Australia’s First Nations population, the Aboriginal Australians ... Australians mainly use two types of boat, dugout canoes and bark canoes. Bark canoes are mainly used for navigating rivers ...

Most of his canoes are wood/canvas, but one is Kevlar and another is covered with Dacron. He also has two birch bark canoes: a 16-foot half-scale model of a 32-foot historic Voyageur-style fur ...

That is how Yananymul Mununggurr describes the creation of the Yirrkala bark petitions ... land rights movement and the ongoing fight for Aboriginal rights in this country. Today, the Yirrkala ...

A new documentary traces the historic journey of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions and the repatriation ... "As soon as there was a strong Aboriginal woman at the heart of the story, it drew me into ...

WA's Liberal leader, Libby Mettam, has echoed the pledge of federal Opposition Leader Petter Dutton to not stand in front of the Aboriginal flag at media events if elected to the top office in March.

Adorned with the totems of 12 Yolngu clans in ochre, charcoal and pipeclay, the Yirrkala Bark Petitions ... One of a host of powerful Aboriginal women who speak up loud and proud in One Mind ...

With its floating stilts and never-ending stream of canoes navigating its narrow water alleys, it boldly emulates Venice despite being world's away. Home to 20,000 people, the intriguing Ganvié ...

(2006) Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview. More from ABC We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands ...

Featuring more than 160 bark paintings hung en masse from floor to ceiling, Bark Salon is a large-scale display of First Nations bark painting that references – and subverts – the traditional European ...

While tea was commonly made from the root bark and young leaves, Native Americans often constructed birch bark canoes, buckets, and baskets. Additionally, the bark has been used to make casts for ...