Koorie

Noun

Koori (plural Kooris or Koories)

1. (New-South-Wales, Australian Aboriginal, chiefly Victoria) An indigenous Australian.
   • C. S. of Stawell wrote to ‘point out some facts associated with Aboriginal myths of Dreamtime’. He denied a Koori presence (‘no Aboriginals ever entered the Grampians due to evil spirits’) and repeated a dominant pioneer folk myth that the rock-art was painted by ‘a French artist who had a great...1996, Sarah Nuttall, Text, Theory, Space: Post-Colonial Representations and Identity, page 175