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Giving cities aboriginal names is it helpful/
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Aboriginals identified places by land, water features and food, not by the structures that were built by settlers. I agree with Indyvidual, that geographical features could be renamed as by previous aboriginal family.
Posted by Josephus, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 7:48:29 AM
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mhaze,
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Posted by Foxy, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 2:06:20 PM
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If they renamed a town after some of the extreme old posters here, they would call it BIGOTSVILLE. Ah!
Posted by Paul1405, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 3:09:15 PM
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Dear Paul,
Certain places have already been renamed. Uluru comes to mind. Indigenous names can strengthen community connections and promote reconciliation. Towards the end of 2021 it was announced that the world's largest sand island was returning to its First Nation's name, Fraser Island, which was to be known as K'gari. The local Butchulla people and many Australians across the country celebrated this significant name change. The local people had been campaigning for this for years which now sees Fraser Island returned to a word meaning "Paradise". Using traditional First Nations names for places like Uluru, Fraser Island, and others, both acknowledges and celebrates the connection of First Nations people to those places and their long-standing connections which space tens and tens of thousands of years. Name changes of places are significant in that they are a step in the multi-layered truth-telling process. The following link explains further: http://cela.org.au/publications/amplify-blog/jan-2022/how-incorporating-indigenous-place-names Posted by Foxy, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 3:27:21 PM
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Whoops, I left out the exclamation mark in the link. Here it
is again: http://cela.org.au/publications/amplify!-blog/jan-2022/how-incorporating-indigenous-place-names Posted by Foxy, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 3:35:22 PM
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I often visit AOTEAROA, The Land Of The Long White Cloud, about a dozen times or more in the past 10 years. and as far as I know it doesn't resemble an island in Denmark, its not that cold.
Posted by Paul1405, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 7:02:10 PM
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