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. JANUARY The Victorian Aboriginal Protocols for Koorie Education in We highly recommend The Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc. (VAEAI) was first Education Association Inc. Victorian Primary and Secondary consulting with Aboriginal established in 1976 as the Victorian Aboriginal Education Consultative (VAEAI) is the peak Koorie Schools has been produced by VAEAI people and Aboriginal Group (VAECG). The shared aim of the VAECG was to increase the community-controlled body for following requests for guidance on sources for information. presence and voice of Koorie people in education decision making at a Aboriginal Education and training appropriate protocols for schools to Where available, your local time when limited Aboriginal organisations existed. in Victoria. follow in providing a welcoming school LAECG is a good first point environment for Koorie community of contact and VAEAI can Today VAEAI represents the Victorian Koorie Community in relation to Explore the VAEAI website , members, and working respectfully assist with contacts. Try to education policy development and strategic programming at local, state subscribe for newsletters and with the Koorie community to enrich work with local community and national levels. follow us on Facebook. school curricula. people and Elders, and always respect their VAEAI supports the provision of education and training that reinforces the VAEAI website: Protocols for schools: intellectual and cultural Koorie community’s cultural identity, and increases awareness in the wider http://www.vaeai.org.au/index.cfm http://www.vaeai.org.au/_uploads/_ckpg/ property rights. community of Koorie cultures, histories and aspirations in education and files/ProtocolsDocVAEAIONLINE25June15. training. pdf
26 Survival Day A day off, a barbecue and ONLINE RESOURCES in full Did you know that the The 26th of January aka Australia Day, Survival Day, Invasion Day, fireworks? A celebration of who we celebrated Kurnai Sovereignty Day and National Day of Mourning marks an important time
January are as a nation? A day of mourning Gunditjmara world for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and for non-Indigenous and invasion? A celebration of 1st National Day of Mourning: champion boxer Lionel Australians alike. For the first Australians the day essentially marks the survival? Australians hold many http://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collection Rose was the first survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their cultures. th different views on what the 26 of s-online/digitised-collections/day- Aboriginal person to be For non-Indigenous Australians it marks the landing of the First Fleet, a National Day of January means to them. mourning-and-protest-aborigines- named Australian of the group of eleven ships from Britain that landed on the shores of Botany Bay Mourning 1938 conference-75th-anniversary/26th- Year back in 1968? where the clash of two cultures and the fight for one land began. In 2017 a number of councils january-1938 controversially decided to no From 1940 until 1955, the National Day of Mourning was held annually on longer celebrate Australia Day on http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginal the Sunday before Australia Day and was known as Aborigines Day. In 1955 this day, while ‘Change the Date’ is culture/history/australia-day-invasion-day Aborigines Day was shifted to the first Sunday in July after it was decided the slogan of a prominent contemporary campaign and http://www.naidoc.org.au/about/naidoc- the day should become not simply a protest day but also a celebration of dedicated website. Consider why history/ Aboriginal culture and survival. there is continuing debate and conflicting emotions about our NACCHO communiqué & CTD campaign: national day. For an Aboriginal http://nacchocommunique.com/2014/01/ perspective read the communiqué 24/naccho-aboriginal-health-and-january- from the National Peak body of 26-debate-what-does-australia-day-mean- Aboriginal health organisations. for-our-mob/
http://www.changethedate.com.au/ Research the first Day of Mourning,
involving Victorian Yorta Yorta Lionel Rose leaders William Cooper and Sir https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/ Doug Nichols and its connection to NAIDOC week held later in July. https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/h onour- The Australian of the Year Awards roll/?view=search&query=indigenous occur annually on this date. How many Aboriginal Australians of the http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/ho Year have there been? Who are nour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=68 they and where are they from?
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. FEBRUARY 4 Anniversary of the With older students watch the Cummeragunja Mission: Did you know that the Cummeragunja lies on the New South Wales side of Dhungala – the Cummeragunja DVD The Legacy of a People http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/200 legendary Bunyip is said to Murray River – on the traditional lands of the Bangerang and Yorta Yorta February Walk-off of 1939 about the Shepparton Koorie 61123- get its name from the peoples. The river is hugely important to the people and sustained them community and Cummeragunja 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cum Wemba Wemba and for thousands of years. Reserve, and investigate the meragunja/default.html Wergaia languages of the
reasons for the Cummeragunja Murray River Region? On the 4th February 1939, over 200 residents of the Cummeragunja http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/200 Walk-off of 1939 (VAEAI has a Mission walked off the mission station in protest against conditions at the 61123- limited number of copies). 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cum station, and crossed the Murray River into Victoria, leaving the state of
meragunja/voices_of_cummerangunja/def New South Wales. At the time, this was in contravention of rules set by the Listen to the late Bangerang Elder ault.html New South Wales Aboriginal Protection Board restricting the movement of Uncle Sandy Atkinson and other Aboriginal people. Many settled in Barmah, Echuca, Shepparton, descendants of Cummeragunja http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/200 Mooroopna and Fitzroy (Melbourne). discuss life in the day, belonging 61123- and connection to place. 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cum meragunja/voices_of_cummerangunja/un cle_sandy_atkinson/uncle_sandy_talks_of With younger students (years 5- _conservation_practices_/default.html 8) explore the Voices of
Cummerangunja links and read or Legacy of a People DVD listen to the late Bangerang Elder http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/171001609? Uncle Sandy Atkinson talk about selectedversion=NBD50015642 Image from The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek Written by
conservation practices. What Jenny Wagner and illustrated by evidence is there that people http://swft.wgrl.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/clien Ron Brooks First edition: lived in harmony with their land? t/en_AU/wgrl/search/detailnonmodal/ent Longman Young Books, Provide at least one specific :$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f1327$002fSD_ILS: Melbourne, 1973. example of their conservation 1327037/ada;jsessionid=38ACE1F528FD1A D29DD63DCA362BCE54.enterprise- practices. 14800?qu=Shepparton+%28Vic.%29+-- +History.&ic=true&ps=300
With students research the opera Pecan Summer by Yorta Yorta Pecan Summer opera: composer Deborah Cheetham – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txD rTCuaaM the first opera written by an Act 1 of Pecan Summer: photo by Robert Jefferson see: http://indaily.com.au/sport
Indigenous Australian and http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/a involving an Indigenous caste – bout-town/first-aboriginal-opera--pecan- which is based on the Cummeragunja Walk-off. Quite a summer-20120815-248s4.html
number of video clips and news Try to embed real life stories and http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/a reports have been uploaded to bout-town/pecan-summers-ray-of-
youtube. Further explore the life sunshine-through-song-20120907- perspectives from your local Aboriginal of Deborah Cheetham and her 25jtm.html journey to be an opera singer and and Torres Strait Islander community author. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=pe members across your curriculum can+summer+youtube&dcr=0&source=ln Murray River focus: Focus some ms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD8pL1 throughout the year. learning activities around Koorie 4urYAhUDU7wKHaQ7DG4Q_AUICigB&biw =1222&bih=721 peoples, languages and stories of
the Murray River region, such as Murray River Resources: the Bangerang Dreaming story * http://www.murrayriver.com.au/about-
about the creation of Dungala the-murray/murray-river-aboriginals/ Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. (Tongala), aka the Murray River, and the famous Bunyip story. http://www.booktopia.com.au/murray- river-shane- *Depending on the region or the strudwick/prod9780733330896.html?clicki language group, there are a d=zObUOfSm8Ta5x%3AhxMcV7hx3mUkQ SqsUM%3ATXWTE0&bk_source_id=75030 number of Creation Stories about &bk_source=DGM the Murray River – for some good background material: Ponde the Murray River Country with teaching notes Murray Cod – River Creator. http://aiatsis.gov.au/publications/product Numerous tales of the bunyip in s/murray-river-country-ecological- written literature appeared in the dialogue-traditional-owners/paperback 19th and early 20th centuries. One of the earliest known is a http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/do story in Andrew Lang's ‘The cs/asp/education/mrc_final.pdf
Brown Fairy Book’ (1904). Explore Murray River Creation Stories: the origins of, sightings and writings about bunyips. Bangerang story: listen: https://youtu.be/TgjY27Sy48g With secondary students, explore the ecological, spiritual, read: economic and aesthetic http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22892111?s significance of the Murray- electedversion=NBD42424768 Darling basin and approaches to custodial responsibility, Ponde the Murray Cod – River Creator: http://www.riverspace.com.au/item/pond environmental management and e-the-murray-cod-river-creator/ sustainability. Murray River Country: An ecological dialogue with traditional owners by Murray River Bunyip geographer Jessica Weir comes http://www.murrayriver.com.au/about- with downloadable teaching the-murray/bunyips/ notes and discusses the water crisis from a unique perspective – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip the intimate stories of love and loss from the viewpoints of
Aboriginal peoples who know the
inland rivers as their traditional country.
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. 12 1965 Freedom Learn about the 1965 NSW Freedom Rides: 1965 Freedom Rides: Rides Anniversary Freedom Rides against prejudice http://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collection In February 1965 a group of Sydney University students called "Students February and racial discrimination headed s-online/digitised- for Aboriginal Rights" (SAFA), led by Aboriginal students Charles Perkins by Aboriginal students Charles collections/documenting-freedom-ride and Gary Williams, began a trip that would change Australian history. Their Perkins and Gary Williams. journey was both an attempt to emulate the US Civil Rights Movement http://indigenousrights.net.au/civil_rights action in the early 1960s, and designed to expose the racist underbelly of /freedom_ride,_1965 AIATSIS’ site includes the diaries Australian society in rural NSW. of freedom-rider Ann Curthoys, a http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02- photographic exhibition and an 18/freedom-rides-remembered/6130544 The book "Freedom Ride: a freedom rider remembers" by Ann Curthoys, excellent reading list which relives the experience of the Freedom Ride, drawing largely upon a diary includes a list of sources, news http://www.abc.net.au/archives/80days/s written during the journey and the recollections of Indigenous and non- articles and external websites tories/2012/01/19/3414788.htm indigenous people who were involved. Contemporary media reports as about the 1965 Freedom Ride. well as secondary accounts supplement the story, drawing attention to the Your first stop for information http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/images/hi impact of the ride and highlighting the ways in which the events have been could be the curated online story/1960s/freedom/frdx.html remembered.
exhibition, the 1965 Freedom See: http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/images/history/1960s/freedom/frdx.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS3YJ Ride, which brings together N3WED4 primary sources from students
that took part in this landmark http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s41832 event with newspaper coverage 60.htm One lesson we can all draw from the Freedom from the time. Ride is the importance of speaking out against https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibrar Previously unpublished yofnsw/albums/72157654250887374 injustice, challenging oppression and photographs of the 1965 discrimination, and doing it now.
Freedom rides discovered in the Ann Curthoys, honorary professor, author, and original freedom-rider NSW State Library of NSW archives were first exhibited in 2015. Encourage students to explore these photographs useful for discussions and presentations.
Watch the 2015 anniversary of the Freedom Rides film on Living Black about the Freedom Rides. Discuss how things were then and how the freedom riders feel about that time, and their historic action. Alternatively, students, especially primary school students might prefer to watch the BTN program on the Freedom Rides 50th anniversary and discuss
similarly. Excerpt of Unidentified boys in wood shack, February 1965 / from The Tribune archived collection.At:
Why were students compelled to https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/20 829135935/in/album-72157654250887374/ take this action? What do these types of actions achieve?
