Links:
Interactive Aboriginal Australia language map
A link to Dr Fred Cahir’s “Black Gold: Aboriginal People on the Goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870”
Research notes for secondary students on Ballarat’s Aboriginal history
Some great videos on local language and “Ballaarat” stories from Wadawurrung elder Bryon Powell
“Our Shared History” timeline of 60,000 years of Australian history
Link to full episodes of SBS’s award winning “First Australians” series
Melbourne Museum’s First Peoples Exhibition “Bunjilaka”
The story of Bunjil the Creator Ancestor at Melbourne Museum
Learn more about Aboriginal culture at the Koori Heritage Trust
Online version of Katherine Kirkland’s 1840s “Notes On A Bush Life”
New research about the frontier wars
Child-friendly article about early colonist attitudes towards Australian Aboriginal People
See more of S. T. Gill’s famous Australian Sketchbook here
Two great articles about traditional Aboriginal land management:
Article 1 | Article 2
List of films created or inspired by Australian Aboriginal People
Overview of Australian Aboriginal People from the Australian Museum
Information about reconciliation
Information about native title
A child-friendly article about Batman’s treaty
You can find out more about Wadawurrung language and clan names here: Clark, I.D. (1990) Aboriginal Languages and Clans: An Historical Atlas of Western and Central Victoria, 1800-1900, Monash Publications in Geography, No. 37, March, 460pp.
