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Indigenisation resources: History

Resource portal to assist with locating Indigenous content for courses.

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The Aboriginal story has been buried deep beneath the 247-year-old accepted Australian narrative. In this documntary Aboriginal filmmaker Trisha Morton-Thomas bites back at Australian history.

Hosted in the Library’s Kanopy database

After World War I, a grateful nation granted land to tens-of-thousands of returned Australian soldiers, but not to nearly all of the 800 Indigenous men who also fought for their country. Their fight for equality continues.

Hosted in the Library’s ClickView database

Part of the ABC series >

Featured resources

  • Frontier Wars - Resource to support students in listening and learning from the voices of First Nations people, to challenge dominant narratives and to engage in an honest examination of this continent's history. Dowload requires free registration.
  • Speaking Out - ‘Counter currents: Aboriginal men and women at the Heart of Empire’ presented by John Maynard, Professor of Indigenous History at the University of Newcastle.
  • Living with the Locals - Six extraordinary first contact stories of friendship and survival.
  • Hunter Living Histories - Dreaming - A one page version of the Virtual Sourcebook for Aboriginal Studies in the Hunter Region site listing all sources from 1791 to the present.
  • Informit Indigenous Collection - Contains specialist journals, conference papers, reports, magazines, eBooks and grey literature unavailable elsewhere online. Some full-text.
  • JSTOR - Access to journals in areas related to communication, mass media and closely-related fields of study.
  • Historical Abstracts with Full Text - Indexing world history articles (excluding Northern America), focusing on the 15th century to the present.