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. 13 National Apology Where were you when the NSDC: With sensitivity, honouring The National Apology to Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anniversary Apology was made? http://www.nsdc.org.au/ the Apology Anniversary Peoples was delivered by the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on February February Learning About the Stolen Generations and National Sorry Day 13, 2008, and acknowledged in particular the Stolen Generations. Download the National Sorry Day Resource: builds understanding and Committee’s excellent resource http://vaeai.org.au/support/dspdefault.cfm?lo respect between school Each year the National Sorry Day Committee encourages all schools, Learning about the Stolen adref=126 and community, teachers community groups, workplaces and individuals to commemorate the Generation: the NSDC’s school and students. anniversary of this important event in Australia's history. The Apology speech: resource for great classroom and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLnsFyAV whole-of-school activities. qE Discuss with your guest speaker prior to the lesson The speech that stopped the what they are willing to Nation: Listen to or play footage talk about, especially from the Apology. relating to potentially sensitive issues. Invite a Stolen Generations Remember that across member or another Aboriginal or Victoria and the rest of the Torres Strait Islander parent, nation almost every, if not Elder or community member to all Aboriginal families have speak with your students about been negatively affected the Stolen Generations and the by the policies and importance of celebrating the practices that have led to Apology Anniversary. dispossession and what we now call the Stolen Some questions you might want Generations. For some, to consider with your students as this is still very difficult to part of a lesson: reconcile and talk about. How did your family members feel when the Australian Parliament said ‘sorry’ in 2008? Why was it so important for Parliament to make an Apology?
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. 21 International Talk with students about their International Day of Mother Language: Did you know that there International Mother Language Day celebrates language diversity and Mother Language own language backgrounds using http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlang are approximately 250 variety worldwide annually on February 21. Significantly it also remembers February Day maps where possible. uageday/ Aboriginal languages events such as the killing of four students on February 21, 1952, because (around 500 including they campaigned to officially use their mother language, Bengali, in Explore Australian Languages https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/u dialects) in Australia, and Bangladesh. n/international-mother-language-day online with the magnifying glass around 40 Aboriginal
on the language map link Aboriginal Languages maps: languages in Victoria? This is a day to celebrate languages spoken world-wide, to highlight the connecting making connections http://www.vaclang.org.au/Resources/ma importance of preserving linguistic diversity and the human right to use between language and place ps.html these languages. where students and teachers were born. Large printed maps http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/ can be purchased from AIATSIS and other outlets. Koorie Language apps on iTunes "Towards Sustainable Futures https://itunes.apple.com/au/developer/vi With your students identify the ctorian-aboriginal- corporation/id928978621 through Multilingual language group or country associated with your school and Education." IMDL 2017 theme research the language and its traditional speakers.
Download a range of Koorie interactive digital story apps made for iPads and iPhones featuring Koorie languages and English versions, by searching for VACL at the iTunes store. Work with VAEAI, the Victorian Corporation for Aboriginal Languages (VACL) and local Koorie community members to introduce the local Koorie language to your school in a variety of ways.
Aboriginal Languages of Victoria map reproduced with permission from the Victorian Corporation for Aboriginal Languages: http://www.vaclang.org.au/
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. MARCH 21 International Day Focus lessons around pride in Racial discrimination: Did you know that in 1938, The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, is for the Elimination identity and celebration of http://www.racismnoway.com.au/ prior to WWII, an observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire March of Racial diversity. Aboriginal delegation and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Discrimination http://www.racismnoway.com.au/teachin headed by Yorta Yorta man Africa, against the apartheid pass laws. Proclaiming the day in 1966, the Discuss the effects of prejudice g-resources/anti-racism- William Cooper, protested United Nations General Assembly called on the international community to and racial discrimination with activities/lesson_ideas/index_bytheme.ht against the treatment of redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination. ml# students via a range of personal Jewish People in Germany
Harmony Day and anecdotal stories. William Cooper- led protest against Nazi and tried to hand a Harmony Day is an Australian Government initiative that centres on the treatment of Jewish peoples: resolution to the German message that “Everyone belongs”, reinforcing the importance of Explore the Racism No Way anti- http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012 consul-general inclusiveness to all Australians. Since 1999, thousands of Harmony Day racism site for Australian schools /s3649212.htm condemning the Nazis' events have been held in childcare centres, schools, community groups, which features a wide range of persecution of Jewish churches, businesses and federal, state and local government agencies teaching activities and resources. http://www.haaretz.com/jewish- people? across Australia. world/jewish-world-features/an- Learn about the 1965 NSW aboriginal-protest-against-the-nazis- 1965 Freedom Rides: Freedom Rides against prejudice finally-delivered.premium-1.483806 In February 1965 a group of Sydney University students called "Students
and racial discrimination headed for Aboriginal Rights" (SAFA), led by Aboriginal students Charles Perkins https://atributetoaustralianchristians.wor by Aboriginal students Charles dpress.com/2010/10/22/william- and Gary Williams. Perkins and Gary Williams. Why cooper/https://atributetoaustralianchristi Go to our February 12 activities and links for more details. were students compelled to take ans.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/william-
this action? What do these types cooper/ of actions achieve? Go to February 12 activities and links IDERD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International for more details about the freedom rides. _Day_for_the_Elimination_of_Racial_Discr imination http://www.un.org/en/events/racialdiscri
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collections/documenting-freedom-ride
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. 30 10th Anniversary of With your students, research The Gunditjmara Land Justice Story: On the 30th March 2007, Gunditjmara People in south-western Victoria Gunditjmara native Gunditjmara country, people http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/_files/ntru/public won an 11-year legal battle for native title rights over 140,000 hectares of March title recognition history and culture. If able, invite ations/monographs/MonographGunditjmara crown land. Celebrations were held on Gunditjmara country to celebrate Gunditjmara community members .pdf and settlement the native title consent determination – a determination that was reached to come to the class or school and http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/n through the consent of all parties, rather than litigation. The celebrations speak about Gunditjmara. ative-title-win-for-gunditjmara- were at the base of the volcanic mountain Budj Bim, also known as Mount people/2007/03/30/1174761734730.html Eccles National Park, and followed a special hearing of the Federal Court of With older students research the Australia on Country. On this day, the Gunditjmara people spoke about Gunditjmara struggle for Native http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/i how the native title determination was the end of a long struggle for Title recognition. ndigenous-victorians-close-to-settlement-in- recognition of their status as the first peoples of their country. They also southwest/2007/01/03/1167777154140.htm talked about their future work to protect their native title rights and Lake Condah, extremely significant l interests, and how the business of land justice continues. to Gunditjmara People, is an See: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/_files/ntru/publications/monographs/MonographGunditjmara.pdf Indigenous Protected Area. Visit or http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/ Gunditjmara-win-native-title- learn about Indigenous Protected battle/2007/03/30/1174761740241.html Areas (IPAs) in Victoria, such as Kurtonitj or Lake Condah in the Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA): South-west of Victoria. https://www.dpmc.gov.au/indigenous- affairs/environment/indigenous-protected- In 2011, a Bush Blitz occurred on areas-ipas Gunditjmara country with Traditional Owners to survey https://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files biodiversity in the IPAs. Investigate /publications/IPA_FS_2015_1.pdf
the program and some of the flora Victorian IPAs: and fauna surveyed. Research and https://www.environment.gov.au/indigenou discuss management strategies, s/ipa/declared/vic.html including how to work collaboratively with Traditional Bush Blitz: Owners, to preserve ecological http://bushblitz.org.au/ biodiversity. Where else is bush http://bushblitz.org.au/kurtonitj-lake- Blitz Working? condah-tyrendarra-indigenous-protected- areas-vic-2011/ Research the lives of Gunditjmara Honour Roll inductees and others: Elders and community members http://www.standard.net.au/story/2592687 who have been strong advocates Image: Federal Court Justice Anthony North and Geoff Clark showing him Aboriginal sites /gunditjmara-pair-elevated-to-state- along the beach at Yambuk; by Damien White - Warrnambool Advertiser for their communities such as indigenous-honour-roll/ http://www.standard.net.au/story/794405/long-struggle-is-over-say-indigenous-leaders/ Aboriginal Honour Roll inductees Edna Brown and William Rawlings, http://www.vic.gov.au/aboriginalvictoria/co Bush Blitz on Gunditjmara country: In March 2011, a team of more than the Lovett Brothers, Laura Bell and mmunity-engagement/leadership- 30 scientists gathered in SW Victoria, on Gunditjmara country, within the Young Australian of the Year state programs/aboriginal-honour-roll/2013- Budj Bim National Park to undertake a Bush Blitz survey. Six reserves were finalist, Benson Saulo, world victorian-aboriginal-honour-roll/the-lovett- famous singer Archie Roach, brothers.html investigated together comprising the IPAs of Lake Condah, Kurtonitj and
playwright, author and musician Tyrendarra. Sites at the Lake Condah Mission were also surveyed, situated http://www.vic.gov.au/aboriginalvictoria/co Richard Frankland and Australia’s 350 km from Melbourne. The survey team included experts from Museum mmunity-engagement/leadership- Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, University of NSW, SA first commissioned Aboriginal programs/aboriginal-honour-roll/2013- officer, Reginald Saunders for victorian-aboriginal-honour-roll/laura- Museum and the Australian Biological Resources Study. A highlight of the starters. bell.html survey was the close collaboration between the Gunditjmara traditional owners, the Working on Country Budj Bim Rangers and the visiting http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/hon scientists. In total, 854 species new to the reserves were identified and our-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1072 18 are possibly new to science! Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. 25 ANZAC DAY Acknowledging Aboriginal Exhibitions and memorial box: Did you know that Soldiers military service http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/exhi Gunditjmara man Reg “When my uncle came back from April bitions/iaaw/home.html Saunders was the first “Unable to vote but eligible to Aboriginal person to be serving in Korea he couldn't even die” - explore Indigenous https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced- commissioned as an officer Australians’ war service. The search?query=aboriginal in the Australian Army? get a beer in a pub let alone a Australian War Memorial site has a variety of online resources (see https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/mem below), as well as the orial-boxes pension, and he wasn't permitted Department of Veteran Affairs. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/L to become a citizen until 1968.” IB100043517 Download DVA’s Indigenous Service publications for primary John Kinsella, nephew of Australia's most famous Aboriginal soldier, Captain Reg Saunders and secondary schools for https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/educat MBE] background and suggested ion/resources inquiry activities. Search Australian War Museum Memorial Box: https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/schoo ‘Indigenous Service’). Each memorial box contains artefacts that students can handle, as well as ls/resources/research-a-soldier photographs, case studies, uniforms, a video, oral histories, teacher’s
Contact the Australian War notes, and more. Memorial boxes can be adapted for use across many http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/sites/defaul areas of study and are accessible to a wide range of students, from lower Museum to borrow Memorial Box t/files/publication- 03: Too Dark for the Light Horse. primary to senior secondary. attachments/Indig_primary.pdf “Unable to vote but eligible This site also takes you to online to die” Shrine of Remembrance Poster Competition: resources and Australian http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/sites/defaul Former Richard Wynne, State The winning poster will become the official Remembrance Day 2018 poster Curriculum links. t/files/publication- Aboriginal Affairs Minister, attachments/Indig_secondary.pdf Victoria for the Shrine of Remembrance and will appear on banners and posters Using the Australian War around the City of Melbourne. Schools awarded prizes to the winning and General: Source: highly commended artworks receive a selection of books from the Memorial's online databases, http://www.creativespirits.info/abori investigate the war service of https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/co ginalculture/history/anzac-day- Department of Veterans’ Affairs, a personalised visit to the Shrine and are nflicts/australia-and-second-world- Aboriginal servicemen and coloured-digger-march invited to place a flower in the Field of Poppies whilst attending the Official war/resources/all-australian-homefront- women. Remembrance Day Service on 11 November. Winning entries and highly 19391945-0 commended artworks will be displayed in an exhibition at the Shrine to
coincide with Remembrance Day 2018. Entry closes, September 2018 (date TBC). Consider participating in the https://www.dva.gov.au/i-am/aboriginal- See more at: http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Poster-Competition Shrine of Remembrance Poster andor-torres-strait-islander/indigenous-
Competition highlighting the australians-war
participation of Aboriginal service
men and women as a class or http://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collection
whole-school activity. s-online/digitised-collections/indigenous-
australians-war/women-war
Over 1000 Aboriginal and Torres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7 Strait Islanders fought for -sYnjCFs Australia in World War I despite profound barriers to enlisting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXN 3H6wsnj8 Bush TV’s Untold Stories about WW1 Aboriginal service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys39 men and research the lives of pRNFbEc Victorian Koories such as United in War, Divided in Peace: The Australian Aboriginal League float in the 1947 May Day procession Captain Reg Saunders: protested the conditions in which Aboriginal people found themselves on return from the Second World Brabuwooloong private Harry War. Australian War Memorial P01248.001. Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. Thorpe. Why were there such barriers and how did some https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/multimedi overcome them? a/publications/greece-and- crete/biographycaught-chickens-and-ate- Watch a range of videos such as them-raw
Living Black’s Unidentified https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/co Soldier, Indigenous Servicemen nflicts/korean-war/events/china- through the Years and ABC intervenes-korean-war/captain-reg- Message Stick’s ANZAC, and saunders discuss issues of equality, identity, recognition and life after service raised. WW1: http://bushtv.com.au/team/ww1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys39 pRNFbEc Group portrait of Aboriginal women and girls knitting socks, jumpers and balaclavas for the Shrine of Remembrance Poster Comp: war effort at Cummeragunja Government Mission, NSW (opposite Barmah, Vic) on the http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Post Murray River. Identified, left to right, back row: Merle Morgan, June Morgan, Weeny Charles, Amy Briggs, Valda McGee, Edna Walker, Sheila Charles, Joan Charles, Elsie Cooper, er-Competition Midge Walsh, Florry Walker. Front row: Joyce Atkinson, Clare Charles, Alma Charles, Ada Cooper, Nelly Davis?, Elizabeth Morgan, Lauraine Charles, Greta Cooper, Violet Charles, Wynnie Walker, Hilda Walker, Georgina Atkinson, Lydia Morgan, Reta Cooper, Maggie Weston. Australian War Memorial: P01562.001.
