Online resources

Tasmanian websites

Tasmanian Aboriginal People and History - http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/regions/tasmania.php

Tasmanian Aboriginal Art and Culture - http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/tasmanian-art.php

Shell necklace making is one of the few surviving traditional Aboriginal crafts in Tasmania. There are only a handful of Aboriginal women who are still actively making the necklaces. Meet four Tasmanian Aboriginal shell necklace makers on this site.

http://archive.amol.org.au/foundmade/shells.asp

Voices of Aboriginal Tasmania ningenneh tunapry education guide
Download the ningenneh tunapry education guide (PDF)
First Black Man - audio file, spoken by Jim Everett
Dewayne Everettsmith singing a Tasmanian Aboriginal song
Tasmanian Aboriginal Culture: music and dance

http://player.sbs.com.au/programs#/programs_08/fullepisodes/latestepisodes/playlist/First-Australians-Episode-2-Her-Will-To-Survive/

Websites

First Australians covers the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world's greatest empire.

The story begins in 1788 in Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishmen (Governor Phillip) and a warrior (Bennelong) and ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia. First Australians chronicles the collision of two worlds and the genesis of a new nation.

This site explores Indigenous Australia through storytelling, cultures and histories. It includes Stories of the Dreaming, teachers' resources and content for students. You can also use this site to find out about the Indigenous Australia exhibition at the Australian Museum.

http://www.dreamtime.net.au/

http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/

Kanyini is a story told by an Aboriginal man, Bob Randall, who lives beside the greatest monolith in the world, Uluru in Central Australia.

Based on Bob's own personal journey and the wisdom he learnt from the old people living in the bush, Bob tells the tale of why Indigenous people are now struggling in a modern world and what needs to be done for Indigenous people to move forward.

A tale of Indigenous wisdom clashing against materialist notions of progress, this is not only a story of one man and his people but the story of the human race.

Yarnup - supporting Educational program for Kanyini

Melanie Hogan and Uncle Bob Randall have a dream to get their film Kanyini into as many Australian schools as possible. So far more than 1500 Australian schools have Kanyini on their school library shelves and the momentum keeps on growing. Recently the team have a new opportunity to promote the film through a program they've developed called 'Yarnup'.

Bob Randall on YouTube!
Check out Bob Randall singing "Brown Skin Baby (They Took Me Away)" and "Where We Come From" and in several interviews.

http://www.natsiew.edu.au/

Developed by Reconciliation Australia, Share Our Pride is a cultural awareness website which brings together facts and figures, answers to common questions and lots of inspiring stories to help build respectful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. To use the site, all people have to do is go to the site and register their name, email address and their organisation once only.

http://www.shareourpride.org.au

Website containing lots of videos from the Yolngu people of Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

http://www.12canoes.com.au/

This is Us Mob, a 7-part 'choose your own adventure' series set in the central desert of Australia! With Us Mob, you can follow central Australian Aboriginal teenagers Charlie, Della, Harry and Jacquita as they head off on journeys full of fun, excitement and crisis.

Everyone who wants to play with us on the Us Mob website needs a permit. This is a simple step to register.

http://www.abc.net.au/usmob/

Organisation websites

ANTaR's work focuses on a range of issues impacting on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people including racism, health and closing the gap.

http://www.antar.org.au/

NAIDOC celebrates the survival of Indigenous culture and the Indigenous contribution to modern Australia. NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’. The committee was once responsible for organising national activities during NAIDOC Week and its acronym has become the name of the week itself.

http://www.naidoc.org.au/

The Bringing them home report (BTH Report) recommended (Recommendation No 7.a) that a National Sorry Day be held each year on 26 May "to commemorate the history of forcible removals and its effects." As a result of this recommendation the community-based organisation the National Sorry Day Committee was formed.

http://www.nsdc.org.au/

Reconciliation Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation established in 2000 by the former Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. The national organisation builds and promotes reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for the wellbeing of the nation.

http://www.reconciliation.org.au

The Aboriginal Heritage Office protects and promotes Aboriginal heritage, adopting a partnership approach with Aboriginal community organisations to develop and deliver services. The Aboriginal Heritage Office works with the Tasmanian Aboriginal community to recognise and respect Tasmanian Aboriginal culture and heritage, and secure the protection and promotion of Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage for present and future generations.

http://www.aboriginalheritage.tas.gov.au/

The purpose of TALSC is to consult with and represent the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community through providing advice and services on heritage, land management and land rights issues as well as sea management and sea issues.

http://www.talsc.net.au/

FATSIL is the national peak body for community based indigenous language programs in Australia.  The organisation was established in 1991 in response to the Australian Language and Literacy Policy, to promote the maintenance, retrieval and revival of indigenous languages, through the support of community based language programs.

http://www.fatsil.org.au/

AIATSIS is the world’s premier institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. AIATSIS houses a Library (with wonderful online exhibitions), Family History Unit, and a Research section and the Aboriginal Studies Press, who publish many monographs of interest as well as AIATSIS' Australian Aboriginal Studies Journal.

http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/

Online books

The Companion to Tasmanian History is a comprehensive website providing information about every important aspect of Tasmania's history, covering all periods and all places. Articles have been written by the most experienced historians, and a wide range of sources has been consulted.

Articles have been written in non-technical language, and should be useful to students, schools, historians, journalists, politicians, and anyone interested in Tasmanian history.

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/

Google Books states it is a limited preview.

The extinction of the Tasmanian Aborigines has long been viewed as one of the great tragedies resulting from the British occupation of Tasmania. This book demonstrates that the Aborigines in Tasmania, although dispossessed, did not die out then or at any other period in Tasmania's history.

http://books.google.com/books?id=OLDMJhksIKkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=aboriginal+tasmanians+ryan

'The axe had never sounded’: Place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania by John Mulvaney
 

http://epress.anu.edu.au/axe_citation.html