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Tjilpa -men, significant mythic figures Aranda, Anmatyerre, Kaytetye, Ngalia, Ilpara and Kukatja stories. Tjilpa is the Arrernte word for quoll. Tjinimin, the ancestor of the Australian people. He is associated with the bat and with Kunmanggur the rainbow serpent - per the Murinbata. Ulanji, snake ancestor of the Binbinga.
Ngarrindjeri. Ngarrindjeri culture is centred around the lower lakes of the Murray River. The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, eastern Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term Ngarrindjeri means "belonging to men ...
Parramatta, Gweea, Cameera, Cadi, and Memel, are names of places. The tribes derive their appellations from the places they inhabit. Thus Cemeeragal, means the men who reside in the bay of Cameera; Cadigal, those who reside in the bay of Cadi; and so of the others. [ 2] ".
This list of Australian Aboriginal group names includes names and collective designations which have been applied, either currently or in the past, to groups of Aboriginal Australians. The list does not include Torres Strait Islander peoples, who are ethnically, culturally and linguistically distinct from Australian Aboriginal peoples, although ...
coolamon (wooden curved bowl used to carry food or baby) corroboree. dilli (a bag) [ 4] commonly, and tautologically, as "dilly-bag". djanga. gibber (a stone) [ 4] esp. in gibber plain=stony desert. gin (now a racially offensive word for an Aboriginal woman) gunyah. humpy (a hut) kurdaitcha.
Dog Names Inspired by Pop Culture. A third of pet owners have named their dog after a character from a TV show, video game, movie, or book, Rover.com found (versus 12% for a food and only 5% for a ...
This is a list of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common ...
Australian Aboriginal English ( AAE or AbE) is a cover term used for the complex, rule-governed varieties of English used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian ( Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander) population as a result of colonisation. [ 2] It is made up of a number of varieties which developed differently in different ...