National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth. You can support and get to know your local Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities through activities and events held across the country. (NAIDOC Week | NAIDOC)
To honour NAIDOC celebrations across Australia, we have put together a list of resources researched by our senior facilitator, Tara Hill.
2024 NAIDOC WEEK THEME: Keep The Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud
Indigenous Australia Maps
The AIATSIS map serves as a visual reminder of the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. It was created in 1996 as part of the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia project and attempts to show language, social or nation groups based on published sources available up to 1994.
Acknowledgement of Country
This Acknowledgement of Country features artworks by Arkie Barton and is narrated by Rudi Bremer
Resource Highlight: Narragunnawali - RAP in early childhood and schools
A Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is a formal commitment to reconciliation. It documents how your school or early learning service will strengthen relationships, respect and opportunities in the classroom, around the school/service and with the community.
Schools and early learning services can develop a RAP using the Narragunnawali platform to register and extend on existing initiatives, or to begin their reconciliation journeys.
Books for Children
Somebody’s Land: Welcome to Our Country
Books for Educators
Homeland Calling:
Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices
Finding the Heart of
the Nation: Journey of the Uluru Statement Towards Voice, Treaty and Truth
A1 fold AIATSIS map Indigenous Australia Map
TOTES (The Online Teacher's and Educator's Symposium)
TOTE'S Resources
We have the following resources currently available in our Symposium:
- Making Cultural Connections with Cecelia Wright and Jackie Bennet
- Reconciliation Action Plans with Zoe from Narragunnawali
- Cultural Inclusion- Raindrops of diversity