Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the native people of Australia. They include the Aboriginal Australians as well as Torres Strait Islanders and are often known together as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.^[1]

The first Indigenous Australians were hunter-gatherers, who migrated from Southeast Asia. Scientists do not know exactly when (or how) they arrived, but it was at least 60,000 years ago.^[2][3][4][5]

Many Indigenous Australians suffered starting in 1788, when the first Europeans arrived. Many caught diseases from the Europeans (British and Irish people) and/or lost their hunting lands.^[6]

1. ↑ Studies, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (12 July 2020). "Indigenous Australians: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people". aiatsis.gov.au.
2. ↑ Hesp, Patrick A. et al 1999. Aboriginal occupation on Rottnest Island, Western Australia, provisionally dated by aspartic acid racemisation assay of land snails to greater than 50 ka. Australian Archaeology, No 49 (1999)
3. ↑ "Stone Pages Archaeo News: Australia colonized earlier than previously thought?". stonepages.com. 2003. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
4. ↑ "Dreaming Online: Indigenous Australian Timeline". www.dreamtime.net.au. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
5. ↑ Clarkson, Chris; Jacobs, Zenobia; et al. (19 July 2017). "Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago" (PDF). Nature. 547 (7663): 306–310. Bibcode:2017Natur.547..306C. doi:10.1038/nature22968. hdl:2440/107043. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28726833. S2CID 205257212.
6. ↑ "Indigenous and European Contact in Australia". Britannica Kids. Retrieved 2021-06-07.