Indigenous Australians

Websites

Loss of Aboriginal Languages - Creative Spirits Website

· Why are Aboriginal languages lost?

· What happens if a language is lost?

· How many Aboriginal languages existed before invasion?

Articles

Call to protect dying Indigenous languages - ABC article

New map records massacres of Aboriginal people in Frontier Wars - ABC article

Map starts to reveal true extent of massacres of Indigenous Australians by Europeans - SBS article

More articles about language

· Aboriginal language preservation & revival

· Aboriginal place names

· Aboriginal words in Australian English

· How many Aboriginal language speakers are left? (this one is especially good – with ‘song’ listing all the languages)

· Kriol & Yumplatok: Mixed languages

· Lack of Aboriginal language interpreters can cost lives

· Teaching Aboriginal languages at school

· Too little Aboriginal bilingual education

· Why translating English to Aboriginal languages is so hard

Colonial Frontier Massacres in Central and Eastern Australia 1788-1930 - The Centre for 21st Century Humanities (University of Newcastle)