Tag rename: [australian] -> [australian-aboriginal] or [australian-aborigines]

Question

Currently, the 'australian' tag is used to represent the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime stories.

However these stories aren't 'Australian' in terms of the current country & the culture introduced by Britain's subsequent settlement. Just as Roman myths and legends are known as roman and not italian, they are unique to the Aboriginal culture and thus should be tagged as such.

I propose these questions be retagged australian-aboriginal or australian-aborigines.

_{'aboriginal' can be used to represent the original peoples of the world over, not just Australian aboriginals, thus it probably shouldn't be a tag to represent just Australian Aborigines by itself}

Answer 1

Yes, I can see the reasoning behind this proposed change to the tag. It is a crucially important cultural point that australian could be construed as been about modern Australian culture, which is quite apart from the australian-aborigines.

It is not really possible to make a tag for each Aboriginal Nation, a map of the myriad of Nations (based on language is shown below):

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An alternative naming of the tag could be indigenous-australian

Answer 2

The Aboriginal Australian people are most commonly referred to as Aboriginal Australians. We should make tags based on the more populist terminology. The term Indigenous Australian is technically correct as well, but normally includes both the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders. The latter are Melanesian and considered distinct from the mainland Aboriginals.

From Wikipedia:

The term "Aboriginal" is traditionally applied to only the indigenous inhabitants of mainland Australia and Tasmania, along with some of the adjacent islands, i.e., the "first peoples". Indigenous Australians is an inclusive term used when referring to both Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders.

I suggest that questions on Aboriginal mythology should use one of aboriginal-australian or australian-aboriginal or australian-aborigines, with the others marked as synonyms.

Questions on the mythology of Torres Islanders could either be tagged with their own torres-islande, or use a more generalmelanesian tag.

The indigenous-australians tag could perhaps be used for questions on both groups, or question on general indigenous Australian beliefs without specifying a subgroup (e.g. does any indigenous Australian group believe that...?), or possibly a synonym to a main aboriginal tag.