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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Karraur lunar deity Bamapana, Yolngu trickster spirit who creates discord Banaitja, creator deity Barnumbirr, Yolngu creator spirit Barraiya, creator...
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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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    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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  • Yolngu community who is acknowledged as a leader due to her great knowledge of the Dhuji-Djapu clan, and her father is Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda, a Yolngu leader...
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  • (Galiwin'ku), an island off the coast of Northeast Arnhem Land. Gali was a Yolngu Mala leader and Gälpu clan representative, a clan group of the Dhuwa moiety...
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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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  • Aboriginal Australian kinship comprises the systems of Aboriginal customary law governing social interaction relating to kinship in traditional Aboriginal...
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  • Yunupingu, was an Australian Aboriginal artist and women's leader from the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Born in Gunyangara...
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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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  • 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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    western central Northern Territory Yamatji in central Western Australia Yolngu in eastern Arnhem Land (NT) However, these lists are neither exhaustive...
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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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  • Mulkuṉ Wirrpanda was born in 1947, part of the Dhudi-Djapu clan of the Yolngu people, from the homeland of Dhuruputjpi. Her father was community leader...
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  • mythology At-Tariq, a chapter of the Quran Barnumbirr, a creator-spirit in the Yolngu culture of Australia Jesus, self-described as "the bright Morning Star"...
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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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    moiety relations (such as in the case of Wangarr relationships for the Yolngu). Torres Strait Islanders have auguds, typically translated as totems. An...
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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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    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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  • as "Survival Day" or "Invasion Day" by Indigenous peoples. In 1963 the Yolngu people of Yirrkala in Arnhem Land sent two bark petitions to the Australian...
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  • In Yolngu mythology, Bamapana is a trickster god who causes discord. He is obscene and profane and once committed incest, thus breaking a strict taboo...
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