The Dreaming,also referred to as Dreamtime,is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal mythology. It was originally used by Francis Gillen,quickly adopted by his colleague Sir Baldwin Spencer and thereafter popularised by A. P. Elkin,who,however,later revised his views.
Christine Anu is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress of Torres Strait Islander origin. She gained popularity with the cover song release of the Warumpi Band's song "My Island Home" in 1995. Anu has been nominated for many ARIA Awards,winning several,as well as five Deadly Awards,among others. In August 2024 she released a new album and single of the same name,Waku:Minaral a Minalay.
Indigenous music of Australia comprises the music of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia,intersecting with their cultural and ceremonial observances,through the millennia of their individual and collective histories to the present day. The traditional forms include many aspects of performance and musical instrumentation that are unique to particular regions or Aboriginal Australian groups;and some elements of musical tradition are common or widespread through much of the Australian continent,and even beyond. The music of the Torres Strait Islanders is related to that of adjacent parts of New Guinea. Music is a vital part of Indigenous Australians' cultural maintenance.
The Dharug or Darug people,are an Aboriginal Australian people,who share ties of kinship and,in pre-colonial times,lived as hunters in family groups or clans,scattered throughout much of what is modern-day Sydney.
The Wangal people are a clan of the Dharug Aboriginal people whose heirs are custodians of the lands and waters of what is now the Inner West of Sydney,New South Wales,centred around the Municipality of Strathfield,Municipality of Burwood,City of Canada Bay and former Ashfield Council and extending west into the City of Parramatta.
The Eora are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales. Eora is the name given by the earliest European settlers to a group of Aboriginal people belonging to the clans along the coastal area of what is now known as the Sydney basin,in New South Wales,Australia. The Eora share a language with the Darug people,whose traditional lands lie further inland,to the west of the Eora.
A corroboree is a generic word for a meeting of Australian Aboriginal peoples. It may be a sacred ceremony,a festive celebration,or of a warlike character. A word coined by the first British settlers in the Sydney area from a word in the local Dharug language,it usually includes dance,music,costume and often body decoration.
Farm Cove is a tidal inlet and shallow bay in Sydney Harbour,separated from Sydney Cove by Bennelong Point,New South Wales,Australia. Farm Cove is one of the places around Sydney Harbour that has been officially gazetted as a dual named site by the Geographical Names Board (GNB). The official dual name for this place is:'Farm Cove / Wahganmuggalee'.
Woronora is a suburb in southern Sydney,in the state of New South Wales,Australia. Woronora is located 27 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district,in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire. Woronora Heights is a separate suburb,to the south-west.
Michael James Dodson is an Aboriginal Australian barrister,academic,and member of the Yawuru people in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The Gadigal,also spelled as Cadigal and Caddiegal,are a group of Aboriginal people whose traditional lands are located in Gadi,on Eora country,the location of Sydney,New South Wales,Australia. However,since the colonisation of Australia,most Gadigal people have been displaced from their traditional lands
The Dharug language,also spelt Darug,Dharuk,and other variants,and also known as the Sydney language,Gadigal language,is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yuin–Kuric group that was traditionally spoken in the region of Sydney,New South Wales,until it became extinct due to effects of colonisation. It is the traditional language of the Dharug people. The Dharug population has greatly diminished since the onset of colonisation. The term Eora language has sometimes been used to distinguish a coastal dialect from hinterland dialects,but there is no evidence that Aboriginal peoples ever used this term,which simply means "people". Some effort has been put into reviving a reconstructed form of the language.
The Bidjigal people are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are modern-day western,north-western,south-eastern,and southern Sydney,in New South Wales,Australia. The land includes the Bidjigal Reserve,Salt Pan Creek and the Georges River. They are part of the Dharug language group.
The Yuin–Kuric languages are a group of mainly extinct Australian Aboriginal languages traditionally spoken in the south east of Australia. They belong in the Pama–Nyungan family. These languages are divided into the Yuin,Kuri,and Yora groups,although exact classifications vary between researchers. Yuin–Kuric languages were spoken by the original inhabitants of what are now the cities of Sydney and Canberra.
Port Jackson Pidgin English or New South Wales Pidgin English was an English-based pidgin that originated in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales in the early days of colonisation. Stockmen carried it west and north as they expanded across Australia. It subsequently died out in most of the country,but was creolised forming Australian Kriol in the Northern Territory at the Roper River Mission in Ngukurr,where missionaries provided a safe place for Indigenous Australians from the surrounding areas to escape deprivation at the hands of European settlers. As the Aboriginal Australians who came to seek refuge at the Roper River Mission spoke different languages,there grew a need for a shared communication system to develop,and it was this that created the conditions for Port Jackson Pidgin English to become fleshed out into a full language,Kriol,based on the English language and the eight different Australian language groups spoken by those at the mission.
Patyegarang was an Australian Aboriginal woman,thought to be from the Cammeraygal clan of the Dharug nation. Patyegarang taught William Dawes the language of her people and is thought to be one of the first people to have taught an Aboriginal language to the early colonists in New South Wales.
Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay musician and writer in Australia. She is a founding member of the Indigenous folk group Stiff Gins. Her debut novel,Song of the Crocodile,was published in 2020.
Gringerry Kibba Colebee also spelt Colebe,Coleby or Colbee,was an eighteenth-century Gadigal man,an Aboriginal Australian people from present-day Sydney,New South Wales. He was known by the Gweagal as Cadi Colebee.
Wárungin Wángubile Kólbi,better known as Botany Bay Colebee,was an 18th-century Aboriginal Australian man of the Gweagal people.