NAIDOC 2014 poster see http://www.naidoc.org.au/poster-gallery
Special platoon of Aboriginal soldiers, all volunteers, at Number 9 camp Wangaratta, Vic. 1940-2 Australian War Memorial: P02140.002.
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. MAY 26 National Sorry Day National Sorry Day was born out Stolen Generations resources and Did you know that a Lake Tyres, of a key recommendation made testimonies: Victorian Aboriginal team, Aboriginal Station, May by the National Inquiry into the http://vaeai.org.au/_uploads/rsfil/000386 led by Wotjobaluk man Aug. 14th, 1930. Separation of Aboriginal and _fadc.pdf and star all-rounder Most Excellency Lord Stonehaven, Torres Strait Islander children Unaarrimin aka Johnny State Governor, http://www.stolengenerationstestimonies from their families in the Bringing Mullagh, was the first Canberra House, N.S.W. .com/ them Home Report that was sports team to represent I'm a full - blooded Aboriginal by birth decent from Royal Blood. I used to write tabled in Federal Parliament on http://indigenousrights.net.au/ Australia overseas and letters to Queen Victoria in my young days. Your most Excellency, I beg to ask of 26 May 1997. began a 6-month tour of his Excellency a great favour - would his Excellency kindly grant me permission http://indigenousrights.net.au/resources England in May 1868? to get my three grand - children who were snatched suddenly from me by an Download the National Sorry Day Ordering Council under escort of Nurse Singleton from Lake Tyres Aboriginal Committee’s excellent resource http://www.australianstogether.org.au/st Sporting Life reported that Reserve, transferred to the State Public Home, Melbourne. Three girls ages ranging Learning about the Stolen ories/detail/the-stolen-generations “No eleven in one season from 13 years, 5¼ years, baby 2½ years Mary Darby, Sarah Darby and Nelly Darby. The three girls were my only comfort when their mother Lizzie Darby, my Generation: the NSDC’s school ever played so many daughter, expired nine months ago at the Bairnsdalegate Hospital. When we came resource for great classroom and http://www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/cc matches so successfully.” e/student_task_sheet_the_stolen_generat down to the town Captain Newman made a covenant with me in the presence of whole-of-school activities. ions,9737.html Patrol Walter M'Cready, that I could have the three grand - daughters till such time I'd be married. On the eve of my marriage to Mrs. Edwards who looked after and With students explore the deeply https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publicat never neglected the children, they were snatched away by an Ordering Council. I personal Stolen Generations ions/track-history-us-taken-away-kids- wish to bring under your Excellency's consideration the matter. I was decoyed to Testimonies site featuring the co.mmemorating-10th-anniversary- marry for the sake of the three grand - daughters, to keep them, and for them to be stories of those taken from their bringing-them-home snatched away by an Ordering Council. God is no respector of persons. We are in His sight equal to all His subjects. Before the white people came to Australia. God
homes and communities and gave us children to bring and train up for His service in our own disposition. Our Native XI and Unaarrimin or Johnny information about the disposition is instilled in our children and I don't consider it fair the white people Mullagh: subsequent Inquiry. should deprive us of our children to bring them up in their disposition. It can never http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.php/abo be done. riginal-affairs/projects-and- Organise a school National Sorry programs/leadership/victorian- Day event, such as an assembly, I am, Yr. obedient Servant, indigenous-honour-roll/victorian- (SGD.) Frederick Carmichael ceremony, concert, or oral indigenous-honour-roll-2011- history/ story sessions. inductees/johnny-mullagh-or-unaarrimin- With secondary students, explore 1841-1891 Source of the letter above: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/track-history-us-taken- the excellent National Museum away -kids-commemorating-10th-anniversary-bringing-them-home Australia site Collaborating for http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/collec Indigenous Rights and teaching tion_interactives/cricketing_journeys/cric resources and work through ket_html/the_australian_eleven/the_aust activities with your students. ralian_eleven_the_first_australian_team
AIATSIS holds over 500 Sorry National Sorry Day is a day of commemoration and remembrance for the http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an13938309 Stolen Generations - the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children Books; 461 these have been placed on the UN Australian forcibly removed from their families, communities and cultures between Memory of the World Register the 1800s and the 1970s. The first Sorry Day was held in Sydney on 26 May 1998, and has been commemorated nationally on 26 May each year since then, with thousands of Australians from all walks of life participating in memorial services, commemorative meetings, survival celebrations and community gatherings, in honour of the Stolen Generations.
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Sorry Books: The Sorry Books were a response to the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, which released its findings in 1997. A key recommendation of the Bringing them home report was the need for official acknowledgement of, and apology for, the forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
The Sorry Books are a powerful record of the personal responses of Australians to the unfolding history of the Stolen Generations. They are a “people’s apology” for past wrongs to Indigenous Australians, a public expression of regret, compassion, and hope. The Sorry Books campaign was launched in Sydney on Australia Day, 26 January 1998. Over the following four months, around 1000 Sorry Books were circulated around Australia by ANT, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, and networks of volunteers. Many organisations and individuals also made up their own Books.
Over time, state and territory governments issued apologies for the laws, policies and practices which had governed forcible removal. However, at that time, the Australian Government, refused to make a formal National Apology in the Australian Parliament and instead offered a motion of reconciliation.
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. 27 Anniversary of the On 1 January 1901, the Australian Digger J. Jones: On 27 May 1967, the Australian Government held a referendum. 1967 Referendum Constitution came into effect, http://www.scholastic.com.au/schools/ed This was a momentous turning point in Australian history. More than 90 May establishing the Commonwealth ucation/teacherresources/assets/pdfs/Dig per cent of Australian voters chose ‘Yes’ to count Aboriginal and Torres of Australia. There were two ger_J_Jones_TN.pdf Strait Islander peoples in the census and give the Australian Government references to Aboriginal people the power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait http://www.macquariepenanthology.com. contained in the Australian Islander peoples. au/files/unit_3.pdf Constitution of 1901. Firstly, section 51 of the Constitution ’67 Referendum: The purpose of the 1967 Referendum was to make two changes to the gave the Commonwealth power http://indigenousrights.net.au/civil_rights Australian Constitution. These changes enabled the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to /the_referendum,_1957-67 Government to: ‘people of any race, other than the Aboriginal race in any state, http://aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/referend (i)Make laws for all of the Australian people by amending s51 of the for whom it was deemed um-australia-had-have Constitution (previously people of the ‘Aboriginal race in any state' were necessary to make special laws.’ excluded) and; Secondly, section 127 of the http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/2 9241/australia-s-1967-referendum Constitution provided that ‘in (ii)Take account of Aboriginal people in determining the population of
reckoning the numbers of people Australia by repealing s127 of the constitution (formerly, Aboriginal people Vote yes for Aborigines: of the Commonwealth, or of a http://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/0/ had been haphazardly included in the census but not counted for the State or other part of the 492.html?words=vote+yes purposes of Commonwealth funding grants to the states or territories) Commonwealth, aboriginal Did you know that from natives shall not be counted’. School referendum: 1947 Aboriginal and Torres From 1967, Aboriginal people were counted in the census and included in The states remained responsible http://geckos.ceo.wa.edu.au/primary/soci Strait Islander People were base figures for Commonwealth funding granted to the states and al-political/Pages/1967-referendum.aspx for the welfare of Aboriginal counted in the official territories on a per capita basis.
people until the 1967 Commonwealth census but referendum. Faith Bandler: Contrary to popular thinking the 1967 Referendum did NOT http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/1568/ were first classified as
Polynesians, then as Pacific give Aboriginal peoples the right to vote With secondary students explore Islanders? Prior to this, give Aboriginal peoples citizenship rights the excellent ‘67 Referendum site Torres Strait Islander give Aboriginal peoples the right to be counted in the census. Collaborating for Indigenous people were regarded as Rights and teaching resources 'aboriginal natives', and and incorporate suggested were excluded from activities into your lessons. population figures if they Explore the AIATSIS site: The were of more than 50 per Referendum Australia Had to cent Torres Strait Islander Have. heritage. See: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/myth With upper primary school s-persist-about-the-1967-referendum and students set up a school http://abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected] referendum around issues /Lookup/2071.0Feature+Article2July relevant to your school or local +2011 community and involve students in electoral processes as a prelude to discussions about the 1967 Referendum.
