Rivers to Recognition

RIVERS TO RECOGNITION

Resource Directory

A guide to resources about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and people in Melbourne’s western region, Victoria and Australia About the Resource Directory This directory was developed as part of the Rivers to Recognition project, a collaboration between Melbourne’s western region councils. The Koorie Engagement Support team from the Department of Education & Training, South Western Victoria Region, was also consulted and provided input. The directory is designed to be used by people interested to learn more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culture and history in Melbourne, Victoria and Australia. The directory isn’t a definitive resource and is a starting point only. We encourage people to continue their research and get involved in community events and activities. The resource has been divided into geographical areas and/or themes including Australia, Victoria, Melbourne’s western region and recognition.

About the Rivers to Recognition project Rivers to Recognition is a collaboration of the Western Region Local Government Reconciliation Network (WRLGRN) which comprises council officers from Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melton, Moonee Valley and Wyndham City councils in partnership with Reconciliation Victoria. Other consultative partners include GetUp OutWest and the Local Indigenous Network (LIN). Rivers to Recognition is a partnership to promote conversations about the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the First Australians. The project was launched in December 2014 with a high profile free music concert and community market in Williamstown and continued through 2015 with forums in Footscray, Moonee Ponds, Altona, Melton and Sunshine. The resource directory is one of the Rivers to Recognition project initiatives.

Acknowledgements The WRLGRN would like to acknowledge the support of Reconciliation Victoria in developing this resource directory. The directory will be located on Reconciliation Victoria’s website: www.reconciliationvic.org.au and updated annually.

Version 1 – 2015

Disclaimer: every effort has been made to ensure the resources are presented accurately. Any errors are unintentional. In compiling this resource, the collaborators have sought to represent the variety of resources that are available. The materials represents a range of views and sources. Readers are responsible to conduct their own research to verify content and form interpretations. The compilers of this Directory accepts no responsibility for the content of the materials contained herein.

Australia

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

General resources including Aboriginal culture, movies, books and articles

Creative Spirits Browse a vast collection of books, www.creativespirits.info movies and music, Aboriginal authors, filmmakers and musicians.

The world's most comprehensive collection of print, moving image, sound recordings and photograph materials relating to Australian Australian Institute Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories. of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Published print collections have www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/exhib Islander Studies been digitised and archived to itions.html (AIATSIS) provide online access. These may serve as research or study guides for students. Reading lists are other resources are provided for further research.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from across the country provide input and Share our Pride feedback about cultural diversity, www.shareourpride.org.au (Reconciliation identity, harmful myths, history Australia) and respectful relationships Provides a wide range of resources, including films.

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

Black Screen promotes cultural awareness and Indigenous screen culture, provides entertainment to communities and brings them together in discussion.

Includes DVDs of contemporary Indigenous Australian films

available to individuals and Black Screen organisations for use at screening http://www.nfsa.gov.au/blackscreen/ National Film & events, festivals and community Sound Archive celebrations. The collection includes short film and Promoting cultural documentaries by renowned awareness by filmmakers such as Warwick providing Indigenous Thornton, Ivan Sen, Wayne Blair, communities and Adrian Wills and Beck Cole. the broader Other resources: Australian public with free access to The Black List – a comprehensive Indigenous films. list of film and TV projects with Indigenous Australians in key creative roles. Pathways & Protocols – a filmmaker’s guide to working with Indigenous people, culture and concepts. Dreaming in Motion – an e-book celebrating Australia’s Indigenous filmmakers (2007).

The resources presents a selection of games and activities that are played in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies. The Yulunga – resource was developed to Traditional encourage all Australians to Indigenous Games understand and appreciate (Australian Sports Indigenous culture. Commission) The resource was primarily developed as a contribution http://www.ausport.gov.au/__data/ towards the implementation of assets/pdf_file/0011/376139/SP_318 Indigenous Australian 64_TIG_resource_K-3.pdf perspectives across the education

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

curriculum, from Kindergarten to Year 12 (K –12). It is recommended that local elders are consulted and invited to be involved in some way prior to undertaking any unit of work or special event.

