### people:

Aboriginal people
* Many Aboriginal people have strong economic and cultural ties to the forest
  - use electronic mail
* Many aboriginal people are concerned about the appropriation of aboriginal culture
  - believe that the use of such names and mascots is racist
* Most Aboriginal people are at or below the poverty line
  - racially visible within Canadian society
  - speak English as their first or second language
* Some Aboriginal people can still recall their first sightings of camels
  - live along coastal areas and others live in interior areas
* are always interested in who a person is and where they come from
  - amongst the most socially and economically disadvantaged in our country
  - as free and equal as non-Aboriginal Canadians
  - four times as likely to suffer loss or death by house fire
  - nomads by nature
  - over represented among offender populations
  - representatives of the longest surviving cultures in the world
* are the cultural owners and managers of information relating to their heritage
  - experts in addressing issues affecting their communities
  - most disadvantaged group in our society
  - sovereign owners of all of Australia
  - under-represented in almost all conventional labour market industries
* are, and have been for many years, unhappy about the education system.
* call the land 'mother' because it gives everything.
* continue to be overrepresented in the criminal justice system.
* experience discrimination, personal barriers and a lack of social services.
* feel the pain in the death of their culture and land to which they are bound.
* have a detailed knowledge of the natural environment
  - different way of seeing reality
  - kinship system of relationships using skin names
  - low educational status compared with the whole population
  - unique history of being ordered, controlled and monitored by the state
  - ancient legends, songs, and dances that have survived over time
  - close bonding family units and a pride and passion in that bond
  - different opinions about mining
  - highly developed skills which help survival in a very different environment
  - historical rights
  - other connections to land than traditional association
  - sophisticated perspectives on political relations with other peoples
  - the right to define themselves, although legal criteria exist
  - twelve seasons according to what bush food is available
* hold a negative view about research and consultation
  - ceremonies which include dance as part of cultural activity
* know that everything is alive and has a soul, or life's energy.
* maintain a special spiritual relationship with the lands they inhabit.
* regard the land as a spiritual phenomenon.
* remain proudly different.
* say their people have always been here.
* see evidence of profound injustice in many aspects of government policy.
* seek a recognition of their rights as peoples.
* signify inheritance rights by painting images of particular land tracts.
* suffer mass arrests unlike white communities.
* take great pride in their personal and group identity.
+ Alice Springs, The people, Aboriginal population
  * Alice Springs is the business centre of Central Australia. Aboriginal people come from all over the region to use the town's services. Some live farther out at Amoonguna to the south. Many live on the small family outstation communities on Aboriginal Lands in surrounding areas.
+ Kakadu National Park, History, Mining: Protected areas of the Northern Territory :: Ramsar sites :: Australian National Heritage List :: World Heritage Sites in Australia :: National parks in Australia
  * Early in the 1970s large uranium deposits were discovered at Ranger, Jabiluka and Koongarra. The Australian Government began an inquiry into land use in the Alligator Rivers region. The Ranger mine and the service town at Jabiru have had many impacts on Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people have different opinions about mining.