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has gloss | eng: The Spinifex people, or Pila Nguru, are an Indigenous Australian people, whose traditional lands are situated in the Great Victoria Desert, in the Australian state of Western Australia, adjoining the border with South Australia, to the north of the Nullarbor Plain. They maintain in large part their traditional hunter-gatherer existence within the territory Their common name comes from the Spinifex grasses, which are prevalent in this desert region. Their lands have long been seen by European settlers of the region as remote, inhospitable and unsuited for agriculture, and even pastoralism; consequently, there has been comparatively little direct contact. |
lexicalization | eng: Spinifex People |
instance of | (noun) a member of a hunting and gathering society hunter-gatherer |
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has gloss | deu: Die Spinifex People (auch Pila Ngura) sind ein Stamm der Aborigines, der in der Großen Victoria-Wüste (424.400 km²) und auf der Nullarbor-Ebene (ca. 200.000 km²) in Australien lebt. Der Stamm hatte in den 1950er Jahren erstmals Kontakt mit Weißen, als die gemeinsamen Kernwaffentests (1950–1963) von britischer und australischer Regierung mit dem Maralinga-Projekt auf dem sogenannten Emu-Feld begannen. Die Entdeckung war seinerzeit eine Sensation. |
lexicalization | deu: Spinifex People |
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