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Koorie Education Calendar 2020 . 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 LAECG is a good first point of school environment for Koorie contact and VAEAI can assist Today VAEAI continues to represent the Victorian Koorie Community in Explore the VAEAI website , community members, and working with contacts. Try to work relation to education policy development and strategic programming at subscribe for newsletters and respectfully with the Koorie with local community local, state and national levels. follow us on Facebook. community to enrich school people and Elders, and curricula. always respect their VAEAI supports the provision of education and training that reinforces the VAEAI website: intellectual and cultural Koorie community’s cultural identity, and increases awareness in the wider http://www.vaeai.org.au/ Protocols for schools: property rights. community of Koorie cultures, histories and aspirations in education and CLICK HERE training. 26 Survival Day A day off, a barbecue and Did you know that the The 26th of January aka Australia Day, Survival Day, Invasion Day, fireworks? A celebration of who we ONLINE RESOURCES 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 in full champion boxer Lionel Rose Australians alike. For the first Australians the day essentially marks the survival? Australians hold many was the first Aboriginal survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their cultures. different views on what the 26th of 1st National Day of Mourning: person to be named For non-Indigenous Australians it marks the landing of the First Fleet, a National Day of January means to them. https://aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/day- Australian of the Year back group of eleven ships from Britain that landed on the shores of Botany Bay Mourning, 1938 mourning-26th-january-1938 in 1968? where the clash of two cultures and the fight for one land began. In 2017 a number of councils controversially decided to no http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcul The first Day of Mourning was a protest held by Aboriginal Australians on longer celebrate Australia Day on ture/history/australia-day-invasion-day Aboriginal Tent 26 January 1938, the 150th anniversary of the British colonisation of this day, while ‘Change the Date’ is Embassy, est. 1972 https://www.naidoc.org.au/about/history Australia. From 1940 until 1955, the National Day of Mourning was held the slogan of a prominent annually on the Sunday before Australia Day and was known as Aborigines contemporary campaign and NACCHO communiqué & Change the Date dedicated website. Consider why campaign: Day. In 1955 Aborigines Day was shifted to the first Sunday in July after it there is continuing debate and http://nacchocommunique.com/2014/01/24/ was decided the day should become not simply a protest day but also a conflicting emotions about our naccho-aboriginal-health-and-january-26- celebration of Aboriginal culture and survival. debate-what-does-australia-day-mean-for- national day. For an Aboriginal our-mob/ perspective read the communiqué from the National Peak body of http://changethedate.org/ A weary eyed Lionel Rose clutches Aboriginal health organisations. his world title trophy after beating Lionel Rose: Alan Rudkin in Melbourne 1969 Research the first Day of Mourning, https://www.smh.com.au/sport/boxing/from CREDIT: SMH, STAFF involving Victorian Yorta Yorta -the-archives-lionel-rose-is-named-1969- PHOTOGRAPHER australian-of-the-year-20190118-p50s6x.html leaders William Cooper and Sir Doug Nichols and its connection to https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/hon NAIDOC week held later in July. our-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=68 The Australian of the Year Awards https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/hon our-roll/?view=search&query=indigenous occur annually on this date. How many Aboriginal Australians of the Year have there been? Who are they and where are they from? Koorie Education Calendar 2020 . FEBRUARY 4 Anniversary of the With older students watch the DVD Legacy of a People DVD Cummeragunja lies on the NSW side of Dhungala – the Murray River – on Cummeragunja The Legacy of a People about the http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/171001609?sel the traditional lands of the Bangerang and Yorta Yorta peoples. The river February Shepparton Koorie community and ectedversion=NBD50015642 Walk-off of 1939 is hugely important to the people and has sustained them for thousands Cummeragunja Reserve, and Cummeragunja Mission: of years. investigate the reasons for the https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/co Cummeragunja Walk-off of 1939 llections-and-research/guides-and- On the 4th