There is a wealth of information on Indigenous Australia from both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous sources. These provide information covering multiple areas.

This page provides information on Indigenous Language/Tribal Areas, Sport, sporting involvement and individual sporting high achievers.

A First Page provides information on The Arts & individual artists and Indigenous beliefs & culture.

A Third Page covers community information, government involvement, health, legal matters and reports/research over several decades.

A Fourth Page covers documents & texts, general information sites, current involvements, Indigenous media and information on reconciliation.

Each of these pages can also be reached using the numbered boxes above.

Indigenous History and Famous Indigenous Australians will be found using these links. For information regarding Indigenous Education, both for and about Indigenous people, use this link or the one in the main menu.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following may contain images and voices of deceased persons.

Language/Tribal Areas

Languages, Aboriginal

Specific information, links, about diverse Aboriginal languages. For additional material, visit the Indigenous Languages page.

• Aboriginal English
  ‘Aboriginal English is the name given to the various kinds of English spoken by Aboriginal people throughout Australia’.. Background, history, vocabulary, sounds, grammatical features, pragmatics, resources.
• Aboriginal Languages of Australia
  Annotated links to 180 resources for about 60 languages. A sample page is the one covering Languages beginning with A. Each has an annotated link.
• Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive
  ‘Computer-based [digital] materials about Australian Indigenous languages’.
• Collectors of Words
  ‘Indigenous words lists compiled by Robert Brough Smyth and Edward Micklethwaite Curr. An online exhibition by AIATSIS Library’.
• FATSILC
  ‘The national body for community based Indigenous language programs in Australia’. Languages, guides to community protocols, research, newsletter, more. Download their Indigenous Languages Petition here.
• Holding Our Tongues
  ABC Radio National. ‘Holding our Tongues is a Hindsight project about the long and painful task of reviving Aboriginal languages. Click on the place names on the map to listen to examples of language, watch archival video or find more information’.
• Indigenous Language Map
  Use this link to access a map of the major tribal/language groups in Indigenous Australia. Click on individual sections to zoom in on that area.
• Jiwarli
  The Jiwarli language and its background.
• Kamilaroi - Gamilaraay Dictionary
  Dictionary, thesaurus.
• Language Maintenance
  ‘Projects relating to language maintenance are listed. Links to further information are given where available’.
• Languages of Australia
  Languages including Aboriginal languages. These indicate title, culture, spread, levels of literacy, geographical spread, more.
• Language of the Month
  Archived material from FATSIL.
• Languages of the Australian Aborigines
  L.E. Threlkeld 1858. Copy of the original document.
• Ngapartji Ngapartji
  ‘Sample a short language course in Pitjantjatjara’ and short pieces of a performance work. Also try Ninti Ngapartji for information.
• Master-Apprentice Training [RNLD]
  ‘RNLD will auspice two 3-day workshops to train thirty-eight Indigenous trainers from thirty language groups across Australia in the Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program [MALLP] method. This project is a Strategic Initiative funded under the Indigenous Languages Support scheme’. Done in March 2012. Find details here.
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map
  Provides a map showing the languages and has accompanying resources for use with this.
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Centre
  ‘Plays a key role in the preservation and revival of Aboriginal languages in the state’. Multiple sections of information related to language in the community, schools, Aboriginal languages in general, usage area map, more.
• Tribal & Language Database
  ‘On-line database on Australian Aboriginal tribes, nations, languages, dialectal groups’. Multiple search methods.
• Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
  ‘Responsible for coordinating Community Language Programs throughout Victoria. Focused on retrieving, recording, researching Aboriginal languages and providing a central resource on Victorian Aboriginal Languages with programs now looking at educational tools to teach the Indigenous community about language’.
• Western Australian Aboriginal Languages
  Handbook of Languages from south of the Kimberleys.
• Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre
  ‘By working under the direction of Pilbara elders, we will use our expertise, knowledge and sensitivity to record and foster Aboriginal languages, culture and history’. Check the page[s] on Languages plus information on history and culture.
• Yuwaalaraay gaay Gamilaraay garay
  ‘Yaama! Welcome to the Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay home page, the central site for information about the Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay languages of northern New South Wales, Australia. On this site you’ll find language learning lessons, information on pronunciation, and in the Guwaabal section there are twelve stories in Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay with transcriptions, English translations and background notes - a great resource for on-line language learning’. You can also go to Gayarragi, Winangali ‘an interactive multimedia resource for Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay. Gayarragi, Winangali is free for use by individuals and Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay organisations’.

