Australian Aborigines: Aboriginal People's Perception Of Indigenous People
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The word "aborigine" means an original native inhabitant of any country. The word "Aborigine" is used to describe the indigenous people of Australia. Although not all indigenous people in Australia are Aboriginal. In Australia, many non-Aboriginal people use the terms "Aboriginal" and "Aboriginals" for the indigenous people of the present and in the past. Aborigines describe themselves using various words which mean "person" from each of their own tribes and languages. Someone from around modern-day Sydney might call themselves Koorie, from Darwin as Larrakeyah, from Arnhem Land as Yolngu, and from central Australia as Pitjantjatjara or Pintupi. This showcases how Aboriginal people view European invasion and colonization because during the times of invasions and colonizations, Aboriginal people were not viewed as people but looked down upon and taken advantage of. The Australian Aborigines appeared around 50,000 years ago to about 40,000 years ago when humans migrated out of Africa and Asia to Australia. Although their ancestors probably migrated through Southeast Asia, the Aborigines are not thought to be related to any Asian or Polynesian populations. The current Aborigines are assumed…show more content… Those who lived by the coast and river ate fish and eels. Some examples of the birds that they ate are waterfowl, scrub fowl, the Cassowary, and the Jabiru. The yellow fat of the goanna (a large Australian lizard) was considered a delicacy, but they ate more common animals such as frogs and sometimes kangaroos. The Aborigines ate a lot of the fruits and vegetables that they could find. These included yams, bush tomatoes, onions, and bananas, fig, quandong (a fruit), wild orange truffles, and multiple types of seeds such as wattleseed. These seeds could be ground up to create a paste and make bread that would not go bad until cooked which came in handy because of the constant