LibGuides: Year 7 History: Indigenous Australia

Inquiry # 2

Explore the innovations of Australia's First Nations Peoples and evaluate the impacts using a diverse range of evidence.

EXPLORE Dark Emu with Bruce Pascoe through the link below.

Watch the "The First Inventors" that explores First Nation peoples life.

Use search terms "Aboriginal Australia"

Discover First Footprints and learn about of lives of our First Nations people.

See links and films below that explore First Nation Technologies.

First Weapons
A collection of 6 30 minute films about weapons designed, made and used by our First Nations peoples.

Trade with the Makasar: National Museum of Australia
Read about how First Nations peoples traded with the Makasar.
ABC: "New study reveals history of Aboriginal trade with foreign visitors".
ABC Landline article looking at recent research in NT showing trade between First Nations and Indonesian peoples.
Museum Victoria: Aboriginal People and Trade
Article looking at trade with Macassan/Makasar people of Indonesia.
ABC: Did Aboriginal and Asian people trade before European settlement in Darwin?
ABC news article discussing the trade between First Nations communities trading with Indonesian communities.
Vic GOV: Aboriginal flaked tools
Fact sheet about flaked stone tools and links to other tools made by First Nations people.
Australian National Geographic: Aboriginal Inventions
A look at 10 tools used by First Nations peoples.