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Australia..The area is marked by an overall similarity in both climatic conditions... and physiographical characteristics. More important, however, is its delineation as a distinct culture area.. its Aboriginal inhabitants share a common language (with dialectal variations), social organization, relationship to the natural environment, religion and mythology and aesthetic expression. The term Western Desert, then refers to both a cultural bloc and a geographical entity.
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determination by all holders of native title claimed" had to determine whether a
Western Desert Cultural Bloc (WDCB) society existed before colonisation. The judgment held that such a society existed in 1829, and continues to exist today.
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European colonisation of Australia, the Western Desert peoples may have numbered as many as 10,000, but that by the late 1950s, their numbers were down to between 1,371 and 2,200. Apart from the
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A 2018 native title determination determined that the Lappi Lappi and
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