The phrase "aboriginal descent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals or groups who are the original inhabitants of a region, particularly in the context of Indigenous peoples.
Example: "She is proud of her heritage and identifies as being of aboriginal descent."
Alternatives: "Indigenous ancestry" or "native heritage."
I am of Aboriginal descent (Martu).
At age 16 she was rejected for nurse's training because of her Aboriginal descent.
It was long a major centre for people of mixed European and Aboriginal descent.
Then William Barton, an Australian of Aboriginal descent, came into view, walking slowly down the aisle playing his instrument.
In Tasmania only a very few persons of full Tasmanian Aboriginal descent survived by 1860, and they were the last.
He served on the jury for the Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts Challenge, a writing and visual arts competition for youth of Aboriginal descent.
The interviewers were of non-Aboriginal descent, and this cultural difference could have negatively impacted the data collection process.
The study design, data extraction details and definition of Aboriginality (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent) have been described elsewhere [ 10, 11].
Further, wherever European settlement was intensive, miscegenation took place, and Aborigines of mixed descent eventually outnumbered those with full Aboriginal ancestry in southern and eastern Australia.
If so, didn't the nascent "American people" encompass only those of European descent but not those of African (to say nothing of aboriginal) origin?
A 19th century leader of the Métis, people of mixed Aboriginal-European descent, Riel helped found the province of Manitoba, but he led two rebellions for Métis rights - the Red River Rebellion of 1869-1870 and the North-West Rebellion of 1885.
