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• Warlugulong 1977: Aboriginal artist's painting sold for $2.1 million

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:48 am

  Tags: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Auctions, Aboriginal Art, Warlugulong, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

  people s interest in the aboriginal art. So, who bought the masterpiece? It s not some millionaire but the Australian National Gallery in Canberra. Via EliteChoice

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• And so it's come to this

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:11 am

  Tags: Liberals, Rudd, Alp, Aboriginal Australians, Howard

  Labor has again failed Aboriginal Australia.Whoever wins power later this year, it's irrelevant to Aboriginal people. Governments can legislate, but Aboriginal people will not assimilate. This sort of legislation was tried in the early 1900s and failed abysmally, these bills will do the same. Unbelievable. This greatest change in

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• Mainstream

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:45 am

  Tags: Aboriginal Australians

  NT blathering on about how Aboriginal Australians will only succeed if they become part of the Mainstream and gain slices of prosperity that this great brown girted land can offer.Howard naturally is discussing 99 year leases and trying to force Aboriginals to buy homes - despite the fact many of them are barely functional as proper housing and

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• Birds Of A Feather; Strahl & Morton

  Published: August 31, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: Ted Morton, Stephen Harper, Chuck Strahl, First Nations, Aboriginal

  in 1999, on the subject of aboriginal fishing rights, that the government has an obligation to all its citizens, not just select groups and "cannot allow the courts to draw racial boundaries through Canada's national resources."SEE:Native America and the Evolution of Democracy Aboriginal Property

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• John Harper Stephen Howard

  Published: September 13, 2007, 6:06 pm

  Tags: Canada, Colonialization, Assimilation, First Nations, British Colonialism, Australia, Aboriginal

  policy of just saying No to aboriginal rights. the government of Canada has profound reservations about elements of the draft. And our government's position is we shouldn't vote for things on the basis of political correctness, we should actually vote on the basis of what's in the document and whether or not the government of Canada can and

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• Hul'Qumi'num Treaty Group publishes Treaty Negotitiors handbooks.

  Published: October 10, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Aboriginal Affairs, Culture, First Nations, Politics

  Robert Morales of the Hul'Qumi'num Treaty Group talks about the publications designed to help understand what's expected by First Nations in Treaty arrangements.read more

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• Our Urban Spaces in Peril

  Published: November 20, 2007, 12:42 am

  Tags: Society, Aboriginal, Ethnicity, Indigenous, Racialism, Racist, Sydney, Wiley Blackwell, Wilteness

  Urban space is being colonized and gentrified by invisible forces such as urbanism and white domination according to a new Wiley-Blackwell publication Cities of Whiteness .

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• Visitors to Uluru Will Forgo Climbing the Sacred Rock

  Published: November 25, 2007, 7:01 pm

  Tags: World, Aboriginal, Australia, Sacred Rock, Uluru, Wiley Blackwell

  Many visitors will forgo climbing Uluru if given advanced and accurate information about its Aboriginal owner's perspective.

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• 2010 Olympic mascots unveiled

  Published: November 27, 2007, 3:11 pm

  Tags: British Columbia, British Columbia, Mascot, Michael, Murphy, Sumi, Vancouver, Aboriginal, Adopted, Creature, Culture, Games, Graphic, Looks, Meomi, Miga, Mukmuk, Mythic, Olympic, Orca, Organizers, Paralympic, Quatchi, Sasquatch, Sports, Thunderbird, Unveiled, Vancouve

  Well the moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived...the official 2010 mascots have been revealed! Not surprisingly, they draw inspiration from First Nations creatures and they've arrived in the modified...read more

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• DAMIRworld at a Native Indian pow wow powwow.

  Published: December 2, 2007, 12:31 pm

  Tags: Celebration, Pride, Aboriginal, Catcher, Damir, Damirworld, Dream, Indian, Interesting, Native, News, Offbeat, Peace, People, Pow Wow, Powwow, Teepee, Tipi

  Where do I start and where do I end. I guess thats the point about a pow wow. There is no beginning and there is also no end. A spiritual journey never has either. Language as we know it, has no expression, catch...read more

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• Iconic Canadian painter Norval Morrisseau dies at 75

  Published: December 5, 2007, 3:01 pm

  Tags: Canada, Canadian, Foremost, Hospital, Ojibwa, Ontario, Aboriginal, Advanced, Artist, Culture, Culturite, Dies, Disease, Founder, Iconic, Morrisseau, Norval, Painter, Painting, Parkinson, Passed, Picasso, Self Taught, Shaman, Style, Suffering, Teaching, Thunderbird

  A former roommate of mine re-introduced me to the work of the great Aboriginal artist Norval Morrisseau. One of his paintings was hung prominently in our apartment and I spent many hours lost in contemplation of its...read more

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• Zorba the Greek Goes Aboriginal Style

  Published: January 2, 2008, 8:51 am

  Tags: Art, Aboriginal, Art, Artists, Chooky Dancers, Dance, Dancers, Zorba The Greek

  and supporter of the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association, TEABBA Radio. Frank can be reached by email at f_garawirrtja@yahoo.com or 0427 801 699 by phone, and messages can be left with TEABBA Radio at 89 390 400. Zorba the Greek Aboriginal Style Zorba the Greek Aboriginal Style Take 2 Sources: Daily Telegraph, Telegraph

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• Now that's a counterpoint!

  Published: February 4, 2008, 6:17 am

  Tags: Aboriginal Australians

  in London was alleging that Aboriginal people in northern Australia worked in conditions "no better than slavery". - In the 1940s, numerous reports of Aboriginal people starving on northern pastoral stations began to emerge. - By the 1950s, it was still legal in Queensland to contract children under 12 years of age into work, provided you got

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• Stolen generation audience stolen

  Published: February 10, 2008, 4:02 am

  Tags: Andrew Bolt, Aboriginal Australians

  Australia: A busload of Aboriginal activists invited to attend Federal parliament to hear an historic apology from the new federal government has been stolen according to police sources. 'The bus was waylaid by masked bandits on that driveway between the old and new parliament houses according to witnesses,' said the source. 'They apparently

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• Still (not) sorry after all these years

  Published: February 8, 2008, 7:56 am

  Tags: John Howard, Aboriginal Australians

  News flash. You're never going to believe it. But John Howard, who is still gobbling at the tax payer teat (like all ex PMs it should be noted) thanks to his unfeasibly large pension, won't be in attendance at parliament when the big long awaited sorry is said.He must be sick or something. Poor man. I hope he has a bex and a good lie down.What the

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