Aboriginal people from areas near inland watercourses.
his family roots are with the freshwater people of central New South Wales
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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.