I Want to Dance (eBook)
An enjoyable story about what is needed to sing, dance and play at an Aboriginal corroboree. This story has simplified repetitive text for the early reader.
An enjoyable story about what is needed to sing, dance and play at an Aboriginal corroboree. This story has simplified repetitive text for the early reader.
An informative eBook using descriptive language to explain the different types Aboriginal art and the natural materials they were made from.
A bright and visual information eBook written for early learners that introduces how traditional Aboriginal Australians led a sustainable existence.
A descriptive verse using the outback Australian landscape and animals to help predict when it will rain. It features animated images with sounds associated to text.
A informative poem using descriptive language to explain the different Aboriginal tools, how they were used and the natural materials they were made from.
This video is part of ‘Retold’, a digital stories series presented by the State Library of Queensland. Stories of the Torres Strait are retold as recorded in Margaret Lawrie’s book Myths and Legends of Torres Strait.
This video is part of ‘Picture This’, a digital stories series presented by the State Library of Queensland. The videos were developed from artworks created by children and re-tell traditional Torres Strait stories from Margaret Lawrie’s Tales from Torres Strait.
This video celebrates 18 years since the Mabo High Court Determination that paved the way toward Native Title in Australia.
In this video, Joey Tapau (Torres Strait, Murray Island, and Aboriginal, Kuku Yalanji Tribe), Luke Captain (Meriam people of Mer, Murray Island) and Taie Daye (Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander) sing a blessing song for the start of MediaTribe USA Australia, and its American crew, at the Kurbingui Youth Development Center in Brisbane, Australia. Copyright 2010 Rebekah West. www.rebekahwest.com
In this video, Torres Strait Islanders perform a traditional dance during the tombstone unveiling of the Late Reverend Father Johnathan Gagai.