February 1939, over 200 residents of the Cummeragunja indexes/stories/cummeragunja-walk-off (VAEAI has a limited number of Mission walked off the mission station in protest against conditions at the copies). http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 station, and crossed the Murray River into Victoria, leaving the state of 123- New South Wales. At the time, this was in contravention of rules set by the The now archived Mission Voices 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cumme New South Wales Aboriginal Protection Board restricting the movement of website developed by the Koorie ragunja/default.html Aboriginal people. Many settled in Barmah, Echuca, Shepparton, Heritage Trust is a great multimedia Image from The Bunyip of http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 Mooroopna and Melbourne’s Fitzroy. The Cummeragunja Walk Off has resource. Listen to the late Berkeley's Creek Written by Jenny 123- been described as the first ever mass strike of Aboriginal people in Bangerang Elder Uncle Sandy Wagner and illustrated by Ron Atkinson and others from 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cumme Brooks First edition: Longman Australia and brought about changes to the Aborigines Protection Act of ragunja/voices_of_cummerangunja/default.h Young Books, Melbourne, 1973. NSW. Cummeragunja discuss life in the tml day, belonging and connection to place. ‘Real Player’ free software http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 may need to be downloaded’. 123- Did you know that the 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cumme legendary Bunyip is said to With younger students (years 5-8) ragunja/voices_of_cummerangunja/uncle_sa get its name from the ndy_atkinson/uncle_sandy_talks_of_conserv Wemba Wemba and explore the Voices of ation_practices_/default.html Cummerangunja links and read or Wergaia languages of the Pecan Summer is listen to the late Uncle Sandy Pecan Summer opera: Murray River Region? Australia’s first Indigenous Atkinson talk about conservation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txDrTC opera, written by Yorta practices. What evidence is there uaaM Numerous tales of the bunyip that people lived in harmony with in written literature appeared Yorta soprano, Deborah https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/8 Cheetham AO. The opera their land? Provide at least one 60269123626/Pecan-Summer-The-Opera in the 19th and early 20th specific example of their centuries. One of the earliest is based on the events conservation practices. (‘Real https://www.google.com.au/search?q=pecan known is a story in Andrew surrounding the walk-off Player free software may need to be +summer+youtube&dcr=0&source=lnms&tb Lang's ‘The Brown Fairy Book’ from Cummeragunja m=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD8pL14urYAhU downloaded’). (1904). mission in 1939. DU7wKHaQ7DG4Q_AUICigB&biw=1222&bih= 721 With students research the opera Pecan Summer brings Pecan Summer by Yorta Yorta http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/abo together the largest composer Deborah Cheetham AO – ut-town/first-aboriginal-opera--pecan- ensemble of Indigenous summer-20120815-248s4.html the first opera written by an Significantly in 2016, rock art performers of any featuring four bunyips was Indigenous Australian and involving http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/abo professional production in rediscovered in a sandstone an Indigenous caste – based on the ut-town/pecan-summers-ray-of-sunshine- Australia. through-song-20120907-25jtm.html shelter in Victoria’s Gariwerd Cummeragunja Walk-off. A filmed region - or the Grampians as Book online at version of Pecan Summer is now they have been called since melbournerecital.com.au available through SBS On Demand colonisation. The Age for the 10th anniversary reported in 2019 that this find and a number of video clips and shines ‘new light on an age- gala performances of news reports have been uploaded old story – that of a cosmic Pecan Summer at the to Youtube. Explore the life of struggle between creator magnificent Melbourne Deborah Cheetham and her journey spirit and his monstrous Recital Centre on October to be an opera singer and author. enemy.’ 30 & 31, 2020. Koorie Education Calendar 2020 . Murray River focus: Murray River Resources: http://www.murrayriver.com.au/about-the- Focus learning activities around murray/murray-river-aboriginals/ Koorie peoples, languages and http://www.booktopia.com.au/murray-river- stories of the Murray River region, shane- such as the Bangerang Dreaming strudwick/prod9780733330896.html?clickid= zObUOfSm8Ta5x%3AhxMcV7hx3mUkQSqsU story * about the creation of M%3ATXWTE0&bk_source_id=75030&bk_so Dungala (Tongala), aka the Murray River, and the famous Bunyip story.