Artworks, stories, photographs, Tradition and maps and videos, as well as Transformation - classroom activities and teacher Indigenous Art in resources. the NGV Collection http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ngvscho The education unit Identity A collaborative ols/TraditionAndTransformation/ informs students about matters of project, involving cultural identity, diversity, respect the National Gallery and the use of symbols as a of Victoria, the powerful visual language. DEECD and Multimedia Victoria. Identity may be conducted in a sequence during a term or over a This website helps semester. The four topics: teachers and Exploring identity, Symbols, students use new Colour line and shape and technologies to Personal portraits reference explore, understand, specific artists, art works with film teach and learn clips, interviews and information about Indigenous relating to their country and art. Dreaming. Schools Resources includes a number of education packs, ideas for classrooms and schools.

Topics include: http://www.reconciliationsa.org.au/f - Citizenship: let’s talk Reconciliation South or-schools recognition Australia - 55,000 years and counting: celebrating our shared history - The Stolen Generations - The 1967 referendum - Forgotten Heroes

Victoria

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

Resources include: a) Welcome to Country and

Acknowledgement of Country

- A Guide for Victorian Schools http://www.education.vic.gov.au /school/teachers/teachingresour b) Coranderrk – Minutes of ces/diversity/Pages/wanniklearni Evidence project Koorie Learning ng.aspx Resources A Teacher Resource Package (TRP) to support delivery of Department of AusVELS Years 9-10 History a) http://www.education.vic.gov.au/ Education and and Civics and Citizenship Documents/school/teachers/teac Training (DET) curriculum modules. It will hingresources/diversity/welcome An overview of links provide country.pdf

to collaborative - curriculum-aligned digital education projects, resources based on the programs and 1881 Inquiry and the b) http://www.minutesofevidence.c resources for related histories of local om.au/education/ Victorian schools. communities and wider Victoria. - links to themes arising from the Coranderrk story such as indigenous and non-indigenous collaboration, justice, land rights, activism and multiculturalism.

Information and links about: Aboriginal setting up a school language Languages and program Cultures Victoria background information on

language reclamation http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/pages A website developed the AusVELS Aboriginal to support the /alcv/about.aspx Languages, cultures and teaching of reclamation in Victorian Aboriginal schools Languages in Victorian schools. standards P-10 and protocols

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview a collection of resources and links sample units to assist language teams in the development of their lessons

The Second Step kit is for teachers at any level. It Connecting Home provides detailed

An agency that is background information, funded to support links to resources, people who identify suggestions for activities, as being effected by student outcomes, photos, http://www.connectinghome.org.a the Stolen stories, poems and more. u/resources/cid/28/parent/0/pid/2 Generations. equips teachers with the knowledge, understanding 8/t/careers/title/second-step- Provides education education-kit resources for and resources to teach the schools, community Victorian history of the agencies and Stolen Generations in government bodies Victorian schools. about the ongoing To order a hard copy or to invite a issues and needs. member of the Stolen Generations to visit your school, contact (03) 8679 0777. Offers a range of programs and services including: - the only public collection in Victoria dedicated solely to Koorie art and culture Koorie Heritage comprising artefacts, Trust pictures and photographs

- an Oral History Program “give me your hand, my - a Reference Library friend” - cross cultural awareness http://www.koorieheritagetrust.co training and tours m/ - exhibitions - a Koorie Family History Service - a retail shop.

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

Victorian Aboriginal Short video about the Victorian Population: A Aboriginal population highlighting snapshot the diversity of the population (Department of and that Aboriginal Victorians Health, Victoria) exceed in all areas of endeavour including sport, the arts and www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayR_C business. Highlights that, despite 6_CKM&feature=youtu.be this vibrancy, Aboriginal Victorians experience poorer health outcomes than non- Aboriginal Victorians in almost every measure of health.

Resources for schools, churches and communities including Reconciliation

Victoria a Reconciliation Timeline and activities calendar

a Constitutional Recognition http://www.reconciliationvic.org.au resource hub to build / awareness and http://www.reconciliationvic.org.au understanding about what is /pages/publications-and- proposed through providing resources.php information and facilitating opportunities for discussion across Victoria.