Tribal Areas

In some cases these also include language groups, clans, … .

• Australian Aboriginals - Tribal Boundaries
  Interactive map. SA Museum.
• Australian Aboriginal Tribes
  ‘Recorded information on most Australian indigenous tribal groups is very limited. The following list is only to be regarded as introductory. For more specific information consult the sources listed’.
• Indigenous Peoples of Australia
  General Introduction, listings for each state and territory. Not a total listing but a reasonable start. There is a direct link to a List of Indigenous Australian group names which provide name, alternative name[s], geographical area, AIATSIS Region. From Wikipedia.
• Maps
  ‘6 maps of Aboriginal Australia. They are designed for print and electronic display’. Includes Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• MAP, Tribal
  Map of the major tribal/language groups in Aboriginal Australia.

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Sport

General Information

Links to Indigenous sporting information.

• Aboriginal Football
  ‘A site dedicated to celebrating the enormous contribution Indigenous Australians have made to the game of Australian rules football - Australia’s home-grown football game’.
• Aborigines in Sport
  This is a file, created in 1987 by Colin Tatz. See later reference to his work.
• ATSIC Sports Awards
  Archived page lists awards and winners from 1986 to 2003.
• Australian Sports Commission
  Programs - Indigenous Sport - Traditional Games. Traditional games for children.
• Indigenous Sporting Events, Results and Stars
  ‘From the boxing and sprinting legends of the 19th century to the AFL and NRL stars of today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have excelled in the sporting arena throughout history. This category looks at some of the memorable moments and outstanding achievers in Indigenous sport. Please be advised that this section of the site contains names and images of people who are now deceased.’
• National Indigenous Sport Development Program
  ‘The Australian Sports Commission, through the National Indigenous Sporting Development Program, provides funding to 16 National Sporting Organisations to coordinate and delivery mainstream sport participation and development programs that directly engage Indigenous communities’.
• Our Sporting Heritage
  Aboriginal heritage in sport. Heritage NSW.
• Sport and Racism
  ‘Tatz catalogues the long history of poverty, adversity and racism that has dogged Aborigines in sport. Their Third World status is not just a historical episode from the bad old unenlightened days, either’. Review of a 1995 book on the subject by Colin Tatz - Obstacle Race : Aborigines in Sport.

Individual Athletes

• Beetson, Arthur
  Rugby League Player, “Immortal” of the game, Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame, 2003.
• Dodd, Travis
  Football player.
• Ella, Mark
  Rugby player, one of three brothers to represent Australia.
• Freeman, Cathy
  Olympic Athlete, Gold Medallist.
• Goodes, Adam
  Australian Rules player, Brownlow Medallist.
• Goolagong Cawley, Evonne [Fay]
  Aboriginal tennis star.
• Johnson, Patrick
  Athlete, sprinter, fastest Australian over 100m. Get this Speaking Out - In Conversation with Patrick Johnson - 100m and 200m Olympic Sprinter audio interview here.
• Long, Michael
  Australian Rules player, Australian Football Hall of Fame 2007.
• North, Jade
  Football player.
• Peris, Nova
  ‘Australian Olympic Athlete, Indigenous advocate’.
• Perkins, Charles
  Football [soccer] player, activist.
• Rose, Lionel
  First Indigenous World Champion boxer, Australian of the Year 1968.
• Williams, Harry
  Football player, World Cup representative.
• Winmar, Nicky
  Australian Rules Footballer.

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