Indigenous Peoples: Australia

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Indigenous Peoples of Australia

Last updated: 22 August 2001

Why this page from a German citizen living in Australia? If I'd only knew. This is all the result of a magic development of the past years when I got involved in Indigenous Peoples in Australia and North America. Eventually, I felt I should set up a web-page about the beautiful people I worked with, and here's one on the Indigenous Peoples of Australia. Others deal with the Mi'kmaq and with Salish Kootenai and Pend d'Oreille.
Guess, this is my humble tribute to these Peoples who I owe the deepest respect and admiration. Thanks for the lessons you're teaching me - ldb.

This is a web-site on the Indigenous People of Australia, the traditional owners of the land, which we call "Australia". I would like to express my respect and gratitude to the Peoples for accepting me on their land.

I have tried to collect links which provide essential information on a variety of topics I am interested in. This site is by no means comprehensive in terms of covering each and every aspect of Indigenous People of Australia.

Re-Thinking Indigenous Self-Determination.
An International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Indigenous Self-Determination.
Brisbane, Qld. (Australia), 25-28 September 2001
hosted by the Centre for Democracy, University of Queensland

Indigenous Peoples and Racism.
Conference of Indigenous Peoples of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
20-22 February 2001, Sydney (Australia)
Regional Meeting for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

Final Report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation to the Prime Minister and the Commonwealth Parliament. December 2000
available online at:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/orgs/car/finalreport/

I have organized the site according to the following categories:

Arts

Culture

Education

Environment

Health

Media

Social development

Tribes

Women

Happy surfing.

A map of Indigenous Australia is available here as a JPG-file of roughly 60KB.

Here are some meta-sites which offer a wide range of links to resources on Indigenous Peoples of Australia.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Page - a huge site, probably the best available, highly recommended

Australian Government Directory: Indigenous Peoples - a meta-site offering access to organizations, corporations and group owned by and/or working with Indigenous Peoples

KooriNet - Indigenous Australian WWW Resource Directory, a project of the Koori Center at the University of Sydney

WWW Virtual Library: Australian Aboriginal Studies

Aboriginal Languages of Australia

LDB Web-Site Navigation Panel

Just click on the site you want to see.

Thanks to DK'small mercies for helping with web-design

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