Text+Suggestions+Indigenous+Voices

Texts for Indigenous VoicesTexts by Indigenous people explore a diverse range of ideas such as: identity, alienation, prejudice, assimilation, oppression and dispossession. Find texts that you are drawn to and appreciate. Visit the Macquarie Pen Anthology site for an extensive list of links and composers: [|Indigenous texts]

Oodgeroo Noonuccal - 'We are Going' and many others //The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter. The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place. The bora ring is gone. The corroboree is gone. And we are going// Jack Davis - '‘The First-born’, ‘Prejudice’, ‘Lost’, ‘The Drifters’ and ‘Desolation’ and many others Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo) - ‘Song Twenty-Seven' //On Nadoc day a youthman strangled in a cell: Who killed him, who were his murderers? ‘Not I,’ said the cop, ‘I only took him in.’ ‘Not I,’ said the town, ‘I never spoke his name, It’s no fault of mine that he had to die We treat them as we would our own, There’s no racism in our town// Canadian Indian poet Jim Dumont Indian poet Duke Redbird - ‘Tobacco Burns’ //My eyes seek a vision- For old people told of visions That were not seen by eyes But burned in the mind and mouth Of our men Who fought battles But did not win. My body cries for strong medicine But my eyes water from whisky My brain bleeds – my heart sweats I regret That tobacco burns And I am not strong.// Bobbi Sykes
 * Poetry **

Archie Roach (songs) - 'Took the Children Away' and much more Christine Anu - 'My Island Home' Kev Carmody - 'River of Tears' - [|Kevin Carmody's website] and film clips: [|From Little Things Big Things Grow] Yothu Yindi - 'Treaty' - [|Yothu Yindi Website]
 * Songs**

Matt Ottley - //Requiem for a Beast// Nadai Wheatley //- My Place//
 * Picture Books**


 * Dreamtime Stories**//:// [|//Dust Echoes//]

Clips from Australian Films: [|Australian Screen] //Bran Nue Dae - [|Film clips] Beneath Clouds - [|Film clips] Radiance - [|Film Clips] Yolongu Boy - [|Film Clips] Australian Rules Rabbit Proof Fence - [|Film Clips]// //Ten Canoes - [|Film Clips] The Tracker - [|Film Clips] One Night the Moon - [|Film Clips] Bush Mechanics Last of the Mohicans Samson and Delilah Shifting Sands - [|Film Clips] Jedda// - [|Film Clips] //Blood Brothers// doco - [|Clips] //One people Sing Freedom// doco - [|Doco Clips]
 * Films: [|Aboriginal Films]**


 * Paintings:** [Indian paintings and poetry|**American Indian poetry and paintings**]

Sally Morgan - //My Place// Phillip Gwynne - //Deadly Unna// Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor - //My Girragundji// Mudrooroo - //Wild Cat Falling//
 * Novels**