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Blackfella(alsoblackfellah,blackfulla,black fella,orblack fellah) is an informal term inAustralian Englishto refer toIndigenous Australians,in particularAboriginal Australians,most commonly among themselves.[1][2][3]
Similarly, the termwhitefella,especially in Aboriginal use, refers to non-Aboriginal orEuropean Australians.[4][5]
See also
[edit]- "Blackfella/Whitefella",a song byWarumpi Band,co-written by singerGeorge Rrurrambuand guitaristNeil Murray.[6]
- Blackfella Films,a film production company founded and run byRachel Perkins
- Blackfellas,1993 film adaptation ofArchie Weller's 1981 novelThe Day of the Dog
- Indigenous Australians § Terms "Black" and "Blackfella"
- Koori,demonym used by Aboriginal people inVictoriaandNew South Wales
- List of Australian Aboriginal group names
- Black Australians (disambiguation)
References
[edit]- ^"Appropriate Terminology, Indigenous Australian Peoples"(PDF).General Information Folio 5.Flinders University.Retrieved14 June2020– via ipswich.gld.gov.au.
Information adapted fromUsing the right words: appropriate terminology for Indigenous Australian studies1996 in Teaching the Teachers: Indigenous Australian Studies for Primary Pre-Service Teacher Education. School of Teacher Education,University of New South Wales
- ^"Recommended Guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Terminology"(PDF).Queensland University of Technology.17 March 2015.Retrieved14 June2020.
- ^"Indigenous Australians: Torres Strait Islanders: Working with Indigenous Australians".www.workingwithindigenousaustralians.info.Retrieved18 June2022.
- ^"Whitefella".Lexico Dictionaries.Archived fromthe originalon 15 May 2021.Retrieved18 June2022.
- ^"Wadjula".Macquarie Dictionary.Retrieved18 June2022.
- ^Bisley, Alexander (14 April 2015)."Blackfella/Whitefella by Warumpi Band – Australia's seminal reconciliation song".The Guardian.Retrieved27 February2018.