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    The Yolngu or Yolŋu (IPA: [ˈjuːlŋʊ] or [ˈjuːŋuːl]) are an aggregation of Aboriginal Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern...
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    'Yolŋu tongue', is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the Yolŋu and Yuulngu languages), the indigenous people of...
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    specific type of the instrument made and used by the Yolngu peoples of north-east Arnhem Land. Some Yolngu people began using the word mandapul after 2011...
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  • Yolngu Boy is a 2001 Australian coming-of-age film directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson, produced by Patricia Edgar, Gordon Glenn, Galarrwuy Yunupingu and...
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  • Northern Territory and subsequently settled closer to Yolngu homelands, conflicts with the Yolngu became more frequent. In 1931, an area of 96,000 square...
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  • loses control of an operation that results in the massacre of a group of Yolngu people in Arnhem Land in 1919. After his superiors insist on burying the...
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  • Sean Mununggurr is an Australian actor. He has appeared in the films Yolngu Boy, Lucky Miles and High Ground. For his role in High Ground he was nominated...
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    Yothu Yindi (category Yolngu)
    Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for "child and mother", pronounced /jɒθuː ˈjɪndi/) are an Australian musical group with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members, formed...
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  • Yolŋu (Yolngu) or Murngin Sign Language is a ritual sign language used by the Yolngu, an Aboriginal community in the Arnhem Land region of Australia....
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  •  balander Walker, Alan & Zorc, R. David (1981). "Austronesian Loanwords in Yolngu-Matha of Northeast Arnhem Land" (PDF). Aboriginal History. 5: 124. Merriam-Webster...
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  • provide downloadable and printable posters showing each group's calendar. The Yolngu, the Aboriginal Australians of north-east Arnhem Land, identify six seasons...
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    recorded to have happened at Mirki on the north coast of Florida Station. The Yolngu people today remember this massacre where many people including children...
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  • Stephen Maxwell Johnson is an Australian filmmaker, best known for his films Yolngu Boy (2001) and High Ground (2020). He is also known for directing Yothu...
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    of Arrernte mythology Bamapana, Yolngu trickster spirit who creates discord Banaitja, creator deity Barnumbirr, Yolngu creator spirit Barraiya, creator...
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  • Baykali Ganambarr (category Yolngu people)
    Baykali Ganambarr (born 30 August 1994) is an Yolngu actor and dancer. He received the 2018 Marcello Mastroianni Award for his role in The Nightingale...
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    anthropologists, the extensive influence of the trepang industry on the Yolngu people suggests a longer period of contact. Arnhem Land Aboriginal rock...
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    oral histories comprising complex narratives have been passed down by Yolngu people through hundreds of generations. The Aboriginal rock art, dated by...
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  • Aboriginal Australian kinship comprises the systems of Aboriginal customary law governing social interaction relating to kinship in traditional Aboriginal...
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  • A lunar deity is a deity who represents the Moon, or an aspect of it. Lunar deities and Moon worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in...
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  • Baijini are a mythical people mentioned in the Djanggawul song cycle of the Yolngu people, an Aboriginal Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory...
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    Spear, Wawalag (or Wagalak) sisters, Bat and the Butterfly, and Mimis. Yolngu mythology. Australian Government 'portal' on Aboriginal 'Dreamings' and...
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    Mandawuy Yunupingu (category Yolngu people)
    and was principal for the following two years. He helped establish the Yolngu Action Group and introduced the both-ways education system, which recognised...
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  • the film High Ground. Marika was born into the Rirratjingu clan of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory of Australia, and raised in Yirrkala...
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  • Some Tagalog and Cebuano speakers have [ɐ] rather than [a], and Dhangu Yolngu is described as having /ɪ ɐ ʊ/, without any peripheral vowels. [i] is also...
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    was selected by Baz Luhrmann to sing "Somewhere over the Rainbow" in the Yolngu language in his 2008 film Australia. Nicholas David, a contestant on the...
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    state to confer state voting rights on Aboriginal people. In 1963, the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land sent a bark petition to the Australian parliament...
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    Women's string-figure depicting "menstrual blood of three women", illustrating the Yolngu people's tribal mythology of menstrual synchrony....
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  • charts. The song contains lyrics in Gumatj, one of the Yolngu Matha dialects and a language of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in northern Australia. The song...
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    and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Aboriginal Anthropology focusing on Yolngu Cosmology (focusing on beliefs regarding the nature of existence and how...
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    ornithologist. he is known for his studies of and friendship with the Pintupi and Yolngu peoples, and for his intervention in the Caledon Bay crisis. Donald Finlay...
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