Indigenous Studies

Yarn Circles Wellbeing Cards have been designed to provide opportunities for students to talk about their feelings, emotions, thoughts and ideas in a safe, positive and collaborative environment. This process reflects the traditional Yarn Circles time that was such an important part of the culture of our First Nations' people. We see it as an extremely important ancient practice that is now fulfilling a very modern need.

Yarn Circles Wellbeing Cards have been designed to provide opportunities for students to talk about their feelings, emotions, thoughts and ideas in a safe, positive and collaborative environment. This process reflects the traditional Yarn Circles time that was such an important part of the culture of our First Nations' people. We see it as an extremely important ancient practice that is now fulfilling a very modern need.

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Australia's Indigenous peoples have art traditions which span the millennia and which have grown and developed continuously. This book is designed help students develop a general understanding of the history of Indigenous art. This book is a great introduction to Indigenous art, the diversity of which may inspire students to further research.

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Since the colonisation of Australia by the British, Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have experienced great hardship - including mass death and displacement - but have demonstrated resilience, strength, compassion and ingenuity. This book offers a brief history of Australia since colonisation, highlighting the lives and achievements of some outstanding Indigenous people, including David Unaipon, Eddie Mabo, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Vincent Lingiari, and more.

The importance of family and kinship relationships, as well as the responsibilities and obligations that these relationships bring with them, are common threads that bind together the diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
This book provides snapshot readings and activities that enable students to gain some small insights and thus understandings into the strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait families and communities.

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Much Indigenous history has been lost since the colonisation of Australia by Europeans. Over the last 40-50 years, increasing efforts have been made to work with Indigenous people to record the history of the various cultures that did exist or still exist across Australia. This book does not pretend to cover all the stories but aims to highlight some parts of the increasingly-complex story of Indigenous history and tradition.

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Prior to European colonisation, there were as many as 600 Indigenous languages present in Australia. Many languages have since been lost due to the displacement and massacre of many Indigenous people. This book looks at the origins of Australia's Indigenous languages, their usage today, and the formation of Creole languages in recent times.

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The myths of Australia's Aboriginal peoples are many thousands of years old, with the Rainbow Serpent being the oldest continuous spiritual belief in the world. The Dreaming ties together most aspects of Aboriginal spirituality. This books looks at the formation and meaning of these stories, offering examples from 'public' Dreaming stories where suitable.

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The long tradition of oral history amongst Australia's Indigenous peoples shows tens of thousands of years of a culture built on the foundation of storytelling. In modern Australia, Indigenous stories can be told through dance, theatre, song, film, and television. This book looks at the history of Indigenous performing arts, as well as some of the noteworthy figures of these different artistic areas.

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Reconciliation means acknowledging the wrongs that have been done to Australia's first inhabitants who suffered unspeakable hardships during and after invasion by the British, and understanding why these things happened.
Richly packed with information for class and individual research, group activities, Internet activities and general research, this resource provides a multitude of possibilities.

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Australia is a sports-loving nation, and a great deal of respect is offered to Australians who excel at sports. This book offers a brief history of different sports in Australia, and how Indigenous sportspeople have been involved. Each section also includes biographies of notable Indigenous sportspeople, such as Kathy Freeman, Anthony Mundine, Mark Ella, Nova Peris, and Jonathan Thurston.

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Indigenous people have been in Australia for many tens of thousands of years and during this time, Aboriginal people taught themselves how to live sustainably in Australia's fragile landscape. The continent, its landscapes and flora and fauna were managed, utilised and conserved. This book is meant to assist students in developing an understanding of sustainability, by looking at the relationships between environment, society and economy, and applying these concepts in specific contexts with an Indigenous perspective.

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