With older students study the highly readable novel Digger J. Jones by prominent Gunditjmara Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. author Richard Franklin. This is a great story! Teaching notes offer a range of class discussion points. Digger J. Jones tells the story of Digger - an Aboriginal boy caught up in the events of the 1960s and the lead up the 1967 Referendum which officially counted Aboriginal people in Australia as citizens in the eyes of the Federal Government.
With your students watch Vote Yes for Aborigines (2007) directed by Yorta Yorta woman Frances Peters-Little about the 1967 referendum and the campaign for Aboriginal citizenship rights that led up to it. Download the teachers’ study guide to Vote Yes for Aborigines and design some lessons and activities suitable for your students
Investigate the role of the Victorian-based Aborigines Advancement League in the ’67 referendum.
Watch the short video with Faith Bandler, former Secretary of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders talking about why it was so important to have a referendum and discuss with students.
50 years on from the 1967 referendum, WA Nhanhagardi Elder Clarrie Cameron shares some of his memories of this historic event. For a strong contemporary Aboriginal perspective on being Aboriginal in this era, watch the short video and discuss points and issues raised. Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. 27 National If your school does not already Reconciliation resources: Did you know that What is Reconciliation week? Reconciliation have one, consider developing a www.reconciliation.org.au Reconciliation week starts National Reconciliation Week celebrates the relationship between May- Week Reconciliation Action Plan and with the anniversary of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and all other Australians. Every year, include activities linking National https://www.reconciliation.org.au/raphub/ 1967 Referendum and the week is held between the same dates, 27 May to 3 June. The dates 3 June Sorry Day and Reconciliation ends on the anniversary of draw attention to significant historical events. The 27 May marks the day https://www.reconciliation.org.au/nationa Action Week, so that colleagues l-reconciliation-week/ the Mabo victory, which in 1967 when the referendum was passed for the Australian Government and students see how these days led to the Australian to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and to allow them are inter-connected. Include Government recognising to be recognised in the census. The 3rd of June marks the day in 1992 that students, colleagues and your Two Mates: native title and led the Australian Government to recognise native title and acknowledge LAECG where possible in its http://www.magabala.com/two- acknowledging Indigenous Indigenous Australians as the original occupants of Australia. development. mates.html Australians as the original occupants of Australia? To find out more about http://www.magabala.com/media/wysiwy Reconciliation Action Plans g/pdf/Two_Mates.pdf
(RAPs), and about planning
events to celebrate National Reconciliation Week, contact Reconciliation Australia and/or download their Teaching and Learning Ideas resources for National Reconciliation Week.
With younger students read stories to encourage thinking about reconciliation such as the Broome-set Two Mates by Melanie Prewett (teaching resources available).
With local Koorie community members and colleagues organise a week of cultural activities such as performances, films, stories, workshops. Focus on the contribution that Aboriginal people have and continue to make to Australian society, and work with students to complete a variety of tasks that explore what reconciliation means for young Australians.
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. 31 Annual Shrine of Consider attending the annual Shrine of Remembrance Victorian The Shrine of Remembrance Victorian Aboriginal Commemorative Remembrance Victorian Aboriginal Aboriginal commemorative service: Service, is an annual commemoration and wreath laying ceremony for May Victorian Aboriginal commemorative service at the http://www.shrine.org.au/Remembrance/ Indigenous Soldiers held at 11am on the 31st May. Commemorative Shrine of Remembrance, 11am Services?page=11 Service with your students. The winning poster in the Shrine of Remembrance Poster Competition, Indigenous Service Publication: will become the official Remembrance Day 2018 poster for the Shrine of https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/education/
Download DVA’s Indigenous resources Remembrance, and will appear on banners and posters around the City of Service publications for primary Melbourne. and secondary schools for Poster Competition: background and suggested http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Post Schools awarded prizes to the winning and highly commended artworks inquiry activities. Search er-Competition will receive a selection of books from Department of Veterans’ Affairs, a ‘Indigenous Service’). personalised visit to the Shrine and will be invited to place a flower in the Field of Poppies whilst attending the Official Remembrance Day Service on
Enter the Shrine of Remembrance 2015 Shrine of Remembrance 11 November, 2018. Winning entries and highly commended artworks will Poster Competition and design Poster Competition, winning be displayed in an exhibition at the Shrine to coincide with Remembrance posters highlighting the entry by Emily Hall, Grade 5, Day 2018. See more at: http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Poster-Competition Genazzano FCJ College, Kew participation of Aboriginal service men and women as a class or whole-school activity (entries close September 2018, date TBC).
JUNE 3 Mabo Day Held on June 3rd each year, Eddie Koiki Mabo: Did you know that when feasts, dance and celebrations http://www.abc.net.au/tv/mabo/welcome/ Europeans first settled the June can be found not only in the Port Phillip region it was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabo_Day Torres Strait but all over the already occupied by five Australian mainland to honour an Behind the News report: Aboriginal language amazing man. http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3765672. groups? These groups htm spoke a related language Watch the BTN report about the and were part of what is life of Eddie Mabo and why he is ABC Mabo Classroom: commonly called the http://www.abc.net.au/tv/mabo/videos/?pl such a significant Australian. KULIN (koo-lin) nation of ay=messagestick_2012_ep17.mp4 peoples. The five language With students listen to the ABC http://www.abc.net.au/tv/mabo/timeline/ groups are: Wathaurong, National podcast Don’t Fence Me Woiwurrung, Taungerong, In - a deeply personal account Yorta Yorta land justice struggle: Dja Dja Wurrung and Boon about Edie Mabo presented by https://waynera.wordpress.com/yorta- Wurrung. yorta-struggle-for-land-justice/ family spokesperson Gail Mabo
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. they remember what life was like while the court case consumed their lives - full of stories we've not heard before about Eddie Koiki Mabo.
In 2010 a campaign was launched to make Mabo Day a national Map source: holiday in Australia. With your http://lrd.kangan.edu.au/indigenous students develop a proposal for %20sporting%20heros/images/kulin making Mabo Day a national map.jpg public holiday, and consider sending it to your local member. Explore the excellent ABC Mabo website learning resources, and Mabo Day Celebrations in Townsville, QLD 2011 see: Native Title timeline and discuss http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2011/06/03/3235188.htm the importance of Native Title
with your students.
Significant in Victoria is the rejection of the Yorta Yorta Native Title case in 1998 in the High Court - a decision upheld again in 2002. With senior secondary students discuss: to what extent does the concept of justice correlate with courts upholding laws; and to what extent is the law adequate in addressing issues of justice, under current Native Title legislation?
Comprehensive information about the Yorta Yorta Struggle for Land Justice can be found on the ‘On country Learning Course’ Image source: https://waynera.wordpress.com/yorta-yorta-struggle-for-land-justice/ Wordpress site.
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. 5 World Environment Visit or learn about Victorian World Environment Day "Gunditjmara will conserve World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 to raise global Day Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA) http://www.un.org/en/events/environme Lake Condah. It is an awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet June in Victoria, such as Kurtonitj or ntday/ important Gunditjmara Earth. Lake Condah in the South-west of place and we have fought Victoria. IPAs across the country hard over many Indigenous Australians have managed their country for tens of thousands of years. IPAs: An Indigenous Protected Area is an area of Indigenous-owned land or sea where can be found by selecting the generations to see it https://www.environment.gov.au/indigen traditional owners have entered into an agreement with the Australian online map. ous/ipa/declared/vic.html returned to us so that we Government to promote biodiversity and cultural resource conservation. can heal this land. Indigenous Protected Areas make a significant contribution to Australian Watch the video with https://www.environment.gov.au/indigen Gunditjmara will restore biodiversity conservation - making up over a third of Australia's National Reserve Gunditjmara Elder Ken Saunders ous/ipa/declared/kurtonitj.html the natural abundance of System. about Museum Victoria’s Bush the lake and its native Blitz Program, working with http://www.environment.gov.au/indigeno plants and animals for us Bush Blitz Traditional Owners in Indigenous us/ipa/declared/lake-condah.html today and our future The overall thrust of the Bush Blitz activities provides opportunities for students to Protected Areas, and investigate generations" develop their knowledge and understanding about: the program and some of the • the meaning of biodiversity in the context of Australian ecosystems Bush Blitz and Lake Condah: •the classification processes used in describing organisms and how these flora and fauna surveyed. Where Ken Saunders, Gunditjmara https://youtu.be/H9cnyd6QgCI processes may lead to the identification of previously unknown species else is Bush Blitz working? Elder •species that are threatened within Australian ecosystems. See: http://asta.edu.au/resources/bushblitz http://www.environment.gov.au/indi Download the Bush Blitz teaching genous/ipa/declared/lake- TeachLive is an educational program developed by Earthwatch Australia in 2003. resource produced by the http://bushblitz.teachlive.org.au/index.ph condah.html Since its inception, the program has seen Primary and Secondary teachers teach Australian Science Teachers p/resources/resources 'live' back to their classrooms from some of the most rich and diverse ecosystems Association (ASTA), and work Did you know that the around the world. From calling classrooms via satellite phone in the dark with local community members http://bushblitz.teachlive.org.au/ Gunditjmara in the South rainforests of Brazil's Pantanal, to skype sessions from Australia's Outback, and Koorie educators to include West of Victoria teachers who take part in the program not only experience scientific research at some of the activities, such as http://bushblitz.org.au/ established intricate its best, but are given the opportunity to bring a unique learning experience to their students and schools. It is through education that we gain the understanding inviting local Koorie Community kuuyang (kooyang) or eel Bush Tucker: necessary to enact change and continue to strive for innovative and effective trapping and farming members to talk to your students Koorie plants, Koorie people : traditional strategies for conserving our environment. and tell them what they know Aboriginal food, fibre and healing plants of systems, and developed about the movement and Victoria by Nelly Zola and Beth Gott smoking techniques to IPA Map: http://155.187.2.69/indigenous/ipa/map.html interactions among animals in the preserve and trade their local area. Note that this book is out of print harvest - possibly one of currently, but available in many lending the first cultures in the Do you have a ‘Bush Tucker’ libraries – click on link below for holding world to do so. expert in your region? libraries: Learning about bush tucker is a http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22736054?q &versionId=44604945 great introduction to
Australian plant species.
Teachers might want to investigate the pilot educational program- Bush Blitz Teachlive.
