These arrests were based on Aboriginal participation in festivals, dances and ceremonies that involved the wounding of animals or humans, or the giving away of money or goods.

" Indeed, one of the organisations now accused of participation in the removals had Aboriginal rights activists working as members of the board and yet apparently they didn't notice that they were ' stealing ' children.

The Menzies Government's Commonwealth Electoral Act of 1962 removed voting restrictions that remained for Aboriginal participation in Federal elections ( which had earlier not been an automatic right, but one which depended on whether or not individual states allowed Aborigines to vote ), and the Holt Government's 1967 referendum moved to include all Aborigines in the national census for the purposes of determining electoral distributions.

It was the Menzies Government's 1962 legislation which removed the restrictions on Aborigines from certain states from voting in Federal elections-however Aboriginal participation in colonial and Federal and state elections had been possible far earlier than this in a majority of states.

When the state constitutions of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania were framed in 1850s, voting rights were granted to all male British subjects over the age of 21, which included Aboriginal men, though participation was not encouraged as it was for others living in the colony.

VCC is a member of the Coastal Corridor Consortium, which works to improve levels of participation and success for Aboriginal students.

Koori Courts were created in order to allow participation of the Aboriginal community and culture in the legal system, in an attempt to bridge the cultural differences between Indigenous Australians and the imposed colonial law.

In 1971 Greenberg proposed the Indo-Pacific macrofamily, which groups together the Papuan languages ( a large number of language families of New Guinea and nearby islands ) with the native languages of the Andaman Islands and Tasmania but excludes the Australian Aboriginal languages.

The number of Aboriginal people has been increasing at rates greater than the general population of Ontario.

There are a large number of Aboriginal rock paintings and carvings along the stock route.

Several communities are located near or alongside James Bay, including a number of Aboriginal communities such as the Kashechewan First Nation and nine communities affiliated with the Crees of northern Quebec.

In addition to its ever-publicised ' alternative ' sub-culture, the area is home to a large number of culturally diverse families and has a significant Aboriginal population.

Chauvel directed a number of successful Australian films, including 1944's World War II classic The Rats of Tobruk which starred Peter Finch and Chips Rafferty and 1955's Jedda, which was notable for being the first Australian film to be shot in colour, and the first to feature Aboriginal actors in lead roles and to be entered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Since then, Dixon has assembled a number of similar examples of Australian Aboriginal myths that accurately describe landscapes of an ancient past.

A number of linguists, anthropologists and others have formally documented another common Aboriginal myth occurring across Australia.

In 1988 Australian anthropologist Kenneth Maddock assembled several versions of this ' Captain Cook ' myth as recorded from a number of Aboriginal groups around Australia.

Contained within the park are a number of Aboriginal heritage sites, including artefact scatters, stone arrangements and camp sites.

There are a number of differing accounts given, by outsiders, of Aboriginal ancestral stories for the origins of Uluru and its many cracks and fissures.

Chauvel directed a number of successful Australian films, the last being 1955's Jedda, which was notable for being the first Australian film to be shot in colour, and the first to feature Aboriginal actors in lead roles and to be entered at the Cannes Film Festival.

This produced a period of conflict through the 1830s, sometimes followed up by reprisals with guns, during which a number of Aboriginal people were massacred.

The organization administers a number of student centres designed to cater to the safety and well-being of various members of the student body ; these are the Aboriginal Service Centre, BECAMPS ( for mature students ), the Carleton Disability Awareness Centre, Food Centre, Foot Patrol, GLBTQ centre, International Students ' Centre, Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Hall, and the Womyn's Centre.

A number of historians point to introduced disease as the major cause of the destruction of the full-blooded Aboriginal population.

Aboriginal immediate families include aunts, uncles and a number of other relatives who would be considered " distant relations " in the context of the nuclear family.

Before European settlers came to what is now Canada, the region was occupied by a large number of Aboriginal peoples, including the West Coast Salish and Haida, the centrally located Iroquois, Blackfoot and Huron, the Inuit and Dene people to the North, and the Innu and Mi ' kmaq in the East.

* Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, a family of abugidas used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages.

In the late 18th century, there were between 350 and 750 distinct Aboriginal social groupings, and a similar number of languages or dialects.

