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Hundreds of different languages, customs and laws woven together tell a story of Aboriginal culture that is more than 40,000 years old.
See Australia through Aboriginal eyes and live their centuries-old culture through traditional stories, dance and paintings. Aboriginal communities dot the outback landscape and bring it to life. Creation stories, traditional laws and customs passed down through paintings and inscriptions have kept Aboriginal culture alive for tens of thousands of years.
Ancient Aboriginal art is well preserved across the Northern Territory. You can see the first impressions of European contact in rock-art at World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park. The Northern Territory is home to Australia’s largest population of Aboriginal people, making up 30 per cent of the population.
Take a bush-tucker tour, enjoy story telling, learn to play a didgeridoo or watch a traditional dance performance by Aboriginal people.
Did you know?
Yolgnu Matha is the second most spoken language in the NT after English.
Aborigines in the western desert of Central Australia lived traditionally until European contact in 1984.
Aboriginal people can have four names, for example a European first name and surname, a bush name, a 'skin name' (based on 'skin names' of parents) and perhaps a nickname.
The 7000 Yolgnu people in Arnhem Land are all related and intimately know how each person is connected.
The two sisters Dreamtime story is shared by all language groups from Port Augusta in South Australia to the Darwin peninsula.
Aboriginal people recognise up to six seasons of the year. These seasons have distinctive attributes and relationships with the land and relate to the availability of bush food.
