and west into the Kimberley of Western Australia.

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War Before Civilization

War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Oxford University Press, 1996) is a book by Lawrence H. Keeley, a professor of archaeology at the University of Illinois at Chicago who specializes in prehistoric Europe.

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Warumpi Band

Warumpi Band were an Australian country and Aboriginal rock group which formed in the outback settlement of Papunya, Northern Territory in 1980.

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Wave Hill walk-off

Wave Hill walk-off or The Gurindji strike was a walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families in August 1966 at Wave Hill cattle station in Kalkarindji (formerly known as Wave Hill), Northern Territory.

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Wirrinyga Band

Wirrinyga Band (also known as Warrinyga Band) are a rock band from Milingimbi, a small island in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.

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Yingiya Mark Guyula

Yingiya Mark Guyula is an Australian politician.

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Yirrkala

Yirrkala is an indigenous community in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, 18 km South-East from the large mining town of Nhulunbuy.

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Yirrkala bark petitions

The Yirrkala bark petitions 1963 are historic Australian documents that were the first traditional documents prepared by Indigenous Australians that were recognised by the Australian Parliament, and are the first documentary recognition of Indigenous people in Australian law.

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Yolŋu languages

Yolŋu Matha, meaning the "Yolŋu tongue", is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (Yolŋu, Yuulngu), the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia.

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Yolŋu Sign Language

Yolŋu (Yolngu) or Murngin Sign Language is a ritual sign language used by the Yolngu, an Aboriginal community in the Arnhem Land region of Australia.

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Yolngu Boy

Yolngu Boy is a 2001 Australian coming-of-age film that follows three Yolngu teenagers as they make the transition from childhood to adulthood.

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Yothu Yindi

Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for "child and mother") were an Australian musical group with Aboriginal and balanda (non-Aboriginal) members, formed in 1986 as a merger of two bands formed in 1985 – a White rock group called the Swamp Jockeys and an unnamed Aboriginal folk group.

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Yunupingu

Yunupingu is the family name of a number of notable Indigenous Australians from the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land.

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Yurlungur

In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Murngin), Yurlungur is a copper snake who was awakened from a deep sleep by the odor of a woman's menstrual blood.

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1963 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1963 in Australia.

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2000 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

The opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympic games took place on Friday 15 September in Stadium Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolngu

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