Museum Victoria First Peoples: A permanent exhibition that is a shared Bunjilaka Aboriginal endeavour of Museum Victoria Culture Centre and the Victorian Aboriginal Exhibitions, activities community. for all ages and Wominjeka (Welcome): programs suitable Introduces the many Countries for all levels from diverse languages of Victorian preschool to adult Aboriginal people. education. Generations: A dynamic and For regular updates interactive celebration of about education contemporary Koorie identity Bunjilaka programs, special that features stories from http://museumvictoria.com.au/bunjil previews and many yesterday and today, and for aka/education/ other benefits, the future through a vibrant subscribe to and poignant collection of First Peoples exhibition MVteachers and historical and contemporary photographs.

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview keep an eye on the Many Nations: Hands-on http://museumvictoria.com.au/bun Bunjilaka website. activities and animations to jilaka/visiting/first-peoples/ learn about the diverse cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. Our Story: Chronicles the histories and cultures of Victoria's first peoples, from Creation to the present day, with stories of ceremony, customs, Law and resilience, before and after the arrival of Europeans.

Office of Aboriginal Provides a range of resources Affairs Victoria including an Aboriginal Cultural (OAAV) Heritage mini- poster series. OAAV works in partnership with

Aboriginal communities, and http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.p government hp/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal- departments and affairs-overview agencies to promote knowledge, leadership and understanding about Victoria's Aboriginal people.

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview The VAEAI Koorie Education Calendar has been developed to assist educators and learners in focusing on, and locating http://www.vaeai.org.au/_uploads/_ information about Victorian ckpg/files/VAEAI%20Koorie%20Educ Koorie cultures, histories and ation%20Calendar%202015%20%201 perspectives. 71214.pdf Victorian Aboriginal Education Framed around significant dates Association Inc and events throughout the A number of other resources also calendar year, the VAEAI Koorie available: Education Calendar draws the http://www.vaeai.org.au/support/ds learner to Victorian Koorie voices, p-default.cfm?loadref=126 stories, achievements, leadership and connections, and suggests a range of activities and resources around these dates.

Western region of Melbourne

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

Bonmarart Leewik Produced by a team of academic (Strong Ancestors) staff from Victoria University, including the Moondani Balluk Victoria University ('embrace people') Academic Unit.

A Your Community Brings together a range of www.bonmarartleewik.net/ Heritage project resources concerning significant funded by the Aboriginal places, people and Department of the events in Melbourne's Western Environment. region.

Iramoo was the Woiwurrung language name given by first

inhabitants of the region, the Kulin Iramoo @ VU Nations, to the great grassy plains Keeping alive the that once encircled what is now http://www.iramoo.org.au/educa story of the St Melbourne. Iramoo also meant a tion/school-education-programs Albans land meeting place between tribes. Education @ Iramoo Community and School programs involving visits to the Sustainability Centre and Grasslands Reserve

Still Here exhibition An exhibition (1996) that tells the Living Museum of story of how Aboriginal people the West have always lived and worked in

Documenting and Melbourne's West and are Still Here . http://www.livingmuseum.org.au preserving the /exhibitions/still_here/still_here_i stories and the Topics include: local ancestors ; ntro.html images of the people invasion ; racism ; and places of assimilation ; political movements ; Melbourne's West advancement ; since 1984 stolen generations ; home and work ; education ; entertainers; heritage; reading list and links

