Dictionary definition: aborigine

Article: Australia Aborigines and Bush Tucker
Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World;      700+ words ... ... FOODS OF THE ABORIGINES The Aborigines ate simple, balanced diets ... crevices or in muddy riverbanks. Aborigines used many different ways to ... According to legend, an Aborigine hunter would catch a bee ... Native plants and animals the Aborigines ate became known as bush tucker ...

Article: Aborigines' needs: no priority in Australia
International Herald Tribune;  April 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Australians embrace successful Aborigines, he said, and some who really ... national heroes. But ''if Aborigines are not glamorous and successful ... Hickey, a 17-year-old Aborigine, this year in Sydney, in ... the overwhelming gap between Aborigines and the white population back ...

Article: Aborigine fury as `false image' sells Olympics
The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 17, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Sol Bellear, an Aborigine and an adviser to the ... romanticised vision of Aborigines because of the way ... Visitors hoping to meet Aborigine people however will ... are indigenous, and Aborigines are rarely seen in ... The city's small Aborigine community keeps a low ...

Article: Plight of the Aborigines
New Straits Times;  May 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... treasure to discover. The Aborigines make up a very important ... history. The word "Aborigine" comes from a Latin ... Australia named them Aborigines. There has been much ... had befriended an old Aborigine man and gave him some ... Apparently, the Aborigines believe that when one ...

Article: Aborigines seek native land rights
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  June 2, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... investment dollars in jeopardy. Aborigines, languishing at the bottom ... among 19 million Australians, Aborigines are the poorest, sickest ... Party and only the second Aborigine to hold a seat in federal ... Mabo judgment did not give Aborigines ownership of ancestral lands ...

Article: Black and blue: Australia. (aborigines)
The Economist (US);  May 2, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... Fosters too many, but aborigines are not so fortunate ... in jail rose by 25%. Aborigines make up about 1.5 ... detention centres are aborigine. Even Aussies with no great feelings for aborigines were shocked recently ...

Article: Court Paves Way for Australia's Aborigines to Press Land ...
The Washington Post;  April 3, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... worth millions of dollars to aborigines, Mabo's widow has said ... including about 229,000 aborigines and 28,000 Torres Strait ... percent of the population. Aborigine culture and spiritual life ... caused "the dispossession of aborigines from their lands and the breakdown ...