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Indigenisation resources: Ways of knowing, being and doing

Resource portal to assist with locating Indigenous content for courses.

Ways of knowing, being and doing

Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that videos on this page may contain images, voices or names of deceased persons

Featured videos

Telling Story

This collection of short videos supports individuals and communities to widen their lens & re-author their stories to find strength, resilience and hope. Stories can be telling, and we can learn from how we listen to others and remember our own.

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Narrated by the linguist and anthropologist Peter Sutton, this documentary observes his work with a family in far north Queensland, outside Aurukun, to map their hereditary “clan country”. The aim of the older members of the family is partly to protect their land and prove their attachment to it, for purposes of dealing with the government and industry, and also to demarcate the country from claims by other Aboriginal groups.

Hosted in the Library's Kanopy database

The traditional way of life for Aboriginal Australians was changed forever after their first contact with Europeans. Lives, language, land and lore were lost across large swathes of the country due to colonisation. Living Black follows the men behind an ambitious program in Central Australia that hopes to reconnect youth with that ancient culture and their elders through the revival of the traditional handmade tool making practice of Tjilirra.

Hosted in the Library's ClickView database

Featured resources

  • BlackWords - Covers all forms of creative writing, film, television, criticism and scholarship, both by and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, and literary and storytelling cultures.
  • Informit Indigenous Collection - Contains specialist journals, conference papers, reports, magazines, eBooks and grey literature unavailable elsewhere online. Some full-text.
  • Australian Public Affairs Full Text (Informit) - Articles from Australian journals and newspapers.
  • Sociology Source Ultimate - Subjects include gender identity, marriage and family, to demographics, political sociology, religion and socio-cultural anthropology.