Background reading and links

The Yolngu of northeast Arnhem Land

• Isaacs, J. Wandjuk Marika: Life Story. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1995.
• Keen, I. Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Region: Yolngu of Northeast Arnhem Land. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
• McMillan, A. An Intruder’s Guide to East Arnhem Land. Sydney: Niblock Publishing, 2001.
• Marika, R. ‘The 1998 Wentworth Lecture’, Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, 1999, p 3 ff.
• Williams, N. The Yolngu and Their Land: A System of Land Tenure and the Fight for its Recognition. Canberra: Institute of Australian Studies, 1986.

Kinship

• Williams, D. Exploring Aboriginal Kinship. Canberra: CDC, 1981.
• Williams, N. ‘The Relationship of Genealogical Reackoning and Group Formation: Yolngu Examples’ in Connections in Native Title: Genealogies, Kinship and Groups.
• J.D. Finlayson, B. Rigsby & H. J. Beck (eds), CAEPR Research Monograph, No 13, 1999.

Language and Learning

• Aboriginal languages: why the struggle to keep them alive? Indigenous Australians tell Nicholas Rothwell what is at stake. Transcript from Lingua Franca program 24/1/2004 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/s1008591.htm
• Aboriginal Pedagogy: Aboriginal Teachers Speak Out, Geelong, Deakin University Press
• Cooke, M (ed). Aboriginal Languages in Contemporary Contexts: Yolngu Matha at Galiwin’ku. Contemporary Uses of Aboriginal Language Research Project, Batchelor College, 1996.
• Christie , M.J. with D. Eades, B. Gray, & A. Shnukal. Aboriginal perspectives on experience and learning: the role of language in Aboriginal education . Deakin University Press, 1985.
• Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia (IKRMNA) project http://www.cdu.edu.au/centres/ik/index.html
• Marika, R., Ngurruwutthun, D. & White, L. Always Together, Yaka Gåna: Participatory Research at Yirrkala As part of the Development of a Yolngu Education Yirrkala Literature Production Centre, 1990.
• Marika-Mununggiritj, R. & Christie, M.J. ‘Yolngu metaphors for learning’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 113, 1995, pp59-62.
• Marika-Mununggiritj, R. ‘Some notes on Principles for Aboriginal Pedagogy.’ Ngoondjook, December 1991, pp33-34.
• Marika-Mununggiritj, R. ‘Workshops as Teaching Learning Environments’ Ngoondjook, November 1990, pp 43–54.
• Marika-Mununggiritj, R. ‘How can Balanda (White Australians) learn about the Aboriginal World?’ Ngoondjook, July 1991, pp17–25.
• Marika-Mununggiritj, R., Maymuru, B. et al, ‘The History of the Yirrkala Community School: Yolngu thinking about education in the Laynha and Yirrkala Area. Ngoondjook, September 1990, pp32– 52.
• Walsh, M. & Yallop, C. Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia. Aboriginal Studies Press, 1993.
• Watson, H. Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Deakin University Press, 1989.
• Wunungmurra, W. ‘Dhawurrpunaramirri: Finding the Common Ground for a new Aboriginal Curriculum’ Ngoondjook.
• Yolngu Studies, Charles Darwin University
• Yunupingu, M. 'Yothu Yindi - Finding Balance’ in Voices from the Land Mandawuy Yunupingu (et al.), ABC Books, 1994, pp1-11.

Art

• Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre, Saltwater: Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea Country. Yirrkala: Buku-Larrngay Mulka Art Centre, 1999.
• Coyne, C. Buku-Larrngay Mulka Printmakers (1996-98). Yirrkala: Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre, 1998.
• McIntosh, I. S. ‘Sacred Memory and Living Tradition: Aboriginal Art of the Macassan Period in Northeastern Arnhem Land’ in Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, S. Kleinert & M. Neale (gen eds), OUP, 2000.
• Morphy, H. Ancestral connections: Art and an Aboriginal system of knowledge. University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Music and Dance

• Corn, A. D. S. Dreamtime wisdom, modern time vision: the Aboriginal acculturation of popular music in Arnhem Land, Australia. Casuarina, NT: North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University, 1999.
• Knopoff, S. ‘Yuta Manikay: Juxtaposition of Ancestral and Contemporary Elements in the Performance of Yolngu Clan Songs’ Yearbook of Traditional Music, 1992, pp 138-53.
• Tamisari, F. “’Dancing the Land, The Land Dances Through Us’: From Dancing Comes the Land” Writings on Dance, 20, 2000, pp 30-45.
• Yothu Yindi website

Environment

• Langton, M. Burning Questions: Emerging environmental issues for indigenous peoples in Northern Australia. Darwin : Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management, Northern Territory University, 1998.
• Mununggiritj, N. Statement on the Value of Biodiversity. Yaan, May 1996, pp 4-6.
• Mununggurr, N. United Nations “Biodiversity” – Statement on the Value of Biodiversity (Draft), Yutana Dhawu, March 1996, pp. 14-15.
• Rudder, J. The natural world of the Aboriginal people of north east Arnhem Land, the "Yolgnu". O'Connor, ACT: Restoration House, 1999.
• Storrs, M. & Cooke, P. ‘Caring for Country: The development of a formalised structure for land management on aboriginal lands within the Northern Land Council region of the Northern Territory’, Ngoonjook 20, 2001, pp 73-79.