Koori

The Koori (also spelled Koorie) are the indigenous Australians that traditionally occupied modern day New South Wales and Victoria. Many indigenous Australians object to the use of the terms 'Aborigine' and 'Aboriginal', as terms which had been forced on them. They prefer to use words from their own languages. In some languages of south-east Australia (parts of New South Wales and Victoria), the words: coorie, kory, kuri, kooli, koole mean 'perso... more
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