Information for Educators

Educational Resources

Aboriginal Studies Press (ASP) publishes in print and digitally. Competitively priced books are complemented by free resources, including a website, selected free monographs and teachers’ notes tied to the national curriculum and state syllabuses.

ASP titles are valuable resources for educators, providing a view of Australian history that might otherwise remain invisible.

Aboriginal Studies Press (ASP) is the publishing arm of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), the world’s premier research and collecting institute of Australian Indigenous studies.


Free resources

The Little Red Yellow Black website provides an exciting range of free print, audio and video resources, including a 40-page set of teachers’ notes.

Teachers’ notes (from years 9 to 12) on a range of subjects and themes map to the national curriculum and state syllabuses.

 

Key titles for educators

The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An introduction to Indigenous Australia has established itself as THE introduction to Indigenous Australia. It is used in schools, universities and in cross-cultural training. The third edition is now available with an updated companion website. The second edition and companion website were shortlisted in educational awards.

The Aboriginal Australia map (Horton, ed.) is a valuable companion to The Little Red Yellow Black Book.  It is a graphic illustration indicating the general location of larger groupings of Aboriginal people, which may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. The map represents research carried out for the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia which used the published resources available between 1988 and 1994.

Indigenous voices

Our outstanding list of life stories, many are autobiographies, allow students and teachers to explore Indigenous lives across time and place.

Key titles include Back on the Block where Bill Simon talks with disarming frankness about being a Stolen Generations child and the consequences of his forced removal, while Doreen Kartinyeri describes the Ngarrindjeri people’s tenacious maintenance of connection with country and culture. The award-winning Cleared Out and the film Contact provide a remarkable telling of first contact in the Western Desert in 1964. Yuwali’s story sits alongside those of the patrol officers charged with bringing in the last women and children from the desert. 

Activism, rights and freedoms

The 1967 Referendum: Race, power and the Australian constitution and Fight for Liberty and Freedom bring otherwise invisible Indigenous perspectives into the narratives of twentieth century Australian history. 

Identity

Murray River Country: An ecological dialogue with traditional owners and Mutton Fish: The surviving culture of Aboriginal people and abalone on the south coast of NSW allow secondary teachers to build units of work around place, history and ecology. Mutton Fish can be used in conjunction with Bittangabee Tribe.

Languages

Monty Hale’s Kurlumarniny is a bilingual telling of his family’s migration from the desert to the station country of the eastern Pilbara, his childhood growing up on Mt Edgar Station, witnessing Australia’s engagement in World War II, and the famous Pilbara station-worker’s strike of 1946.