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clans
Belong to the Wind
Audio and Text
 
clans, Mer, totems, wind
The totem of each named clan
Text
1993
clans, Meriam culture, Stars of Tagai, totems, wind
...swim with the same kind...
Image and Text
 
clans, evidence, Mabo Case, Malo's laws, No Ordinary Judgement, Wailu, Jack, witnesses
...Isn't he the same as the Indian's Great Spirit?...
Video
 
Christianity, clans, Land Bilong Islanders, London Missionary Society, Malo, Malo's laws
Malo's Laws
Topic
 
Christianity, clans, Malo, Malo's laws, Meriam culture, religion
...unlocks the sea...
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ceremony, Christianity, clans, Kaddy, George, Malo, meriam calendar, turtles
...records of those fights about land...
Text
1898-1999
clans, Day, Ron, land disputes, land ownership, Malo's laws, Mer, missionaries, Murray Island Native Court, tribes
The Haddon map of Mer
Image
1935
Cambridge Anthropological Expedition, clans, Haddon, A.C., land boundaries, map, Mer, tribes
Land Boundaries
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boundary markers, clans, inheritance, land ownership, land use, oral tradition
...Piadaram clansmen...
Video
 
clans, Land Bilong Islanders, Las, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Piadaram, Sagir - Trade Winds, Wailu, Jack
Fison & Howitt discover the clan
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anthropology, clans, Fison, Lorimer, Hiatt, Les, Howitt, William Alfred, kinship, land boundaries, land ownership, marriage, Northern Territory
A Sacred Landscape
Topic
 
aboriginal property ownership, anthropology, Australia, clans, dispossession, kinship, land ownership, religion, sacred
Land Disputes
Topic
 
clans, Depoma, Marwer, inheritance, land disputes, land ownership, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Murray Island Native Court
The Eight Clans
Topic
 
clans, Mer, Meriam culture, Murray Island
Plan for local clan rights in Arnhem Land
Newspaper
1977
Arnhem Land, clans, mining