"blacktracker" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From black + tracker. Compare blackfellow.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 236:",
          "text": "At dawn the next day he was away to the Mountain, and with a black-tracker at his heels, explored as much of that wilderness of gully and chasm as nature permitted to him.",
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          "ref": "2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 230:",
          "text": "[N]o one is exempt from the guilt: for we as Aboriginal people were our own blacktracker hunting down Musquito who had in turn hunted down others.",
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        "An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush."
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        "(Australia, now historical) An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush."
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  "etymology_text": "From black + tracker. Compare blackfellow.",
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