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

Yarra Healing Catholic Education Melbourne Aims to promote the website with a range of audio- voices of local visual materials. Indigenous people of a) Kulin Nation - an introduction Melbourne and its to the Kulin nation and to surrounding areas. It each of the five key Kulin gives expression to language groups. Overview of website: their stories and to b) Stories and Voices - Koorie http://www.yarrahealing.catholic. the growth of the people telling their family edu.au/vision- Reconciliation histories and community process/index.cfm?loadref=4 movement not only histories. Invites reflection Celebrations: in Melbourne but about Reconciliation. http://www.yarrahealing.catholic across the nation. c) Teaching and Learning - .edu.au/ curriculum support materials celebrations/index.cfm?loadref= at 18 http://www.yarrahealing.cath Lore of the Land olic.edu.au/teaching- http://www.loreoftheland.com.au learning/index_wide.cfm?load / ref=14 d) Education Centres - information about agencies that enrich and extend programs in Koorie Studies. e) Indigenous Organisations - a directory of key national, state and local Indigenous organisations and affiliated agencies. that offer a wide range of services and may provide resource support. f) Access to the award- winning educational resource Lore of the Land .

Local Government resources in Melbourne’s West

Council name Description of resource Source – where to get resource

Brimbank City Council Brimbank Brimbank a) A history and culture page a) http://www.brimbank.vic.go includes information v.au/COUNCIL/About_Brimb about Brimbank Park, its ank/History

Information Centre and b) http://www.yarrahealing.cat Aboriginal cultural holic.edu.au/_uploads/fckpg heritage display. /files/Unit6-Sacred-Land.pdf

b) Bullum Bullum Aboriginal Place, Burnside, is highly valued as a place of strong association with country.

Artefacts at the site are remnants of thousands of years of camping, movement and activity.

Bullum Bullum means 'white butterfly' and represents freedom of

expression. See Unit 6 Sacred Land ( Level 4 VELS, Years 5-6)

Hobsons Bay City Hobsons Bay Hobsons Bay Council a) The Yalukit Wilum – The a) http://www.hobsonsbay.vic. First People of Hobsons Bay gov.au/files/6a37d089-4468- Booklet 45bc-a8fd- b) Boon Wurrung Ngargee – a2dd00a61c6e/Yalukit_Willa Program to facilitate m_booklet.pdf creative participation in b) http://www.hobsonsbay.vic. understanding Boon gov.au/Arts_Leisure/Arts/Ab Wurrung culture. original_Culture.

Maribyrnong City Maribyrnong Maribyrnong Council - Maribyrnong River a) http://www.maribyrnong.vic Heritage Trail booklet .gov.au/Page/Page.aspx?Pag e_Id=5305 b) http://www.maribyrnong.vic .gov.au/Files/Maribyrnong_R iver_Heritage_Booklet.pdf

Council name Description of resource Source – where to get resource

City of Melton City of Melton City of Melton - Student Kit about Melton www.melton.vic.gov.au/files/2642 a2b2…/VIC_Student_Kit_2014.pdf History and Culture. - Bullum Bullum Aboriginal Place, Burnside

City of Moonee Valley Moonee Valley includes links to Moonee Valley Wurundjeri Willam: The Original http://www.mvcc.vic.gov.au/about Inhabitants of Moonee Valley -the-council/demographics-and- booklet history/local-history.aspx

Wyndham City Council Wyndham Wyndham The book, “Wyndham: Our Story” http://www.wyndhamhistory.net.a (2014) is complemented by an u/items/show/1528 interactive website which showcases the stories of people, places and objects of historical significance. Features photographs, oral histories, an interactive timeline and online classroom. Residents and community groups can add content, including stories and photographs. An interactive Wyndham map will display the location of historical sites and artefacts of interest.” Visit www.wyndham.vic.gov.au to order either the hardback or paperback edition of the book.

Political history and campaigns

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

Australian Range of information & links to Government stories and resources to website understand Indigenous arts, culture and heritage, as well as http://australia.gov.au/about- background to National Apology australia/australian-story/sorry-day- and Reconciliation issues. stolen-generations Narragunnawali: Program to support early Reconciliation in childhood, primary and secondary Schools schools in Australia to develop environments that foster a higher

level of knowledge and pride in Reconciliation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Australia Islander histories, cultures and contributions.

