Aboriginal History

ABORIGINAL HISTORY

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Commonwealth Records (Australian Archives, Australia)
  [A Guide to Records in the Australian Archives, ACT Regional Office, compiled 1993 by Ros Fraser]
• Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC) (www.aboriginalenvironments.com, Australia) [The Aboriginal Environments Research Centre is creating a web-accessible database of relevant bibliographic references and related images. It will provide ready access to research material for those involved in study and the making of architecture with Indigenous people throughout Australia. ]
• The Aboriginal Family History Project (SA Museum, Australia)
  [The Project at the South Australian Museum researches Aboriginal genealogies and associated community histories. We use archival source material collected by Museum anthropologists, ethnographers and historians over the past century but in particular the records of Norman Tindale and Joseph Birdsell. The collection includes thousands of photos taken at Aboriginal locations around Australia.]
• About Aboriginal History Journal [ftp] (ANU, Australia)
  ["Aboriginal History" aims to present articles and information in the field of Australian ethnohistory, particularly in the post-contact history of the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders]
• Australian Indigenous People Biography (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• Australian Indigenous People in War (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• Australian Indigenous History (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• Australian Indigenous People's Strikes (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• Australian Indigenous Athletes and Sports Stars (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• Australian Indigenous Politicians (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• Australian Indigenous Community Leaders (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• Australian Indigenous Trail Blazers (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• Awaba: A Database of Historical Materials Relating to the Aborigines of the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie Region (U. of Newcastle, Australia).
  [Hundreds of digitised documents and materials about the Awabakal people and language. It also provides a thematic guide to these materials, with contributions on Awabakal culture, history, language, people and places, prepared by various locally-based scholars, writers and community leaders. Among its many features is a first-ever publication of "The Gospel of St. Mark in Awabakal" from a manuscript prepared by the Lake Macquarie missionary, L.E. Threlkeld, in 1837. The database is edited by Dr. David Andrew Roberts, Assoc. Prof. Hilary M. Carey, and Vicki Grieves.]
• Central Australia Archaeology Project (CCAP) (U. of Sydney, Australia)
  [The cross cultural archaeology of the recent past in Central Australia]
• Doctored evidence and invented incidents in Aboriginal historiography (www.sydneyline.com, Australia)
  ['Doctored evidence and invented incidents in Aboriginal historiography' by Keith Windschuttle. Paper to conference on Frontier Conflict, National Museum of Australia, December 13-14, 2001.]
• Dr Kumantjayi Perkins: Charlie Perkins and the Freedom Rides (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• The extinction of the Australian pygmies (www.sydneyline.com, Australia)
  ['The extinction of the Australian pygmies' by Keith Windschuttle and Tim Gillin, Quadrant, June 2002.]
• The Flight of Ducks - Australian Aboriginal History (www.cinemedia.net, Australia)
  [A digitised collection of Australian Aboriginal history material (journals, photographs and artifacts) from a camel expedition which left Hermannsburg Mission for Mount Liebig in 1933. Members of this expedition were an Aboriginal guide Hezekial, T.E. Strehlow, Arthur Murch, Stanley Larnach and F.J.A.Pockley]
• The Fabrication of Aboriginal History - Reviews of Keith Windschuttle's new book (www.adelaideinstitute.org, Australia) [A number of articles, including: 'Paul Sheehan Our history not rewritten but put right. Accusations of genocide have been based on guesswork and blatant ideology. Sydney Morning Herald, 24 November 2002.'
  The site provides a section 'Keith Windschuttle replies to his critics'.]
• Genocide in Australia (www.aiatsis.gov.au, Australia)
  [ Colin Tatz. 1999. Genocide in Australia. AIATSIS Research Discussion Papers No 8. Canberra: AIATSIS. Contents: Images of Genocide; Aborigines - and First Contact; Decimation: Physical and Social; Disease as Genocide; Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Forced Assimilation; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group; Stolen or Separated?; Australia's Denialism; Apology and Acknowledgment.]
• 1788 The Great South Land project (www.acay.com.au, Australia)
  [A production involving a choir of over 2000 children, 70 performers and rock band on Gosford waterfront is being planned as a reconciliation move for Australia day 1988. Already we have over 20 schools 'on board' which has broken down religious and political barriers in the area - not to mention the involvement of a number of Aboriginal groups in the region plus the Council.]
• Guide to the Papers of Edward Koiki Mabo (NLA, Australia)
  [Manuscript Collection of the National Library of Australia: Scope and Content Note; Biographical Note; Series List; Series Descriptions; Box List; online photographs]
• Library services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (NLA, Australia)
  [Roundtable on Libraries and Archives Collections and Services of Relevance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, 4 May 1995]
• Log files From H-ANZAU (the history of Aotearoa / New Zealand and Australia )
  [Threads from spring 1997 onwards: Borbidge, Blainey, and Wik; Black Arm Band History; Post Wik Native Title Legislation; Wik, the Press, and Public Debate; Who Wrote Pauline's History?; Cannibalism and Human Rights; Request for Finance and Signatures for WIK Advertisement; WIK, Hanson, and Australian Studies Offshore; Political Postings on H-ANZAU]
• Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia (MacquarieNet, Australia)
  [The printed as well as electronic book (i.e.: Arthur, Bill and Frances Morphy. 2005. Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: culture and society through space and time. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd.) is an exciting new title for older students. It examines a vast range of topics relating to Indigenous Australia and is illustrated throughout with maps and photographs. Chapter topics look at Australian prehistory, indigenous languages, land ownership, the colonial period, placenames, and reconciliation and modern politics - "probably the most important reference book to be published in Australia in 2005, if not this decade". Note: the resource requires user's registration.]
• National Aboriginal History and Heritage Council (NAHHC) (U. Sydney, Australia)
  [NAHHC is a voluntary organisation working for the recognition, respect, preservation and promotion of Aboriginal history and heritage.]
• Norman B Tindale (1900-1993) (South Australian Museum, Australia)
  [Expeditions, Tribal Boundaries, The Tindale Collection, Biography, Material Culture]
• Two groups may have populated Australia (www.abc.net.au, Australia)
  [New genetic evidence suggests Australia may have been populated by two separate groups of humans, one arriving via Papua New Guinea, the other via Indonesia]
• The Virtual Coquun - Hunter River Project (U. Newcastle, Australia)
  [Our dream is to create a virtual Coquun-Hunter River that people can sail up at different time periods (e.g. Aboriginal dreaming, 1797, 1800, 1810, 1830, 1860, 1900, 1950, 2000 etc.) and where they can access a series of digitised historical materials such as scanned accounts from books and diaries, oral history transcriptions, paintings, photographs etc, that have been incorporated into various points along the journey.]
• "Voices In the Wind" (www.mcmedia.com.au, Australia)
  [An Aboriginal multidisciplinary cultural education kit (a filmed play, an interview with the author, video slides, a large script, teacher notes & student activities. It has been designed for specialist and non-specialist teachers of History, English, Drama, Media Studies & Health and Physical Education (post secondary/high studies).]
• Wellington Valley Project, The (U. Newcastle, Australia)
  [Hilary M. Carey and David A. Roberts (eds.). The Wellington Valley Project. Letters and Journals relating to the Church Missionary Society Mission to Wellington Valley, NSW, 1830 - 45. A Critical Electronic Edition. 1995.]
• 'White Australia has a Black History' - Sources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in the National Library of Australia (NLA, Australia)
  [A paper by John Thompson for the Indigenous Research Ethics Conference, 27-29 September 1995, organised by the Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Participation, Research and Development, James Cook University of North Queensland]

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