Aboriginal people from areas near inland watercourses.
his family roots are with the freshwater people of central New South Wales
Example sentencesExamples
- They are freshwater people and share the region known as the Stone Country in western Arnhem Land with neighbouring language groups.
- Being freshwater people they are skilled in catching animals in the billabong.
- The Gupapuyngu clan are "top of the river" freshwater people.
- Freshwater people were the tribes living on the coastal rivers, whereas the Undumbi or saltwater people lived along the coastline and off the mainland.
- The neighbouring Garrwa see themselves as inland freshwater people.
- There's a whole lot of difference between saltwater people and freshwater people.
- One of our freshwater people made signs that we wanted some water.
- Freshwater people who lived along river systems differed from those whose territory crossed forests.
- To give the two groups their correct distinction, one is a freshwater people, known locally as bush people, the others being saltwater people.
- His mother's tribe were freshwater people.