Phillip Noyce

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

Australian Director

Quentin Bryce

The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

Australian Politician

Xavier Rudd

Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

Australian Musician

Jessica Mauboy

We've had real strong aboriginal male artists who've crossed over to the mainstream who have toured the U.K., who have been a massive influence on myself and many, many communities around Australia.

Paul Martin

Canadians would not tolerate it if they really knew there was a whole generation of aboriginal Canadians who have a chance at a better education and are being denied it.

Canadian Politician

Robbie Robertson

The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.

Canadian Musician

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

American Philosopher

Ellsworth Huntington

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

American Educator

Tori Amos

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

American Musician

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I don't know whether I'm half, quarter or what. I just know I'm aboriginal.

Australian Athlete

Use with respect when referring to people, acknowledging their unique cultures and history.

Cultural Sensitivity

Implies deep historical connection to land or customs, often pre-dating colonization.

Historical Respect

Avoid using 'aboriginal' interchangeably with terms like 'tribal' or 'ethnic', which have different meanings.

Not Interchangeable

Used to describe species originating in a place and not introduced from elsewhere.

Species Origin

Refers to the earliest known people or species in a region, prior to others.

First Inhabitants

Reflects the idea of being part of a region's history or ecosystem for a long duration.

Long-term Presence

 but we could let that slip away. The tar sands could threaten not just a large section of the boreal. It compromises the life and the health of some of our most underprivileged and vulnerable people, the aboriginal communities that have so much to teach us. It could destroy the Athabasca Delta,

Garth Lenz: The true...

 asked said no they're very sensitive about cameras culturally and I didn't want to cause any problems so I felt very bad because I've been travelling on Australia for two months and did not have a single picture of a full bladed blooded native Aboriginal and I said

Tweeting in Pitjantjatjar...

 aboriginal territory into mule deer winter range and other important places and archaeological sites in the mid 20th century hydroelectric dams were built on the klamath river preventing salmon from being able to swim upstream to their mating grounds

What It Takes to Keep...

 So the culture, the northern aboriginal culture, traditionally has been highly seasonal. In winter, there's a lot of sleeping going on; you enjoy your family life inside. And in summer, it's almost manic hunting and working activity very long hours,

Our natural sleep cycle...

 tamara says for martin fagger the value of living underground goes well beyond the elusive opal it's a way of life the tradition of underground living in australia has been prized for millennia by aboriginal cultures stretching back

Modern Lives, Ancient...

 just to keep the murray river's mouth open in the midst of the worst drought in history an aboriginal group decides it can wait no longer make you feel sorry to be sad

Dancing the Spirit Back...

 For example, an image of a smile signals joy to modern urban dwellers and aboriginal tribesmen alike. And according to Ekman, anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness,

Can machines read your...

 there wow you got one it's a koala in the tree really really close down to the ground it must be extremely extremely hot an old aboriginal language koala

The Future of Koalas PIPE...

 had lived there uninterruptedly for 80 thousand years this is a picture of ancient aboriginal life and this is a picture of contemporary Aboriginal

The Life of a Photograph...

 And then aboriginal women in Africa would come and say, "This is it!" And I thought, "This is what we need, as a language."