Aboriginal Peoples: A Teachers Guide to Online Resources

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Aboriginal Identities Aboriginal Autonomy Aboriginal Visual Arts

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Aboriginal Interaction with Legal and Political Systems Click on a link to view resources connected to the topic

Aboriginal Film and Television

Aboriginal Peoples and the Media

Aboriginal Technologies and the Environment Aboriginal Performing Arts

Aboriginal Enterprises and Organisations Aboriginal Oral and Written Expression Aboriginal Peoples and Sport

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Senior Secondary Curriculum: Resources guide Aboriginality and the Land Heritage and Identity
International Indigenous Community
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Research and Inquiry Methods

Social Justice and Human Rights Issues

Life Skills/Modified Curriculum

Aboriginal Identities
Webpage
http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcultu re/people/aboriginal-identity-who-isaboriginal

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Website covering various aspects of Aboriginal Identity as well as connected teaching resources.

http://www.convictcreations.com/research/id entity.htm
http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fm1/fm 35eb.html http://arc.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/go/sc/ab original-studies/activities/aboriginal-identitiesweb-quest/worksheet/ http://arc.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/go/sc/ab original-studies/ http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopi cDetails.aspx?p=114&np=99&id=1987 http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/08/aborigi nal-identity-i-never-had-a-choice/

Historically-led website which also presents differing political perspectives.

Article called The first Australians: kinship, family and identity by Eleanor Bourke. NSW teaching idea along with web links.

NSW teaching resources homepage. Parenting perspective on Aboriginal identity, along with details of useful organisations. Different personal perspectives on identity.

Aboriginal Autonomy
Webpage
http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcultu re/selfdetermination/

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Collection of resources connected to Aboriginal peoples autonomy.

http://www.didjshop.com/shop1/AbCulturecar t.html
http://www.ncoss.org.au/vote1fairness/factsh eets/01-Self-Determination-AutonomyRepresentation.pdf http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AJHR/2 008/3.pdf http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/program s/counterpoint/aboriginal-self-determinationintroduction/2952114 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Austr alians http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/indigenous_vot e/aborigin.htm

Brief overview.
NCOSS advocates for the right to self determination, autonomy and representation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Article looking at autonomy and the emergency intervention in the Northern Territory. Audio introduction to issues around self-determination. Includes information on self-determination as well as much else. History of Aboriginal voting rights.

Aboriginal Enterprises and Organisations

Webpage
http://www.atsihealth.org/aboriginalorganisations/w2/i1001734/ http://www.naccho.org.au/ http://www.iba.gov.au/ http://nationalcongress.com.au/organisations/ http://indigenousrights.net.au/organisations.a sp

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Links to large number of Aboriginal organisations. National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Indigenous Business in Australia National Congress of Australias First Peoples masses of links to further organisations. Various organisations brought together by National Museum Australia

http://www.sa.gov.au/subject/Community+sup South Australia guide to Aboriginal port/Community+organisations/Aboriginal+co organisations. mmunity+organisations

http://www.blackpages.com.au/ Black Pages is Australia's first national Indigenous business portal, with the first free national online Indigenous business and community enterprise directory.

Aboriginal Visual Arts

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Austr alian_art http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/index.ph p http://www.kateowengallery.com/page/10Facts-About-Aboriginal-Art.aspx http://www.aboriginalartshop.com/

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General background information. Large selection of Aboriginal art. Kate Owen Gallery and Studio including ten facts about Aboriginal art. One of the largest Aboriginal art galleries in the world.

http://video.nationalgeographic.co.uk/video/ki Video looking at Aboriginal rock art. ds/people-places-kids/australia-rockart-kids/ http://www.arttrade.com.au/ http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/s ymbols.php http://www.aboriginalarttreasures.com/index. php Indigenous art trade association. Explanation of the use of symbols in Aboriginal art. Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Arts & Craft, Posters, Didgeridoos, Dreamtime Stories

Aboriginal Performing Arts

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http://acpa.net.au/ http://www.bangarra.com.au/ http://vimeo.com/37205975 http://www.australia.com/explore/australianevents/aboriginal-events.aspx http://ilbijerri.com.au/

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The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts filled with resources. Australias leading indigenous performing arts organisation. Showreel of indigenous producers. Australias Aboriginal events and festivals. The oldest indigenous theatre company in Australia.

http://yirrayaakin.com.au/
http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcultu re/arts/aboriginal-theatres

Theatre company sharing Aboriginal stories.

