aboriginal adj
1. being or composed of people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia" [syn: native] [ant: nonnative]
2. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn: primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial] n : a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo, native Australian, Australian Aborigine]

Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, a. [See Aborigines.]
1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. ``Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf.'' --Wordsworth.
2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.

Aboriginal \Ab`o*rig"i*nal\, n.
1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.
2. An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. --Darwin.

Indigenous Australians, also known as Australian Aborigines, are the native people of Australia. They used weapons like boomerangs to kill animals for food. Many of them suffered when white people from Britain arrived in Australia, because of disease, the loss of their hunting lands, and unfair laws. Aborigines have their own type of art.

The first people of Australia were nomadic (wandering) people who came to Australia from southeast Asia. Scientists do not know exactly when they arrived but it is somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago. . Most live in cities, but a few thousand still try to follow a traditional way of life. Aborigines have a unique way of traveling around, they use songs passed from generation to generation.

Aboriginal Australians believe that they have animal, plant, and human ancestors who created the world and everything in it. This process of creation is called Dreamtime. There are many songs and stories about Dreamtime, which generations of aboriginal people have passed down to their children.

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