distinctive notions of directions evolved in the language of these saltwater people
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How might accountability toward others and care for the sea that saltwater people claim as their birthright be built into modern fishing enterprise?
The 1992 conference in Darwin brought home to me the aesthetic wholeness of the saltwater people's relationship with the sea.
We sat in his office near the waterfront and he told me how he saw Aboriginal saltwater people.
Saltwater people are fishing people who live on small islands, often with little land of their own.
It was not until the 1970s that saltwater people's claims to foreshore, reef, and waters and marine life began to receive attention worldwide.
I wondered how I might begin investigating the contrast between saltwater people and mainlanders.
The saltwater people dared not come onshore.
They encouraged both bush and saltwater people to reside together in coastal mission villages.
I had heard her relatives' comments on the saltwater people, who were at the same time relatives and 'strange people' who 'do not know about our culture'.
Saltwater people today see native title rights to the sea as a stepping stone to a long-overdue economic independence.