Information about five different Aboriginal theatre companies.

http://australianplays.org/assets/files/resource A brief history of /doc/BlakStage_Essay_ABriefHistory_DUPL_1. indigenous pdf Australian contemporary Theatre.

Aboriginal Peoples and the Media

Webpage
http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2010/04/0 1/2862684.htm

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Do Aboriginal people get a fair go in the media? Do you see accurate depictions or the propagation of stereotypes? Audio File

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_portrayals _of_Indigenous_Australians
http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/ http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcultu re/politics/ http://www.aic.gov.au/media_library/publicati ons/proceedings/21/plater.pdf

General background
Wide variety of stories and videos connected to indigenous peoples. Aboriginal Politics and Media Essay concerning the topic by Diana Plater.

http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstory Newspaper article looking at how the media id=3149 affects indigenous peoples. http://caama.com.au/ Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

Aboriginal Oral and Written Expression

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http://www.indigenousaustralia.info/language s/oral-traditions.html http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/1i i/3_ross.pdf http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/for/indigenous_au stralians/indigenous_oral_history http://www.aboriginalculture.com.au/religion. shtml http://www.academia.edu/368279/Aboriginal _Writing Oral Traditions Essay looking at the history of Aboriginal oral tradition. State library information on indigenous oral history. Information about Aboriginal religion and ceremony. Academic article looking at Aboriginal written expression.

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http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/B Debates around authenticity lackWords/BlackWordsExtraNotesCh1

http://www.upfromaustralia.com/dreamabstor The Dreamtime Aboriginal story of creation o.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFxGHPv Wcu4 Video of Aboriginal Dreamtime story being retold

Aboriginal Film and Television

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http://australia.gov.au/aboutaustralia/australian-story/indigenous-film http://www.creativespirits.info/resources/mov ies/ http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/brannue-dae-aboriginal-films-3378162

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Background and history of indigenous film. Large list of Aboriginal films. Newspaper article looking at the popularity of Aboriginal films.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indigenou List of Indigenous Australian performing artists s_Australian_performing_artists (with links). http://www.rouge.com.au/6/aboriginal.html http://australia.gov.au/aboutaustralia/australian-story/indigenousbroadcasting http://www.nitv.org.au/ http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/ Article called Aboriginal Art and Film The Politics of Representation Background and history of indigenous broadcasting. National Indigenous Television ABC Indigenous

Aboriginal Technologies and the Environment

Webpage
http://www.questacon.edu.au/indepth/clever/abo riginal_technology.html

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Background information

http://www.indigenousaustralia.info/achievement. Introduction connecting Aboriginal technologies to html the Dreaming.

http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australianstory/austn-indigenous-tools-and-technology
http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/linkages/Inte gratedUnits/aboriginal/tech_intro.html http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nswcultureh eritage/AboriginalPeopleAndCulturalLife.htm http://www.indigenousaustralia.info/land.html

Detailed information on a variety of tools and technologies.

Integrated unit on Aboriginal Technology. Information about the relationship between Aboriginal people and the environment. Explanation of Aboriginal views on the environment and the Dreaming

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/alcv/abori Sample unit of work. ginal_people_and_the_environment_p2_lv5.pdf

Aboriginal Peoples and Sport

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http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcultu re/sport/ http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcultu re/sport/famous-aboriginal-athletes http://www.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf _file/0003/276924/ABS-Indigenous_-peopleand-sport.pdf http://www.nasca.com.au/

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Large amount of information on Aboriginal involvement in game sand sports. Famous Aboriginal athletes. Report into indigenous peoples participation in sport. National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/ Summary of various reports into indigenous files/content/racial_discrimination/whats_the_ peoples participation in sport. score/pdf/participation.pdf http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcultu Traditional Aboriginal games re/sport/traditional-aboriginal-games-activities and activities. http://www.cathyfreeman.com.au/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Winmar The website of Cathy Freeman Nicky Winmar biography.

Aboriginal Interaction with Legal and Political Systems

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commissio n_into_Aboriginal_Deaths_in_Custody
http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/doc/ racediscrimcomm_1.pdf http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcultu re/politics/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabo_v_Queensl and_(No_2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik_Peoples_v_ Queensland http://www.aec.gov.au/voting/indigenous_vot e/aborigin.htm https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Education/educati on-programs-aboriginal-history.html

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Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Summary of the National Inquiry into Racist Violence (1991) Aboriginal Politics and Media Explanation of the Mabo judgement, in which the High Court recognised native title in Australia for the first time. Information about the judgement made by the High court regarding statutory leases and native title rights. History of Aboriginal peoples voting rights. Alternative history including further resources.

