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Australia

Indigenous Peoples,
Aborigines, or Aboriginal
tribes of Australia:
Pitjantjatjara, Arrernte,
Luritja, Tharawal,
Wiradjuri, Wonnarua,
Alvawarre, Guugu,
Yimithirr, Gabi Gabi, and
Yorta Yorta Peoples

Location: Oceania, between


the Indian Ocean and the
South Pacific Ocean
Size: 7,686,850 square
kilometers (slightly smaller
than the US contiguous 48
states)
Population: Approximately
21,262,641 (2.5 percent of
whom are Indigenous)
Indigenous, Aborigine, or
Aboriginal Community:
• Australia is home to many
different Indigenous or
Aboriginal clans, also known
as Aboriginal nations or tribes.
Among the largest and most
prominent of the remaining
clans are the Pitjantjatjara,
Arrernte, Luritja, Tharawal,
Wiradjuri, Wonnarua,
Alvawarre, Guugu, Yimithirr,
Gabi Gabi, and Yorta Yorta
Peoples.
• All of Australia's Indigenous
Peoples are, or were at some
point, seminomadic hunters
and gathers. As a result,
tracking of both animals and
plants is considered a
particularly important aspect
of Aboriginal culture.
• Today, 32 percent of
Australia's Indigenous
community lives in urban
areas and 43 percent live in
regional centers.
• Health is a major concern
for Australia's Indigenous
Peoples. Infant mortality rates
are 10-15 percent and life
expectancy falls short of the
rest of the population by 17
years (59 for males and 65 for
females)
• Art is an integral part of
both Indigenous culture and
economy in Australia. An
estimated 70 percent of total
art sold in Australia was
created by Indigenous artists.

Indigenous Australian art (also


known as Aboriginal art)is art made
by Indigenous Australians, covering
works that pre-date European
colonization as well as contemporary
art by Aboriginal Australians based
on traditional culture. These have
been studied in recent decades and
gained increased international
recognition.[1] Aboriginal Art covers a
wide medium including painting on
leaves, wood carving, rock carving,
sculpture, sandpainnting and
ceremonial clothing, as well as
artistic decorations found on
weaponry and also tools. Australian
Aboriginal mythology
Australian Aboriginal mythology

The Djabugay language group's


mythical being, Damarri, transformed
into a mountain range, is seen lying on
his back above the Barron River Gorge,
looking upwards to the skies, within
north-east Australia's wet tropical
forested landscape
Australian Aboriginal myths (also
known as Dreamtime stories, Songlines
or Aboriginal oral literature) are the
stories traditionally performed by
Aboriginal peoples[1] within each of the
language groups across Australia.
All such myths variously tell
significant truths within each
Aboriginal groups' local landscape.
They effectively layer the whole of the
Australian continent's topography with
cultural nuance and deeper meaning,
and empower selected audiences with
the accumulated wisdom and
knowledge of Australian Aboriginal
ancestors back to time immemorial.[2]
David Horton's Encyclopaedia of
Aboriginal Australia contains an article
on Aboriginal mythology observing:[3]
"A mythic map of Australia would
show thousands of characters, varying
in their importance, but all in some way
connected with the land. Some
emerged at their specific sites and
stayed spiritually in that vicinity.
Others came from somewhere else and
went somewhere else."
"Many were shape changing,
transformed from or into human beings
or natural species, or into natural
features such as rocks but all left
something of their spiritual essence at
the places noted in their stories."
Australian Aboriginal mythologies
have been characterised as "at one and
the same time fragments of a
catechism, a liturgical manual, a history
of civilization, a geography textbook,
and to a much smaller extent a manual
of cosmography

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