An Aboriginal Australian person or, historically, someone of mixed Aboriginal and European descent.
From Australian Aboriginal languages, entering English through colonial Australian contact. The term has complex historical usage reflecting colonial attitudes and racial categories of the era.
This word carries heavy historical baggage from the colonial period when Europeans classified people by racial categories—it's a reminder that language itself can encode now-rejected ideas about identity and belonging.
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