According to the testimony of one Aboriginal person:

It was then against the law to supply alcohol to an Aboriginal person.

But now it is used to mean 'Aboriginal person' only.

It is usually used to mean 'Aboriginal person', but when being more specific the particular language group name will often be used, where this is known.

October 1837 Giustianini becomes the first white person to defend any Aboriginal person tried in a court of law.

This incident was only the second time that a European had been hanged for the murder of an Aboriginal person.

Bartleman himself is the first Aboriginal person to hold the lieutenant governor's position in Ontario.

Arabanoo was the first Aboriginal person of Australia to live among Europeans.

Critics' responses, however, were mixed, with some questioning whether Oodgeroo, as an Aboriginal person, could really have written it herself.

He was the first named Aboriginal person to appear on an Australian stamp, in 1950.