Participating schools will be http://www.reconciliation.org.au/sc assisted to find meaningful ways hools/ to increase respect; reduce prejudice; and strengthen http://www.reconciliation.org.au/cat relationships between the wider egory/resource/ Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Constitutional Recognition

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

Australians for People. ANTaR coordinates a major national community Native Title & education and awareness Reconciliation campaign on native title, (ANTaR) reconciliation and other issues. Independent, national network of Resources include teaching kits, mainly non- factsheets, links to speeches and http://antar.org.au/campaigns/cons Indigenous activity guides. organisations and titutional-recognition individuals working in support of justice for Aboriginal and Teaching resource on Constitutional Torres Strait Islander Recognition: peoples in Australia.. http://antar.org.au/resources/teachi ANTaR is a peoples’ ng-resources movement, committed to the rights and perspectives of Indigenous peoples to determine their own future with the support of the Australian

ANTaR Victoria ANTaR Victoria activities include: Australians for Education – on local and state Native Title and levels throughout the Reconciliation community

Victoria , focusses on Treaty campaign – non- activities and issues indigenous community http://www.antarvictoria.org.au/ specific to Victoria, education on the need for a while also formal negotiation process supporting national campaigns and Stolen Generations and Sorry priorities. ANTaR Day Victoria operates at Public speaking – speakers to a grassroots level come and address groups. with a network of local groups Sea of Hands – installations at facilitating their own community events

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview reconciliation initiatives.

RECOGNISE School Learning Guide, for use by Campaign teachers and students in class discussions and in student leadership activities. - Reconciliation Australia

http://www.recognise.org.au/get- involved/schools-kit

National Museum Collaborating for Indigenous of Australia Rights 1957–1973 The 15 years from the late 1950s to the early 1970s was a time of unusual collaboration between black and white activists in Australia. Alliances were formed between Aboriginal Australians motivated to help their people and white Australians wanting to redress the injustices suffered by dispossessed peoples in the building of the Australian state. http://indigenousrights.net.au/home This site tells their stories.

The Fights for Civil Rights tells of the campaigns to include Indigenous Australians as members of Australian society with rights to vote and rights to benefits such as the old age http://indigenousrights.net.au/resou pension. rces/teachers_resources The Struggle for Land Rights documents the concurrent campaigns to develop and disseminate an argument - moral, legal and economic - for an Indigenous right to land at a time when mining companies and governments were working

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview together to develop mines in Aboriginal reserves. Explore the map ... all of the histories on this site are mapped in Google Maps. Two inquiry-learning units of work to help students interrogate and make sense of the wealth of primary source material that can be found on the Collaborating for Indigenous Rights website. Both units have a strong investigative focus: • the first looks specifically at the 1967 Referendum and asks students to explore its significance • the second explores the changing nature of Indigenous rights and freedoms during the period 1957-1975.

The Victorian Each year, the Victorian Aboriginal Honour Aboriginal Honour Roll formally Roll acknowledges and celebrates the The Office of wide-ranging achievements of Aboriginal Affairs Aboriginal and Torres Strait Victoria (OAAV) - Islander Victorians. Read the biographies of the well-known Department of http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.ph Premier and Cabinet figures and quiet achievers inducted into the Honour Roll. p/aboriginal-affairs/projects-and- programs/leadership/victorian- indigenous-honour-roll

Name, organisation Description of resource Source – where to get resource and overview

Mission Voices The website can be navigated by Sharing in the Mission/Reserve or by a Theme, unique culture and and contains an Elder Index, a history of Victorian timeline and educational tools. Aboriginal (Koorie) The educational tools are people. designed to promote thought, response and activity about the role in which Aboriginal Missions and Reserves shaped the lives of Victorians - past and present. The

activities are for students in the middle (years 5-8) and senior http://www.abc.net.au/missionvoice (years 9-12) years of schooling. s/default.htm The Educational notes are based on outcomes from the Victorian Curriculum Standards Framework II and the Victorian Certificate of Education.

ABC Indigenous Portal for all ABC news, radio, http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/ television, arts and online programming by and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Aboriginal Studies Extensive catalogue of websites http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL- WWW Virtual and online resources. Aboriginal.html Library Maintained in conjunction with the Center For World Indigenous An Internet Guide Studies' (CWIS) Indigenous to Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library . Studies