Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Resources

This community contains texts related to Aboriginal language and history that have been digitised from texts held by Rare Books & Manuscripts cared for by Special Collections Archives and Record Keeping (SpARK) at the University of Adelaide Library.

On behalf of Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi and in the interests of the whole Aboriginal community of this region, Chester Schultz is engaging in detailed research into the meaning and local context of Kaurna place names at particular locations.

Daisy Bates (1859 – 1951) was a pioneer in the observation, over a period of 35 years, of the Aboriginal people living in the desert around the Great Australian Bight.

Established in 2002 by Kaurna Elders, Dr Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien and Dr Alitya Wallara Rigney together with Linguist, Dr Rob Amery, Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi (KWP) is a body of Kaurna people, teachers, linguists and language enthusiasts who are passionate about the reclamation and revival of the Kaurna language.
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Rare Books & Manuscripts houses personal papers of members of the University staff, graduates, benefactors and other individuals and organisations associated with the University of Adelaide, and other papers relating to the Library's general collection interests, notably the theatre, music composition, the central Pacific, and Australian Aboriginal culture, linguistics and physical anthropology.

The principal collection of some 30,000 titles includes books published before 1840 (1900 for Australian works), fine and limited editions, works vulnerable because of their size or format, and selected publications of anticipated long-term research and reference value. Use search term variations for results relating to Indigenous Australians and/or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.