There are also commonly speech taboos during extended periods of mourning or initiation that have led to a large number of Aboriginal sign languages.

There are a number of other names from Australian Aboriginal languages commonly used to identify groups based on geography:

Wiluna has a significant number of Indigenous ( Aboriginal ) people living within its community.

The Pama – Nyungan family accounts for most of the geographic spread, most of the Aboriginal population, and the greatest number of languages.

The other major family of abugidas, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, was initially developed in the 1840s by missionary and linguist James Evans for the Cree and Ojibwe languages.

Alcohol abuse continues to be a major issue in Aboriginal communities and third-world diseases like trachoma can be seen in remote Aboriginal townships .< ref >

The last major Aboriginal rebellion, the Musha Uprising ( Wushe Uprising ) in late 1930 by the Atayal people angry over their treatment while laboring in the burdensome job of camphor extraction, launched the last headhunting party in which over 150 Japanese officials were killed and beheaded during the opening ceremonies of a school.

The building of the stock route impacted on the cultural and social life of the more than 15 Aboriginal language groups that have a " cultural, familial or historical connection to the route and its custodians, or to sites along the major Dreaming tracks or songlines ".

The Rainbow Serpent ( also known as the Rainbow Snake ) is a major mythological being for Aboriginal people across Australia, although the creation myth associated with it are best known from northern Australia.

Strong box office performances were recorded in 2009-10 by Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer ; the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae the dramatization of John Marsden's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began ; and the crime drama Animal Kingdom which featured major Australian screen stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce and Jackie Weaver.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales ( AGNSW ), alongside major collections of Australian colonial and 20th century art and some works by European masters, has the largest and most important collection of Aboriginal art anywhere in the world.

These are to be achieved through various programs, such as the Aboriginal Film Program, implementing a major bilingual website on the history of Canada, and incorporating Internet and interactive tools into film making.

Stanley's research also includes strategies to enhance health and well-being in populations ; the causes and prevention of birth defects and major neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy ; the causes and lifelong consequences of low birth weight ; and patterns of maternal and child health in Aboriginal and Caucasian populations.

The concept of terra nullius became a major issue in Australian politics when in 1992, during an Aboriginal rights case known as Mabo, the High Court of Australia issued a judgment which was a direct overturning of terra nullius.

Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ), whose two major monographs were the Crania Americana ( 1839 ), An Inquiry into the Distinctive Characteristics of the Aboriginal Race of America and Crania Aegyptiaca ( 1844 ) concluded that the ancient Egyptians were not African but white and that caucasians and negroes were already distinct three thousand years ago.

The significance of this election was broader than merely a change of partisan rule ; new issues, such as the environment, Aboriginal affairs, abortion, multiculturalism, and a broader acceptance of state spending, resulted from the Whitlam government, which in many respects created a bipartisan consensus on major issues of social policy.

It seems likely that the well-documented outbreak of smallpox among local Aboriginal people in early 1789 had a major impact.

It ignored the matrilineal systems of many tribes, in which property was controlled and passed through the maternal line, as well as the major roles that Aboriginal women typically had in cultivating their crops after men had cleared the fields.

Before colonisation in the 1870s – 1880s, it was the major lingua franca of the area in both Australia and Papua, and is still widely spoken by neighbouring Papuans and by some Aboriginal people.

The main Aboriginal body within the town is the Julalikari Council which plays a major role in providing training and employment services for the Aboriginal people in Tennant Creek.

The Dunwich settlement was in close proximity to a major Aboriginal camp at Myora Spring.

Czaplicka's research survives in three major works: her studies in Aboriginal Siberia ( 1914 ); a travelogue published as My Siberian Year ( 1916 ); and a set of lectures published as The Turks of Central Asia ( 1919 ).

At this stage she had never visited Siberia, but the quality of her writing led to Aboriginal Siberia becoming the major reference work in its field.

It accepted evidence that rape and sexual abuse of Aboriginal minors was widespread in Western Australia ; that sexually transmitted diseases were higher than with non-Aboriginal children ; that Aboriginal mortality rates are many times higher than that of the non-Aboriginal community and that drug taking with Aboriginal people was a major problem.