Aboriginality and the Land

Webpage
http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/ab_studies/part2/l and/aboriginality_and_land/index.html http://www.zunal.com/teacherspage.php?w=1 12203 http://web3.cheltenhamh.schools.nsw.edu.au/moodle/course/category .php?id=75 http://australia.gov.au/people/indigenouspeoples/land-councils http://www.aboriginalaffairs.nsw.gov.au/alra/n sw-and-local-aboriginal-land-councils/ http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/map.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_land_r ights_in_Australia

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Range of information connected to the topic, including bibliography. Teaching resources Teaching resources

Links to a large range of land councils NSW Aboriginal Land Council (including information on the Aboriginal Land Rights Act) Aboriginal Australia map Background on Aboriginal land rights

http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/interventi Extract looking at ons/aborigines.htm Aboriginal struggles for land right in the 1970s and 1980s

Heritage and Identity

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http://www.aboriginalheritage.org/history/hist Brief Aboriginal history ory/ http://www.aboriginalheritage.org/ http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/aboriginalaffairs/aboriginal-cultural-heritage http://australia.gov.au/aboutaustralia/australian-story/austn-indigenouscultural-heritage http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/abo ut/indigenous/ Aboriginal Heritage Office Aboriginal cultural heritage Australian indigenous cultural heritage

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Indigenous heritage

http://www.dia.wa.gov.au/en/Heritage-andCulture/Aboriginal-heritage/
http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcultu re/people/aboriginal-identity-who-isaboriginal http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/program s/sundayextra/aboriginality/4614200

Department of Indigenous Affairs: Aboriginal Heritage

Asks the question: Who is Aboriginal?

Radio program looking at Aboriginal identity

International Indigenous Community

Webpage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_pe oples http://www.amnesty.org/en/indigenouspeoples http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/ev ents/prizes-andcelebrations/celebrations/internationaldays/international-day-of-the-worldsindigenous-people/ http://www.iwgia.org/

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General background on different indigenous groups Amnesty Internationals perspective on indigenous groups UNESCO International Day of the Worlds Indigenous People

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/S UN Special Rapporteur on the RIndigenousPeoples/Pages/SRIPeoplesIndex rights of indigenous peoples .aspx http://www.humanrights.gov.au/publication UN declaration on the rights of s/un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples- indigenous peoples 1 http://www.pdhre.org/rights/indigenous.ht The Human Rights of Indigenous

Research and Inquiry Methods

Webpage
http://www.dia.wa.gov.au/en/SiteSearch/Aboriginal-Heritage-Inquiry-System/ http://ncis.anu.edu.au/ http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ http://caepr.anu.edu.au/

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Aboriginal heritage inquiry system National Centre for Indigenous Studies Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/di/di_default.htm
http://www.ausanthrop.net/

Discovery Indigenous scheme

Research and resources in anthropology

http://www.ahcsa.org.au/research-ethics/

Ethical Review of Research & Resources for Researchers

Social Justice and Human Rights Issues

Webpage
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/aboriginaland-torres-strait-islander-social-justice http://www.humanrights.gov.au/informationsheet-social-justice-and-human-rightsaboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-peoples http://www.amnesty.org.au/hre/index_new/ http://www.ihrna.info/ http://aboriginalhumanrights.org/

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Social Justice Organisation Social justice and human rights information sheet Amnesty Internationals work on indigenous human rights and social justice Indigenous Human Rights Network Australia Aboriginal Australian Human Rights Watchgroup

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/s Social Justice Reports Index ocial-justice-reports-index

http://www.nswreconciliation.org.au/Resource NSW Reconciliation Council s/social-justice-and-indigenous-rights http://australianmuseum.net.au/IndigenousAustralia-Social-Justice Social Justice Australian Museum

Life Skills/Modified Curriculum

Webpage
http://www.creativespirits.info/resources/ http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/muraread.htm l

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Guide to resources such as books, movies and so on. The world's most comprehensive collection of print, moving image, sound recordings and photographic materials relating to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories. Classroom activities for students in years 5 to 12.

http://www.nma.gov.au/educationkids/school_programs/after_your_visit/indigenous_c ulture_and_history

http://australia.gov.au/people/indigenous-peoples http://australia.gov.au/topics/education-andtraining/indigenous-education
http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.a u/primary/hsie/crosscurriculum/aboriginal/ http://www.australiaday.com.au/studentresources/i ndigenous.aspx

Range of useful websites about indigenous peoples. Range of useful websites about indigenous education.
Curriculum support. Australia Day centred resources connected to indigenous peoples.