User:Wasechun tashunka/sandbox/Indigenous peoples of Australia/Did you know


 * ... Min-min-light-sign-boulia-outback-queensland-australia.jpg that Indigenous Australians believe that the number of Min Min light sightings has increased with the number of Europeans venturing into the outback?
 * ... that traditionally, Aboriginal Tasmanians sourced ochre from sites throughout Tasmania, the most celebrated of which is Toolumbunner in the Gog Range in NW Tasmania?
 * ... that anyone may be invited to participate in Corroboree, although the songs and dances require a great deal of knowledge and skill to perform?
 * ... [[File:Part of the UNESCO listed Australian Indigenous Language collection held at AIATSIS.JPG|100x100px]] that the AIATSIS holds over 6 million feet of film, 653,000 photographs, and 3,000 rare books relating to the oral and visual traditions and histories of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
 * ... that Wollumbin, the local Aboriginal name for Mount Warning, means "cloud-catcher" or "fighting chief of the mountains"?
 * ... that Indigenous Australian sandpainting is used to mark territory, record history, and tell stories about The Dreaming.
 * ... MtCoonowrin.jpg that Mount Coonowrin is the subject of a number of Aboriginal tales, and said to be the son of Tibrogargan and Beerwah?
 * ... that scarred trees are significant evidence of historical Aboriginal occupation, as scars remain in trees for over 200 years?
 * ... that until the 1967 Australian Referendum, Indigenous Australians were excluded from the census?

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