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. 6 Anniversary of With students explore the http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/teachers/source Batman's Treaty: Today we acknowledge the anniversary of the signing of Batman’s Treaty, National Museum Australia’s -analysis-john-batmans-treaty Batman's Treaty in 1835 by a group of 8 Kulin Elders - including Wurundjeri June signed in 1835 educational resources focused on Ngurungaetas (most senior leaders) Bebejan (Babajen) and three brothers Batman’s treaty. http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melb with the same name, Jika Jika (Jaga Jaga) or Billibellary – and John Batman, ourne_details.php?id=5579 an Australian born grazier, businessman and explorer, for the purchase of
Visit State Library Victoria’s land around Port Phillip, near the present site of the city of Melbourne. http://www.nma.gov.au/education/resour teachers page which examines, ces/multimedia/interactives/batmania through primary source analysis John Batman believed he was purchasing 600,000 acres, and paid 40 pairs and stimulating discussion http://www.nma.gov.au/engage- of blankets, 42 tomahawks, 130 knives, 62 pairs of scissors, 40 looking questions , some of the problems learn/resources/multimedia/interactives/ glasses, 250 handkerchiefs, 18 shirts, 4 flannel jackets, 4 suits of clothes historians have with John batmania_html_version/the_deed and 150 lb. of flour. Batman's 'treaty' . First People: Batman's Treaty is significant, as it was the first and only documented time View a graphic of Batman's https://museumsvictoria.com.au/books/in when Europeans negotiated their presence and occupation of Aboriginal Treaty including a transcript of digenous-cultures/ lands directly with the traditional owners, in accordance with English
the Batman Land Deed. Common Law. However the treaty was declared void by the Governor of Kulin: http://www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/ New South Wales, Richard Bourke on the basis that the Kulin people did After researching Batman’s kulin-nation/index_wide.cfm?loadref=32 not have a right to deal with the land, which ‘belonged’ to the Crown. Treaty, discuss mutual (mis) understandings, alternate world https://museumvictoria.com.au/about/bo views and the terms of this oks-and-journals/books/indigenous- original transaction. cultures/back-list/first-people-the- eastern-kulin-of-melbourne-port-phillip-- With your students learn as much central-victoria/ as you can about the Kulin
Nations.
For a great description of the Kulin including the signing of the treaty and daily life in days gone by, purchase copies of or borrow First People: The Eastern Kulin of Melbourne, Port Phillip & Central Victoria (Presland G. MV)
Map source: http://lrd.kangan.edu.au/indigenous %20sporting%20heros/images/kulinmap.jpg
John Batman’s famous treaty, Merri Creek, Northcote 1835. By George Rossi Ashton. National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an9025854
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. 30 Coranderrk Visit the Minutes of Evidence Coranderrk and Minutes of Evidence: Did you know that On the 30th June 1836, the Victorian Government Gazette reported that Aboriginal reserve website and learn more about http://www.minutesofevidence.com.au/ Coranderrk gets its name 2,300 acres of land around Badger’s Creek in what is now Healesville, had June officially gazetted Coranderrk and its significance and from the Woiwurrung been temporarily reserved “for the use of Aborigines (in lieu of the land at http://www.troublemag.com/coranderrk- explore the Coranderrk Teacher nd in 1863 we-will-show-the-country/ name of the plant known Watt’s Creek) by Order of the 22 June 1863”, following a deputation to Resource Package on FUSE, aligned in English as the Victorian Queen Victoria during her visit in the same year, by 15 Wurundjeri to the Victorian Curriculum, and http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/vufind/Re Xmas Mint Bush? (Woiwurrung), Boon Wurrung and Taungurung people. targeted to Years 9 and 10: History cord/46211 & Civics and Citizenship, easily See: adapted for other year levels. If Mission Voices – Coranderrk: http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1863&class=general&page_num=1447&state=V&classNum able to, visit Coranderrk in http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006 =G68 Healesville. 1123- 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/corand Explore the excellent Mission errk/default.html Voices website and teacher Barrak: resources around the Coranderrk http://www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/sto reserve. This site is dedicated to all ries-voices/index.cfm?loadref=91 the Aboriginal missions and reserves in Victoria, once used to Wandoon: control the movements and http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006 activities of Victorian Koories. 1123- 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/conten Purchase or borrow the excellent t/download/256/812/file/Aunty%20Joy%20 Coranderrk: We Will Show the Murphy%20Interview.pdf
Country (2013) about Coranderrk Bansfield: and the 1881 Parliamentary http://www.minutesofevidence.com.au/stati Enquiry. c/media/uploads/Book%20Excerpts/excerpt _-_thomas_bamfield.pdf Listen to the 2013 ABC Radio Coranderrk in flower interview podcast Leave Us Here: Dunolly:
150 years of Coranderrk with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dunoll
senior descendants of Coranderrk y Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin, Murrundindi, Aunty Carolyn Briggs, Wurundjeri Stories at Pound Bend: http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j& Uncle Wayne Atkinson and others. q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CDsQF jAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manningham There are many heroes .vic.gov.au%2Ffile%2F5526%2Fdownload&ei surrounding Coranderrk and many =3YGNVKLdHsPtmgWruoL4Dw&usg=AFQjCN stories of success, resilience, EEAMz53VDfffzFNG4_YsIYNn663A&bvm=bv. survival and injustice. With your 81828268,d.dGY students explore the lives of Wurundjeri, Taungurung and Dja Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country Dja Wurrung heroes: William (2013) http://aiatsis.gov.au/publications/products/ Barak, John Green, Thomas coranderrk-we-will-show-country/ebook Bamfield, Robert Wandoon, Coranderrk petition - Activist William Barak and others sent this petition on behalf of the Aboriginal Thomas Dunolly and Caroline Awaye Podcast - Leave Us Here: 150 years people of Coranderrk to the Victorian Government in 1886, see: Morgan and their involvement in of Coranderrk: https://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whatson/current- exhibitions/melbournestory/favourite-objects/coranderrk-petition/ the Coranderrk Parliamentary http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/progra Inquiry of 1888. ms/awaye/27leave-us-here273a-150-years- of-coranderrk/5144226 Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. 8-15 NAIDOC week NAIDOC week can be recognised Aboriginal Flag: Did you know that the NAIDOC celebrations are held around Australia each July to celebrate the in schools at any time of the year, http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ Australian Aboriginal Flag history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander July but holding events close to the national/designer-of-aboriginal-flag- was designed by artist peoples. The week is celebrated not just in the Indigenous communities actual official week makes it harold-thomas-wants-help-to-find-the- Harold Thomas and first but also in increasing numbers of government agencies, schools, local more relevant. With local Koorie original-one/news- flown at Victoria Square in councils and workplaces. story/499a9bc382192fc76df8852ae260af2 community members and Adelaide, South Australia, 9 colleagues organise a range of on National Aborigines NAIDOC Week 2018 will celebrate the invaluable contributions that cultural activities such as http://www.naidoc.org.au/indigenous- Day, 12 July 1971? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have made – and continue to performances, films, stories, and australian-flags make - to our communities, our families, our rich history and to our nation. workshops. Under the theme - "Because of Her, We Can!" - NAIDOC Week 2018 will be NAIDOC: held nationally from Sunday 8 July and continue through to Sunday 15 July. NAIDOC week 2018 looks to http://www.naidoc.org.au/about/naidoc- highlight the contributions of history/ Meerreeng-an Here Is My Country: The Story of Aboriginal Victoria Told Aboriginal and Torres Strait Through Art, portrays the richness and diversity of Victorian Aboriginal Islander women across family, http://www.naidoc.org.au/ culture through artworks and stories from the early 19th century to the
community and society. Dedicate present day. Victorian Koorie Art and history: a week to whole-of- school and class activities celebrating our Keeler, Couzins: Meerreeng-an Here Is My Over 340 artworks and artefacts are featured, from shields, baskets and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Country: The Story of Aboriginal Victoria possum skin cloaks to contemporary artworks dealing with the Stolen communities and heritage. Told Through Art (2010, KHT) Generations, land rights and reconciliation. Old and new are woven Keeping with the 2018 theme together, demonstrating the continuation of culture, and words and ‘Because of Her we Can!’, focus http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37177835?q phrases from Victorian Aboriginal languages are used throughout. on the contributions of Aboriginal &versionId=48292062 Artists describe their own artworks, and stories and quotes from Elders and Torres Strait Islander women and other community members provide cultural and historical context, across the country to our http://koorieheritagetrust.com.au/collecti telling of the importance of Country, of life before Europeans arrival, of ons/publications-resources/ communities, our families, our invasion and dramatic change, of dislocation and missions, and of the
rich history and to this nation. survival and strength of the living culture.
Contact the NAIDOC Committee for posters and local events.
Learn more about the history of the Koorie Flag here.
Immerse your students in Meerreeng-an Here Is My Country: The Story of Aboriginal Victoria Told Through Art
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Photo: NAIDOC Day Melbourne, 2011- Vaso Elefsiniotis
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. 24 Anniversary Read more about the history of Struggle for land rights: Framlingham was an Aboriginal reserve established by the Board for the Framlingham the Framlingham community and https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid Protection of Aborigines in Victoria, in 1861. It is located beside the July Mission handover the history of the reserve here. =1300&dat=19800902&id=qu5UAAAAIBAJ Hopkins River in the territory of the Kirrae wurrung near the boundary with (1971) &sjid=npIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5150,295288&hl the Gunditjmara, not too far from Warrnambool on the south-west coast Listen to interviews with =en of the state. The reserve operated until it was closed in 1916, with
Framlingham residents Uncle Aboriginal community members continuing to reside there today. Mission Voices – Framlingham:
Lenny Clarke and Uncle Bill http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/200 Edwards on the Mission Voices 61123- The people of Framlingham have fought hard for their country, from the site, here, and discuss aspects of 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/fram sustained guerrilla warfare waged by the Gunditjmara. Kerrupjmara and life on Framlingham with lingham/default.html Kirrae wurrung to the activism of residents in the later part of the students. twentieth century. Since invasion times Framlingham has been a place of http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/200 struggle. In the early days of its existence control of the station Prominent Gunditjmara Elder 61123- continuously shifted between the Board and the missionaries. The Board Banjo Clarke, also known as 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/fram attempted to shut Framlingham down a number of times but were met Rainbow man and Wisdom Man lingham/educational_tools/default.html with great resistance by the people of the mission and non-Aboriginal (school resources) was born on Framlingham. people in nearby townships. The people of Framlingham eventually won
Research Banjo Clarke’s life and http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/200 ownership of the place that had become home. In 1970, 586 acres were views 61123- handed over by the government in what was, along with Lake Tyers, the 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/fram first Aboriginal land rights victory in Australia. The handover was lingham/voices_of_framlingham/default.h formalised on the 24th July 1971. tml See http://www.atns.net.au/agreement.asp?EntityID=3461
http://www.atns.net.au/agreement.asp?E ntityID=3461
Our land til we die: a history of the Framlingham Aborigines http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24994790?s electedversion=NBD22225128
Banjo Clarke: http://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/clarke- banjo-17786 https://www.abccommercial.com/librarys ales/program/message-stick-banjo-clarke
https://www.amazon.com.au/Wisdom- Man-Banjo-Clarke- ebook/dp/B00APCN6UE
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. 24 Anniversary of Lake Read more about the history of Lake Tyers and Mission Voices: ‘Bung Yarnda’ is the true name of the mission known as Lake Tyers in Tyers (1971) the Lake Tyers community and http://indigenousrights.net.au/land_rights/l Victoria‘s Gippsland region. Originally the land of the Gunai/Kurnai people, July handover the history of the mission here ake_tyers,_1962-70 it became home to Aboriginal people from all over the state who were
and here and explore each http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006 forcibly removed from their homelands. Many years later, some of these dedicated site. 1123- same families were forced to leave the mission and ‘assimilate’ into 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/lake_t townships. The people of Lake Tyers have been strong and vocal in their Listen to the ‘Voice of Lake yers/default.html struggle to retain their land. In 1971 this fight was rewarded with the Tyers’, the experiences of handing back of Bung Yarnda to the people. The mission is surrounded by several who were part of the http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006 beautiful waterways and coastal bushland that has been a magnet for 1123- Lake Tyers mission. tourists since the 1870s 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/lake_t yers/mission_history/default.html Watch the Culture Victoria Lake Tyers for the Aborigines march, Melbourne 1963. Left to right: Clive Stoneham, Labor Leader of the Opposition, Bill Onus, Pastor Doug Nicholls, Joe video featuring Gunai/Kurnai http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006 McGinness and Laurie Moffatt lead 40 Aboriginal men and women protesting at the government's elders Murray Bull, and Elvie 1123- plans to close Lake Tyers. and Elaine Mullett about 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/lake_t Source: http://indigenousrights.net.au/land_rights/lake_tyers,_1962-70/campaign_to_save_lake_tyers growing up at Lake Tyers and yers/voices_of_lake_tyers/default.html
discuss life on the mission and Lake Tyers video: in the bush and the http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/aboriginal- significance of the handover culture/black-post-white/life-on-the- with students. Students can mission/ prepare a presentation using a range of media (drawings, Lake Tyers in the news: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12- animation, IT, narrative, oral 20/lake-tyers-residents-granted- history recordings, drama etc) landrights/5169430 depicting aspects of life at Lake Tyers. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/ 60449327/5733014 With your secondary students http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12- read The Black Swan: A Koorie 21/lake-tyers-history-piece/5170896 Woman’s Life by Gunai/Kurnai author and artist Eileen Harrison. The Black Swan: The Black Swan charts the way http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2011/07 the policy of assimilation /05/3261160.htm impacted on Eileen's family at Lake Tyers and her emerging talent as a painter.
