Sentence examples for aborigines from from inspiring English sources

The European settlers viciously drove the Aborigines from their lands, massacring thousands with impunity.

Australians voted overwhelmingly then to repeal a clause that had excluded aborigines from being counted in the census.

In Tasmania this criterion suits the Aborigines from the Bass Strait islands, whose histories are thoroughly recorded in consequence of their separate treatment by the government.

Amends were first made in 1967, when Australians overwhelmingly supported a referendum to repeal a clause that had excluded aborigines from being counted in the census.

The Orang Rimba, which means people of the jungle in the Bahasa language, comprise about 2,000 aborigines from Jambi province in central Sumatra.

They still lag behind the rest of Australia in health, education and life expectancy.In 1967 Australians voted overwhelmingly to drop a clause from the constitution that had excluded aborigines from being counted in the census.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley, a Wiradjuri Aborigine from Australia, won the Wimbledon women's title in 1971 and again in 1980.

It will be filled by either Josh Morris or Jharal Yow Yeh, the young Aborigine from Brisbane who has made such an impact in his first full season.

Dennis Foley, an Aborigine from a prominent Sydney clan and a lecturer in indigenous studies at the University of Sydney, said some Aborigines believed that "white fellas want us to break down and disappear".

The saddest expression of the poisonous infighting that now seemed endemic came when the bones of 19th-century Aborigines, returned from European museums, were stolen from safekeeping on Aboriginal property by Aborigines hostile to Tac.

The AIATSIS collection also includes a 1969 card from a Weet Bix breakfast cereal box, "Aborigines Voting" from a series titled "The World of the Aborigine".