Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians posts cover the First Nations peoples of the continent and the Torres Strait Islands. Articles look at the long timeline of more than sixty thousand years of continuous occupation, the language families and the loss of many languages after European contact, Dreaming stories and Country, the long fight for land rights from the Yirrkala bark petitions through the Mabo decision in 1992, the Stolen Generations and the 2008 apology, and the ongoing role of Aboriginal art markets in Arnhem Land and the Western Desert. The pieces try to use community-preferred language and to credit specific groups by name where possible.