The image of Lake Tyers Mission Station from a photograph by C. Walter in the next column provides students the opportunity to search newspaper archives through TROVE, read an article published in 1869 and edit/correct the digitised archive. Lake Tyers Mission Station, Gippsland from a photograph by C. Walter published in ‘The Illustrated Click on the image to go directly Australian News for Home Readers’ on the 14th to the digital archive. August 1869. Click on image for TROVE newspaper archive. Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. 27 Schools National Consider holding a whole-of- Planet Ark: Each year, around 2500 preschools, kindies, primary and high schools Tree Day school event planting local http://treeday.planetark.org/schools/ across Australia take part in Schools Tree Day. Students nation-wide have July Indigenous plants. Investigate the learnt how to plant, and care for the seedlings they grow. Schools Tree local Koorie language names and Preschool guide: Day 2015 is on Friday 25th July, although events can be held at any time uses for the plants – cultivate http://treeday.planetark.org/documents/ during the year. species that have known uses and doc-1029-preschools-guide.pdf'
initiate a school signage project incorporating names from the local Koorie language and uses.
Visit the Planet Ark website for more suggestions and resources about holding events at school.
Planting of Indigenous Wurundjeri garden at Thornbury Primary School (2015) – photo: Vaso Elefsiniotis
AUGUST 4 National Aboriginal National Aboriginal and Islander SNAICC: Did you know that Yorta National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day (NAICD) is held on 4 & Torres Strait Children's Day (NAICD) is a http://aboriginalchildrensday.com.au/ Yorta/Yuin musician August each year to honour and celebrate the importance of Aboriginal August Islander Children’s celebration of Aboriginal and Jimmy Little is said to be and Torres Strait Islander children within family and community. First held Day Torres Strait Islander children. http://www.snaicc.org.au/ the first Aboriginal pop- in 1988, the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Each year SNAICC produces and star with the gospel song (SNAICC) also uses the day to increase awareness in the wider community
sends out resources to help you ‘Royal Telephone’ rising to of important issues impacting on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
celebrate NAICD. the top of the charts in children. 1963? Visit the SNAICC website for See: suggested activities and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_ Little resources to help celebrate the
day within the school with the support of Koorie parents and local Koorie community members.
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. 9 International Day Consider a whole-of-school event IDWIP: Did you know that the The International Day of the World’s Indigenous People is observed on of the World’s that could include an educational http://www.un.org/en/events/indigenous largest Aboriginal the 9th of August each year to recognise the first UN Working Group on August Indigenous People. forum, performances by day/ populations are in the Indigenous Populations meeting in Geneva in 1982. On December 23, Aboriginal and Torres Strait cities? Of the total 1994, the UN General Assembly decided that the International Day of the Islander artists, a panel discussion http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/u Aboriginal population, 31% World’s Indigenous People should be observed on August 9 annually n/international-day-indigenous-people on reconciliation or other live in major cities, 22% in during the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. The
classroom activities. Aboriginal Population map: inner regional Australia, International Day of the World's Indigenous People aims to promote and http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fac 23% in outer regional, 8% protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. tssheets/2011/fs201103_fig1_large.png in remote and 16% in very remote.
Click on map to enlarge:
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. 15 Anniversary of Learn about Wurundjeri hero William Barrack: William Barak’s activist and leader William William Barrack: King of the Yarra: August (Beruk Barak) Barak’s life, political involvement, http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- barak/5588/william-barak--king-of-the- death in 1903 art, homeland language and mob yarra/ (people). http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/aboriginal- Explore the many unique culture/william-barak/ artworks and artefacts created by William Barak, available through https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/Resource/ LandingPage?ObjectId=930c7016-09c4- FUSE. 46e8-9be4-5edd3cdecce3
Barak is one of a select group of http://aboriginalhistoryofyarra.com.au/teac nineteenth-century Aboriginal hersresource.pdf artists who welcomed the Did you know that in June opportunity to use new materials, http://www.sev.asn.au/teachers/files/CCE_R 2016, a painting entitled and to produce work on paper or eading/Barak_Imagined.pdf Ceremony by William Barak
cardboard for Europeans that http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barak- was auctioned in London. communicated important aspects william-2930 Descendants of Barak and of Aboriginal culture. The NGV’s the Wurundjeri Council illustrated resource explores NGV resources: attempted to raise funds Barak’s life and work, and http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/school_resource through crowd-funding to includes a detailed discussion of /remembering-barak/ purchase the painting and
return it home. As one of his subject matter and technique, https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/wp- and his life at Coranderrk content/uploads/2014/10/ngv_edu_edres_b only a few 19th century Aboriginal Station. A series of arak.pdf Aboriginal artists, each questions help students examine piece of Barak’s artwork Barak’s imagery. http://www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/sto holds incredible ries-voices/index.cfm?loadref=91 significance for Aboriginal
When researching the life, ethno- people in Victoria today. http://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- cultural background and works of barak/5729/auntie-joy-wandin-murphy- The painting was sold to a prominent Koories, try and speaks-about-william-barak/ private collector for over source interviews, articles etc half a million dollars, from descendants and Koorie http://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- double the estimated barak/5726/the-william-barak-collection-at- community members for amount! authentic Aboriginal perspectives. the-koorie-heritage-trust/ See https://theconversation.com/explain http://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- er-the-importance-of-william-baraks- Ceremony, with wallaby and emu: This painting features a ceremony which Download the interview of barak/5731/when-the-wattles-bloom/ ceremony-60846 depicts hunting, with wallaby and emu. William Barak was ngurunggaeta (a Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Joy clan leader) of the Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri). Wandin-Murphy by Yorta Yorta http://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- /Jaara artist Lou Bennet and barak/7609/remembering-barak/ See: http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william-barak/5565/ceremony-with-wallaby-and-emu/ study with your students. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006 1123- Consider how interviews of 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/conten Aboriginal people by Aboriginal t/download/256/812/file/Aunty%20Joy%20 people, draw out particular Murphy%20Interview.pdf personal reflections and cultural information.
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. SEPT- 5 Indigenous Literacy There are many ways to get Indigenous Literacy Day: Did you know that Indigenous Literacy Day is a national celebration of Indigenous culture, Day involved in 2018, when it comes to http://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation. Aboriginal people generally stories, language and literacy. Celebrated during Literacy Week on the 1st EMBER Sept. Indigenous Literacy, we org.au/ prefer to tell their Wednesday in September, Indigenous Literacy Day also aims to raise funds believe that EVERY DAY should be traditional stories their to raise literacy levels and improve the lives and opportunities of about Indigenous literacy. There’s a http://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation. own way? Work with Indigenous Australians living in remote and isolated regions. org.au/schools.html host of fantastic books written and Aboriginal educators and illustrated by Aboriginal http://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation. Koorie community The Black Swan by Gunai / Kurnai author and artist Eileen Harrison charts people across the nation. members to bring the way the policy of assimilation impacted on Eileen's family at Lake Tyers org.au/indigenous-literacy-day.html authentic storytelling to and her emerging talent as a painter. Check out the Indigenous Literacy The Black Swan: your students. Foundation website for events and http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2011/07 Told in diary form, Digger J. Jones tells the story of Digger - an Aboriginal boy activity suggestions to support /05/3261160.htm caught up in the events of the 1960s and the lead up the 1967 Referendum Indigenous Literacy Day. which officially counted Aboriginal people in Australia as citizens in the eyes of
http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.a the Federal Government. Consider running a fundraiser spx?page=94&book=9781742375533 leading up to or following Indigenous Literacy Day and make http://www.creativespirits.info/resources/ a donation to the Indigenous books/black-swan-a-koorie-womans-life Literacy Foundation – some inspiring examples can be found on Deadly Books: their website. http://www.better- beginnings.com.au/resources/deadly- Explore a range of Aboriginal books-little-kids-0 literature with your students, from children’s stories like TomTom, to Tom Tom: fiction, plays, poetry essays, and http://www.lemonadesprings.com.au/htm autobiographies such as The Black l/teacher_resources.html
Swan: A Koorie Woman’s Life by
Gunai/Kurnai author and artist Little Black Trackas: Eileen Harrison. With older http://www.snaicc.org.au/product/advent students study the highly readable ures-little-black-trackas/ novel Digger J. Jones by prominent Gunditjmara author Richard Nyernila: Listen Continuously – Aboriginal Franklin. Teaching notes offer a Creation Stories of Victoria: range of class discussion points. http://archive.creative.vic.gov.au/Projects _Initiatives/Indigenous_Arts_Initiatives/Ny ernila_%E2%80%93_Listen_Continuously_ With younger students, focus on Aboriginal_Creation_Stories_of_Victoria stories such as those suggested on the Better Beginnings site: Deadly VACL children’s books: books for little kids, the range of http://www.vaclang.org.au/category/child Victorian children’s stories ren-s.html published by the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Digger J. Jones: Languages (VACL) or The http://www.scholastic.com.au/schools/ed Adventures of the Little Black ucation/teacherresources/assets/pdfs/Dig Trackas by Bangerang educator and ger_J_Jones_TN.pdf
author Esme Bamblett. http://www.macquariepenanthology.com.
au/files/unit_3.pdf
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. Source or download a copy of https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/ Nyernila: Listen Continuously – books/general-books/literature-literary- Aboriginal Creation Stories of studies/Macquarie-PEN-Anthology-of- Victoria for a range of Victorian Aboriginal-Literature-Anita-Heiss-and- creation stories as told by Peter-Minter-9781741754384 Traditional Owners. (Note the downloadable version of Nyernila is currently unavailable in 2018).
