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AusAnthrop: Anthropology and Aboriginal Australia
"This site is dedicated to research and resources in anthropology, for academics as well as the layman. Special accent is on Aboriginal Australia, and more specifically on the Western Desert cultural bloc. However, other resources are, and future resources will be, of interest to a wider public, whether anthropologists or not."

• Database on Tribes and Languages
  "...is an on-line database on Australian Aboriginal tribes, nations, languages, and dialectal groups. It is a reference database that should help to find a tribe or language from the many alternative names and spellings used in the literature. The database contains alternative names, some places of location, bibliogrpahic references, a links to archival files at the South Australian Museum, linguistic classifications such as those by the SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) and the AIATSIS (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), as well as the name given in EAA (Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia)."
• Western Desert Project
  "...is a sub directory of the AusAnthrop web site. It describes the methods, means and results of an ongoing project on land tenure and kinship of the Aborigines of the Western Desert of Australia. The aim is to analyse contemporary social structure among these 40 and more dialectal groups, as well as to investigate historical transformations."

Australian Aboriginal Writers - (dead link)

Australian Museum

• Indigenous Australia - (dead link)
  • Stories of the Dreaming
    "This section features 20 stories from the cultures of Indigenous Australians, collected from all over Australia. They reflect an essential part of the life of Indigenous Australians."

Blinding the Duck
Aboriginal Representation, Censorship and Restriction On-line.
A condensed version of this paper was presented at the Conference: Cultural Crossroads - Access and Identity in Sydney 26th November 1997.
"This essay explores some of the complex issues arising from the use of digital images of Aboriginal people and material in The Flight of Ducks."
By Simon Pockley

Indigenous Peoples' Education Rights in Australia - (dead link)
Paper presented to the Indigenous Rights, Political Theory and the Reshaping of Institutions Conference, ANU, August, 1997.
Donna Ah Chee, Jack Beetson & Bob Boughton

Native Title Act 1993
Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

Norman B. Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
"This is the full catalogue of Aboriginal language groups, described by Tindale as 'tribes', as published by him in his 1974 book Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names."

OneWorld Magazine- Australian Aboriginal Art

South Australian Museum

• Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery
  "Through the millennia Aboriginal people have developed a unique way of life: creative, innovative and adaptable to the diverse circumstances of the tremendously variable Australian environment. The South Australian Museumís collections tell the story of this way of life and its achievements."
• The Big Canvas - painting Cockatoo Creek
  "At Cockatoo Creek in 1931, anthropologists from this Museum and the University of Adelaide met Warlpiri and Anmatyerre people for the first time. This painting commemorates that meeting."
• Ngurunderi - An Aboriginal Dreaming
  "This exhibition describes the culture of the Ngarrindjeri people of the Lower Murray River and Coorong areas of South Australia. Their environment was rich with animals, plants and aquatic resources and the Ngarrindjeri groups were consequently less nomadic than Aborigines of the inland. A wide range of material culture items - wooden artefacts and basketry in particular - reflected this more sedentary lifestyle."

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Staff Presentations and Papers on Indigenous Culture
- National Library of Australia

Strategies for Building an Indigenous Australian Cybercommunity- The KooriNet Project - (dead link)
Paper presented at the 1997 Fulbright Symposium: Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World, July 24-27, Darwin.
John Hobson, Koori Centre, University of Sydney

University of Newcastle, Callaghan

• Awaba
  "...an electronic database and guide to the history, culture and language of the Indigenous peoples of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of NSW...From this site you can access over 100 documents and materials about the Awabakal people and language. It also provides a thematic guide to these materials, with contributions prepared by various locally-based scholars, writers and community leaders."
  Sections include: Bibliography ; Culture ; History ; Images ; Language ; People ; Plances.

The Wellington Valley Project - (dead link) The Letters and Journals Relating to the Church Missionary Society Missions to Wellington Valley New South Wales, 1830-40.
A Critical Electronic Edition.
"They are particularly significant for the account they provide of Wiradjuri society before the destruction of full ceremonial life. This alone would be justification for their publication in full, in both electronic and, it is anticipated, printed formats. Collectively, the Wellington Valley papers provide a wealth of information about the missionaries and their troubled encounter with a people staggering under the impact of European occupation."
Edited by Hilary M Carey and David A. Roberts

Where Are All the Aboriginal Home Pages: The Current Indigenous Australian Presence on the WWW - (dead link)
Paper presented at the Fifth International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference, 1-4 October 1997, Alice Springs.
John Hobson, Koori Centre, University of Sydney

'White Australia has a Black History'
Sources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in the National Library of Australia
By John Thompson