Aboriginal people from coastal areas.
distinctive notions of directions evolved in the language of these saltwater people
Example sentencesExamples
- How might accountability toward others and care for the sea that saltwater people claim as their birthright be built into modern fishing enterprise?
- The 1992 conference in Darwin brought home to me the aesthetic wholeness of the saltwater people's relationship with the sea.
- We sat in his office near the waterfront and he told me how he saw Aboriginal saltwater people.
- Saltwater people are fishing people who live on small islands, often with little land of their own.
- It was not until the 1970s that saltwater people's claims to foreshore, reef, and waters and marine life began to receive attention worldwide.
- I wondered how I might begin investigating the contrast between saltwater people and mainlanders.
- The saltwater people dared not come onshore.
- They encouraged both bush and saltwater people to reside together in coastal mission villages.
- I had heard her relatives' comments on the saltwater people, who were at the same time relatives and 'strange people' who 'do not know about our culture'.
- Saltwater people today see native title rights to the sea as a stepping stone to a long-overdue economic independence.