The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, edited by Wiradjuri (NSW) writer Anita Heiss and Peter Minter is worth exploring with older students. The anthology includes journalism, petitions and political letters from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as major works that reflect the blossoming of Aboriginal poetry, prose and drama from the mid- twentieth century onwards. Authors include include Bennelong, William Barak, David Unaipon, Pearl Gibbs, Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal, Charles Perkins, Jack Davis, Kevin Gilbert, Lionel Fogarty, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Bob Randall, Jimmy Chi, Patrick Dodson, Marcia Langton, Jackie Huggins, Lisa Bellear, Alexis Wright, Kim Scott, Noel Pearson, Larissa Behrendt, Tony Birch, and Tara June Winch.
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. OCTOBER True spring Learn about With the weather warming up Seasons: Did you know that in late True spring: From late September to early December, when seed-eating aka significant foods after a long cold in many parts of Kulin: 2017, the International birds such as finches and parrots begin nesting, platypuses lay eggs, bush- poorneet or and plants for Victoria, explore Koorie seasons http://museumvictoria.com.au/forest/clim Astronomical Union (IAU) peas and lilies start flowering, the Yarra rises, tadpoles and aquatic insect tadpole Koories in Victoria in your region, such as the 6-7 ate/kulin.html approved 86 new names larvae abound in ponds and spectacular caper white butterfly migrations season by such as the staple seasons of the Wurundjeri and for stars drawn from those occur. Wurundjeri seasons: the murnong (yam learn about how the seasonal used by other cultures, http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM Wurundjeri. daisy) for the change is signalled through 01345b.htm namely Australian Traditionally, this was and is a time of plenty. Lilies, Orchids and Murnong Wurundjeri and plants, animals and other signs Aboriginal, Chinese, Coptic, flowered, and still provided root vegetables. Greens were consumed in others. such as the night sky. Where http://www.herringisland.org/seasons.ht Hindu, Mayan, Polynesian, large quantities. Flowers were everywhere -Wattles, Hop Goodenia, possible, invite knowledgeable m and South African? Four Burgan, Kangaroo Apple, as well as orchids and small lilies which had been Koorie cultural educators into the Aboriginal Australian star building their tubers over the winter. Snakes and Lizards became active, classroom to discuss further http://www.zoo.org.au/sites/default/files/ names were added to the young kangaroos came out of the pouch. Migrant birds - the Sacred Dreaming-bckgrd-notes.pdf IAU stellar name Kingfisher for example, returned from the north. Tadpoles appeared in Watch the video with Boon catalogue, including the ponds, and the river, fed by melting snows from the mountains, flowed Wurrung Elder Aunty Carolyn Jardwadjali and Djab Wurrung seasons Wardaman names into the flood-plains and replenished billabongs. Water-plants put on (Gariwerd - Grampians): Briggs who discusses how to Larawag, Ginan, and green leaves. Nowadays this flooding is prevented. http://www.brambuk.com.au/gariwerdsix gather and hunt for food with seasons.htm Wurren for the stars respect to seasons and ongoing designated ε (Epsilon) Bureau of Meteorology’s Indigenous Weather Knowledge website: life, and discuss traditional Boonwurrung seasons: Scorpii, ε (Epsilon) Crucis, This project aims to record 50,000 years of weather observation, sustainable practices with your http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/possum- and ζ (Zeta) Phoenicis, knowledge of weather phenomena, weather patterns and long-term students. skin-cloaks/11499/interview- respectively, and environmental changes by Indigenous Australians. boonwurrung-elder-carolyn-briggs/ significantly from Victoria, With your students and based on the Boorong name research, re-design an alternative Gunditjmara seasons: Unurgunite for the star seasonal calendar for your region, http://monash.edu/sustainability- (Sigma) Canis Majoris (an institute/assets/documents/seminars/12- highlighting key changes in the ancestral figure who fights 11-15_ikcc_day-gunditj-mirring.pdf natural environment - be creative the Moon), representing in naming. Wergaia (mallefowl season): some of the most ancient http://www.malleefowlvictoria.org.au/ab star names in the IAU If your school environment originalAstronomy.html catalogue. allows, consider raising some See: frogs from tadpoles in the Climate Watch: https://www.iau.org/news/press releases/detail/iau1707/ classroom and document their http://www.climatewatch.org.au/
lifecycle; when it’s time to return
them to their original water Bureau of Meteorology: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/index.shtml source do so with care and
ceremony. Frog life-cycle: http://www.frog-life-cycle.com/ Phenology is the science of the timing of natural cycles. Discuss with students how rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns due to climate change might cause these cycles to move. Record changes in
wildlife or plants on Climate
Watch, a resource where you can
help scientists understand what’s Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. happening with the behaviours of “Aboriginal ancestral common species of birds, insects and plants. narratives aren’t just
Go nature spotting using the about the land – Koorie seasons calendar as a they’re also about the guide for the wildlife and plants you might see. Museum Victoria Sun, the Moon and the has a succinct guide on the flora and fauna found in the Kulin stars. Indigenous nation. people have a very
Find out more about Indigenous holistic seasons in other Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities, using understanding of the the Bureau of Meteorology’s universe. It doesn’t just Indigenous Weather Knowledge website. stop at the horizon.”
Focus some learnings around the Stephen Gilchrist, Indigenous art curator night sky. The sky was and at Melbourne’s National Gallery of remains a stellar calendar Victoria. indicating when the seasons are shifting and when certain foods are available. For example within the spread of the Milky Way an emu is visible – not a constellation as such but a clear emu shape formed in the blend of star and black matter. At different times of the year this Emu in the Sky is oriented so it appears to be either running or sitting down. When the emu is ‘sitting’, it’s time to collect their eggs.
In late 2017, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved 86 new names for stars including four Aboriginal Australian star names one Victorian (see the ‘Did you know’ insert). For the stories behind the new names see the SBS article at https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/201 8/01/15/stories-behind-aboriginal-star- Emu egg time – image of painting used with permission of WA Wajarri/Inggarda artist names-now-recognised-worlds- Sonya Edney astronomical-body Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. NOV- 11 Remembrance Day Remember and acknowledge Did you know that on this Remembrance Day on the 11th November marks the anniversary of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait day in 1869, the Victorian armistice which ended the First World War (1914-18). Each year EMBER Nov. Islander men and women who colonial government Australians observe one minute silence at 11 am on 11 November, in fought and died in the Australian passed an act ''To Provide memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts. Services without citizenship for the Protection and rights, proper wages and due Management of the recognition. Aboriginal Natives of Victoria'', more commonly known as the Aborigines Protection Act 1869. This gave the Victorian Anniversary of the With older students read the Lest we forget a cruel act of government control of On this day in 1869, the Victorian colonial government passed an act ''To passing of the article Lest we forget a cruel act dispossession: where Aboriginal people Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Aborigines of dispossession, by Gunditjmara http://ht120tasks.blogspot.com.au/2009/ could live, of how they Victoria'', commonly known as the Aborigines Protection Act 1869. This Protection Act activist, singer/songwriter, author 11/ht125-blog-1-indigenous-history.html would relate to Europeans, gave the Victorian government control of where Aboriginal people could 1869 and film director, Richard Franklin of their labour and live, of how they would relate to Europeans, of their labour and earnings and Peter Lewis and discuss. Note earnings and of the ''care, and of the ''care, custody and education'' of all Aboriginal children. the original article printed in The custody and education'' of Age on November 11, 2009 can all Aboriginal children. no longer be easily accessed and therefore a reproduction is provided via this link to an Indigenous History unit blog.
21 Anniversary of the If you haven’t done so already, Walk the Talk: On 21 November 2004, Michael Long embarked an historic trek, walking Long Walk to register your school with The http://www.walkthetalk.org.au/ from his home in the suburbs of Melbourne all the way to Parliament Nov. Canberra Walk the Talk Education Program House in Canberra – more than 650 kilometres away. for free resources or a school visit http://www.walkthetalk.org.au/activity- and explore the interactive zone/ After returning home from yet another Aboriginal funeral, Michael decided
activity zone with students. that something needed to be done about the plight of his people. He took Walkers letter to Australian PM: http://www.walkthetalk.org.au/wp- it upon himself to get Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues back on With middle years or older content/uploads/2013/06/Long_Lettter_t the national agenda and resolved to meet with Prime Minister John students read the letter o_Prime_Minister_December_2004.pdf Howard to discuss his concerns… even if he had to walk all the way to presented to the then PM John Canberra to do it. Howard, and media reports about The Long Walk media reports: the Long Walk and discuss the http://www.theage.com.au/news/Nationa Michael was joined on the road by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal reasons behind it. Discuss with l/Howard-joins-the-Long- supporters from all over Australia. Some walked in support for an hour, your students the powerful journey/2004/12/03/1101923335406.html some for a day and some took the journey all the way to Canberra. As the impact and effect of mass walkers passed through the Victorian countryside, local people came out http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/T marches and walks, to meet them, offering encouragement, support and assistance. he-journey-is-just-beginning-Michael- Long/2004/12/03/1101923306889.html Walk the Talk tells the story of Michael Long’s walk to Canberra to Marches and Walks introduce Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies into schools and http://www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/cc encourage students to create change; while assisting in meeting the e/long_michael,15305.html Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and cultures cross curriculum priority of the Australian National Curriculum. http://www.deadlyvibe.com.au/2014/05/l ong-walk-equality/ Koorie Education Calendar 2018
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa l-affairs/in-depth/its-time-to-finally-fix- our-constitution/story-fnihym2m- 1226650066527
http://www.bunburymail.com.au/story/21 29602/journey-for-aboriginal-recognition- on-the-way-to-bunbury/
http://www.smh.com.au/national/marchi ng-for-a-fresh-beginning-20100527- whuu.html
Michael Long on his way to Canberra on the very first Long Walk to get Indigenous Affairs back on the agenda
Michel Long (centre) with walkers 10 years after the original Long Walk. See: http://www.deadlyvibe.com.au/2014/05/long-walk-equality/
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. DEC- The end of the school year is Learning About the Stolen Generations The Apology Anniversary The Little Red, Yellow, Black Book provides an entry-point to Indigenous fast approaching with teachers Resource: on 13th February, generally culture and history for everyone: adults who want to learn what they EMBER and students looking forward to http://vaeai.org.au/support/dspdefault.cf falls within the first weren’t taught at school, as well as migrants, tourists, trainers, institutions m?loadref=126 holidays. Use this time to plan a fortnight of school term, so and schools. plan early for next year When used as a teaching resource, the book introduces almost all the stimulating year of Koorie LRYBB: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/lryb/ involving local Aboriginal areas required for study in secondary Indigenous Studies curricula studies for all. and Torres Strait Islander throughout Australia, as well as large parts of Australian History and SOSE. Plan for Apology Anniversary 13th community members. February. The Apology Note that while The Little Red, Yellow, Black Book has been made for use in Anniversary generally falls NSW schools predominantly, there is a lot of content relevant to Victoria within the first fortnight of and activities can be suitably modified.
school term so plan early for Aboriginal Studies Press has developed a comprehensive teaching resource next year involving local Koorie for secondary or adult educators and Torres Strait Islander that includes: community members. • links to curriculum
• guidelines for ethical research Download the National Sorry Day • interpretation of subject matter for both teachers and students Committee’s excellent resource • ideas for further reading Learning about the Stolen • discussion questions and Generation: the NSDC’s school • a range of activities. resource for great classroom and
whole-of-school activities http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/lryb/
Purchase copies of the Little Red Yellow Black Book : An
introduction to Indigenous Australia, and explore the portal website , teaching resources and range of suggested activities and modify for use in Victorian schools if needed.
