Aboriginal National Historic Sites Of Canada
Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to: *Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology * Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area *One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see List of indigenous peoples, including: **Aboriginal Australians (Aborigine is an archaic term that is considered offensive) **Indigenous peoples in Canada, also known as Aboriginal Canadians **Orang Asli or Malayan aborigines **Taiwanese indigenous peoples, formerly known as Taiwanese aborigines See also

* * *Australian Aboriginal English *Australian Aboriginal identity *Aboriginal English in Canada *First Nations (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Aborigines (mythology)
The Aborigines in Roman mythology are the oldest inhabitants of central Italy, connected in legendary history with Aeneas, Latinus and Evander. They were supposed to have descended from their mountain home near Reate (an ancient Sabine town) upon Latium, where they expelled the Sicels and subsequently settled down as Latini under a King Latinus.Dr. Leonhard Schmitz ''A History of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Commodus, A.D. 192.'' p.8-9 Dionysius of Halicarnassus. ''Roman Antiquities'', I.9. Etymology The most generally accepted etymology of the Latin word aborigines is that it derives from ', according to which they were the original inhabitants of the country, although Cato the Elder regarded them as Hellenic immigrants, not as a native Italian people. Other etymological explanations suggested are ', meaning " tree-born," and ', meaning "nomads". Lycophron calls a people of central Italy, '. Background The Aborigines were possibly descendants of the Pelasgi ...
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