Aborigines: 'I was terrified. I didn't know anything about white fellas' Until 1964, they had never been in contact with the outside world. Newly discovered footage captures the moment their ...

NAIDOC Week is an opportunity to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, talents and resilience and ...

The aborigines briefly took center stage again in February of 2008, when former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a speech formally apologizing to them for their "past mistreatment." ...

Few aborigines remain to tell the tale--only about 390,000 members of nine tribes, or less than 2% of Taiwan’s population of 23 million. Unemployment and poor health plague aboriginal communities.

For millennia, coastal Aborigines had been skilled canoeists and dry-land subsistence; in fact, the centrepiece of the exhibition – called Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys 1790-1850 – is a full ...

Aborigines remain the country's poorest and most disadvantaged group, and Rudd has made improving their lives one of his government's top priorities. "This is a historic day," said Tom Calma, who ...

Aborigines young and old strut their stuff to the hypnotic humming of didgeridoos, a traditional wind instrument made from sections of hollowed-out tree limbs.

“The Aborigines that I recognized in the television reportage of the protests don’t really have a role in the Aboriginal community.,” said Marcia Langton, the head of Australian indigenous ...

Aborigines challenging proposals to dump nuclear waste from northern Scotland to a sacred Australian site have won a breakthrough meeting with government officials about their concerns ...

Aborigines held an historic ceremony in Australia's national Parliament on Tuesday that many hoped would mark a new era of race relations in the country. With faces painted white and with a ...

FREELAND, Md. -- For thousands of years, Australian aborigines have painstakingly harvested the hollow branches of eucalyptus trees to make didgeridoos, their sacred musical instrument. Aborigines ...