3 Eureka Day Research the involvement of Koorie involvement on the goldfields: The Eureka Stockade of 1854, which is celebrated on this day took Koories on the Victorian http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2004 place on Wathaurung Country, in the Ballarat District. Aboriginal people Dec. goldfields – an area largely /11/08/1244930.htm played an important role in the daily life of the Victorian goldfields,
unacknowledged. heavily involved in trade, as labourers, occasional miners and according http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- history/golden-victoria/life- to oral history carers of non-Koorie children. fields/aborigines-gold-rush
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?st oryid=53
Black Gold: Aboriginal People on the Goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870: http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/aboriginal- history-monographs/black-gold/pdf- download/
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Another Side of Eureka - the Aboriginal presence on the Ballarat goldfields in 1854 - Were Aboriginal people involved in the Eureka rebellion? http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/His tory/Bentley/2005-07.pdf
Sovereign Hill - Hidden Histories site: http://sovereignhillhiddenhistories.com.a u
http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00292b .htm
Possum skins: http://prov.vic.gov.au/publications/prove nance/provenance2005/dallong-possum- skin-rugs (as trade item)
Eugene von Guerard: http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00292b .htm
Aborigines met on the road to the diggings by Eugene von Guerard (1854) - NLA ref 1874055 used with permission of the National Library, Australia
5 Anniversary of Locate and learn about the Ebenezer mission: Did you know that in 1872, On Thursday 5th December 2013, the National Trust handed over their Ebenezer mission Ebenezer reserve on the mission http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/200 the State School in freehold interests in the Ebenezer Mission, Antwerp to Traditional Owners, Dec. reserve handover voices website. When the 61123- Gippsland’s Ramahyuck Registered Aboriginal Party and Native Title Holders, the Barengi Gadjin to Traditional mission was closed down in 1905 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/ebe Mission gained the highest Land Council Aboriginal Corporation Owners many residents were forced to nezer/default.html marks possible in a State-
relocate to Lake Tyers in http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/200 wide examination. Mr The Ebenezer Mission, gazetted in 1861 as the Lake Hindmarsh Aboriginal Gippsland. 61123- Charles Topp, Inspector of Reserve, was established in 1859 on the banks of the Wimmera River, the 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/ebe School for the Education land of the Wotjobaluk people, approximately 70 km north-west of Using maps locate all Victorian nezer/mission_history/default.html Department, reported Horsham. Two Moravian missionaries, F W Spieseke and Friedrich reserves and missions and discuss that: “This school has again Hagenauer took on its management. The Mission was closed in 1904. what it may have been like for http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal passed an excellent those who had settled at /issue/latrobe-76/t1-g-t3.html examination. This is the From 1968 until 1991, the National Trust managed the whole site of 0.8Ha, Ebenezer to be forced to live first case since the present assuming Committee of Management status for the Crown Land reserve outside of their Country, on land Missions and reserves map: result system has been and freehold ownership of the balance of the site. The Crown Land http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/200 Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. where they had no spiritual and 61123- enforced that 100% of reservation was revoked in 1991 and the Crown allotment was sold as cultural connections. 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/gen marks has gained by any freehold land to Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Co-op Ltd., a health and eral/missions_and_reserves_map/default. school in the Colony. The welfare cooperative. In recent years the Barengi Gadjin Land Council have Read about an ambitious project html children, moreover, show managed the site on the behalf of Goolum Goolum and the National Trust. connecting faces in 19th Century not only accuracy in their Handover: photographs to their work, but also exhibit much https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/news/e contemporary Aboriginal benezer-mission-handed-back-to- intelligence – excellent descendants to tell a new history traditional-owners/ progress is shown…”. It’s - in effect injecting Victorian important to note that the Aboriginal voices and http://www.mailtimes.com.au/story/1955 pupils’ teacher was Bessie perspectives into history - taken 786/ebenezer-mission-returns-to- Flower, perhaps the first at Ramahyuck Mission. traditional-owner/ Aboriginal state-school teacher. see Related to this project is the Ramahyuck Mission: http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/ojs multimedia story ‘No Longer a https://www.ramahyuck.org/about/ramah /index.php/ADEB/article/view/1 yuck-a-history/ 275/1272, and Wandering Spirit: the story of https://www.ramahyuck.org/abo Bessy Flowers’ on YouTube, who https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guid ut/ramahyuck-a-history/ was sent away from her ancestral e/vic/E000927 home in Albany Southern Western Australia at the age of 18 sent to live and teach at Aboriginal voices in the afterlife of Ramahyuck Mission where she photographs: Ebenezer Mission Station, 1892. Unknown photographer married a skilled Victorian https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/ab See: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061123- original-voices-in-the-afterlife-of- 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/ebenezer/art_photos_videos/default.html Aboriginal station worker Donald Cameron, from Ebenezer Mission, photographs
in NW Victoria. No Longer a Wandering Spirit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCar 1eaf6Gc
Victorian missions and reserves, see http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061123- 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/general/missions_and_reserves_map/default.html
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. 10 World Human Purchase a copy of the Victorian- Rights and Freedoms: The UN General Assembly proclaimed 10 December as Human Rights Day Rights Day based teacher resource - Rights http://www.htav.asn.au/shop/middle- in 1950, to bring to the attention 'of the peoples of the world' the Dec. and Freedoms with great years/rights-and-freedoms Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the common standard of background information, achievement for all peoples and all nations curriculum links and variety of Vote Yes for Aborigines: http://www.creativespirits.info/resources/ activities. This is particularly Rights and Freedoms: movies/vote-yes-for-aborigines
relevant for upper secondary Produced by the MTAV in consultation with Koorie community members, students. http://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/0/ this teacher resource examines Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights 492.html?words=vote+yes and freedoms in Australia in the context of international declarations and Explore the Indigenous Rights movements. Written for the Australian Curriculum: History at Year 10, it SLV website for an introduction About the making of Vote Yes for includes summaries, curriculum links, sources, varied activities and an to Native Title and the struggle Aborigines (2007): accompanying CD, relevant to both national and Victorian examples. for land, the history of http://press.anu.edu.au/node/342/downl Reconciliation in Australia, the oad Vote Yes for Aborigines: impact of European settlement Vote Yes for Aborigines gives you the Aboriginal perspective on the 1967 Talk about Rights: on Aboriginal communities in Referendum. http://e4ac.edu.au/units/year-
Victoria and how individuals 6/index.html spoke out for their right to fair “Such a good resource for teaching kids (and adults!) about the incredible treatment. SLV: http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- struggle which is still very relevant and ongoing today for Indigenous and history/fight-rights/indigenous-rights Non-Indigenous people of Australia.” —Primary school teacher With your students watch Vote Yes for Aborigines (2007) directed Talk about Rights Unit: by Yorta Yorta woman Frances This unit explores the changes to democratic and citizenship rights of Peters-Little about the 1967 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since 1900. Students are led referendum and the campaign for into issues through famous Australian speeches. They will explore how Aboriginal citizenship rights that authors use language in creative ways to persuade and describe, and how led up to it. people use written and spoken language to suit social purposes and address particular audiences. Download the teachers’ study guide to Vote Yes for Aborigines and design some lessons and activities suitable for your students.
With upper primary school students, explore the Talk about Rights unit website and teaching resources for a range of activities. Students are led into issues through famous Australian speeches.
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. 13 Anniversary of the With students locate Wotjobaluk, Aboriginal Languages of Victoria map: On the 13th December 2005, the Federal Court of Australia ruled in favour first successful Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and http://www.vaclang.org.au/item/aborigin of Native Title claimants the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia Dec. Native Title Jupagalk Country in the Wimmera al-languages-of-victoria.html and Jupagulk Peoples of Western Victoria. This determination was settlement in region of western Victoria and particularly significant for the Jardwadjali and Wergaia peoples as it was Victoria - found in learn as much as you can about Blak Inside: the first successful native title claim in south-eastern Australia. 2015 https://australianplays.org/script/CP-117 favour of the their connection to Country, their marks the 10th anniversary of this historic settlement.
Wotjobaluk, language and culture. See: Native Title article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotjobaluk,_Jaadwa,_Jadawadjali,_Wergaia_and_Jupagulk_Peoples_v_Vi Jaadwa, http://www.theage.com.au/news/nationa ctoria Jadawadjali, Read the age article about the l/past-gives-aborigines- Wergaia and native title recognition of the strength/2005/12/13/1134236064303.ht Blak Inside: Jupagalk Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, ml A collection of six plays from Victoria by Aboriginal writers which Traditional Owners Wergaia and Jupagulk Peoples. encompass a myriad of issues about the Aboriginal experience Discuss with students why this William John Kennedy Snr:
determination is so important. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.a
spx?aeid=1355#.VCOeZfmSwrV
Read about the life of Watjobaluk Tracey Rigney play - Belonging Elder Uncle William John Kennedy http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue Snr acknowledged by the NT 48/6380 court, who sadly passed away before Native Title settlement https://australianplays.org/script/CP-117 was reached. http://wheelercentre.com/events/present Discuss the commonality er/tracey-rigney/ between the first successful Native Title determination in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Guidelines for Drama/theatre Education: Australia (hint aka Mabo http://www.dramaaustralia.org.au/assets/ decision) and the first successful files/ATSIguidelinesFinalSept07.pdf determination in Victoria. What might it might be like to fight for years for Native Title recognition and to not live to see victory. How can we honour those activists? Photo source: http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/past-gives-aborigines- strength/2005/12/13/1134236064303.html
Learn about the works of Tracey Rigney - Wotjabaluk /Ngarrindjeri storyteller, actor and playwright - and study the play Belonging which follows the taunts and temptations of a school girl, and her personal struggle to remain true to her culture and herself. For advice and protocols around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drama/theatre education, see the excellent guidelines published by Drama Australia. Koorie Education Calendar 2018
. 24 Koorie children The Wathaurong and William Buckley: Did you know that on visited by Santa Christmas Eve 1803, Dec. overnight! http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- convict William Buckley history/colonial- escaped from Sullivan Bay melbourne/convicts/william-buckleys- settlement near Sorrento, escape travelled by foot along Port
http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- Phillip Bay and then lived history/colonial- with the Wathaurong melbourne/convicts/buckley-and- People for 32 years before aborigines returning to colonial settlements? https://shop.abc.net.au/products/william- buckley-dvd
Image from The Extraordinary Tale of William Buckley. Available on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/The-Extraordinary-Tale-William-Buckley/dp/B00YK86ZPW
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