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

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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?
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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.
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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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