Aboriginal identity has changed over time and place, with family lineage, self-identification, and community acceptance all of varying importance.

Survey of the history, society, and culture of the Australian Aboriginal peoples, who are one of the two distinct Indigenous cultural groups of Australia. It is generally held that they originally …

Jan 18, 2025 · From the times of the last Ice Age, when sea levels rose and virtually plunged Aboriginal peoples into a state of complete isolation, to the great upheaval caused by …

Australia’s Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. But there is great diversity within these two broadly described groups …

Jun 29, 2023 · Aboriginal Australians are the original inhabitants of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and many surrounding islands, with a continuous culture spanning over 65,000 years …

Aboriginal Australians are all related to a common group of ancestors who emerged on the mainland more than 50,000 years ago. Centuries after British colonization ravaged their …

Jul 7, 2025 · Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have the oldest continuing cultures in the world. Indigenous Australians have lived here for at least 60,000 years! Let’s …

4 days ago · Decades ago one of B.C.'s top judges described tensions between the legal concept of Aboriginal title and the reality of private property ownership as a "cloud." Last week, just as …

Aboriginal people have complex social and marriage laws, based on the grouping of people with their society. The social fabric of Aboriginal society is maintained in the remote parts of central …

More than 200 different Aboriginal languages were spoken (and hundreds of dialects; see also Australian Aboriginal languages), and most Aboriginal people were bilingual or multilingual. …