Australian Indigenous Studies   Tags: aboriginal, australian, indigenous  

Monash University support for current and prospective indigenous students

Learning skills advisers assist students in improving their academic language and approaches to learning, including:

• academic English
• study methods and exam preparation
• effective listening and note-taking
• problem-solving and critical thinking
• reading strategies
• essay, report and thesis writing
• writing for research projects
• oral communication and presentation

Learning skills advisers:

• Darci Taylor(Matheson Library)
• Sebastian Borutta, Rachel Daniel (Gippsland Library)

Assignment writing

• Language and Learning Online essay writing guide
• Citing and referencing
• EndNote

The Library has much more than study books eg the Music and Multimedia collection has items relevant to your course - documentaries, films and music. The database TVNews has TV Broadcasts of all key news and  current affairs programs.

The Library is your portal to the information multiverse.

Australian Indigenous Studies is taught at Gippsland and Clayton campuses. Major areas of study include past and contemporary experiences of Australian Indigenous peoples. Units offered include the study of kinship and political systems in urban and remote societies, and the contrasts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies. Depending on your topic you may also need to refer to resources in these related pages.

Related guides: Anthropology; Art History; Holocaust and genocide studies; Politics; Sociology; Women's and gender studies

Librarians can help you with:

• how and where to start researching your topic
• effective use of databases and the internet
• finding and evaluating information
• using the Library's collections

Contact librarians:

• Susan Little (Matheson Library)
• Marion Slawson (Gippsland Library)

Library tutorials

• view and book classes online via the library class booking system
• browse online tutorials

Search Help: how to find library resources

Lake Condah Possum Skin Cloak, before 1872, (image courtesy of Museum Victoria, Indigenous collection)

Monash links

• Search - Library catalogue
• Informit Indigenous Studies Databases
• Learning skills advisers
• Anthropology Databases
• Monash Language & Learning online
• How to cite sources correctly- Referencing Tutorial
• Monash Indigenous Centre (MIC)
• MIC Library Catalogue
• Monash Indigenous Student services

Victorian links

• Indigenous Languages of Victoria
• Koori Business Network (Victoria)
• Koori Court (Victoria)
• Koori Heritage Trust (Victoria)
• Koori Records Unit (Victoria)
• Port Phillip Papers  (Batman Treaty and records of first contact in the Melbourne region)

National links

• Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library
• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
• Australian Human Rights Commission
• Australian Indigenous Languages
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Canberra)
• Australian National Archives
• Constitutional Recognition for Indigenous Australians
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Centre
• Norman Tindale's Map of First Nations
• Preservation of endangered languages-more resources
• Trove (Search all Australian Libraries via National Library of Australia)

International Links

• Chief George Manuel Memorial Library (Centre for World Indigenous Studies)
• Dag Hammarskjold Library (U.N.)
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

2012 Boyer Lectures   The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom

presented by Professor Marcia Langton AM, Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at The University of Melbourne.

Black Australian literature : a bibliography of fiction, poetry, drama, oral traditions and non-fiction, including critical commentary, 1900-1991 / Heinz Schurmann-Zeggel. New York : P. Lang, c1997 - Held at Caulfield, Gippsland and Matheson Libraries at A829.09 S394B

The National Gallery of Australia Aboriginal Memorial

The Aboriginal Memorial is an installation of 200 hollow log coffins from Central Arnhem Land. It commemorates all the indigenous people who, since 1788, have lost their lives defending their land. The artists who created this installation intended that it be located in a public place where it could be preserved for future generations.This site has interesting information about Arnhem land artists and clans.