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ABC online

• Dust Echoes
  Animated dreamtime stories produced in conjunction with Actor and Storyteller, Tom E Lewis. "Indigenous Australians are the custodians of important cultural understandings. We welcome the opportunity to share our culture, respectfully. Through its proper sharing, people will come to know who we are, and accept the truth of our ancestry. Dust Echoes is one way that we are bringing everyone back to the same campfire - black and white. We are tell our stories to you in a way you can understand, to help you see, hear and know. And we are telling these stories to ourselves, so that we will always remember, with pride, who we are."
• Us Mob
  "Us Mob" are four Aboriginal teenagers Charlie, Della, Harry and Jacquita! who live in Central Australia at Hidden Valley, one of the Town Camps on the outskirts of Alice Springs. Join them and you can follow them as they head off on journeys full of fun, excitement and crisis in 7 short films available through this site. The films are interactive with "YOU" choosing the story endings. You can also pay games, see video and text diaries, participate in forums and upload your own stories. We really want you to be a part of our community at Us Mob. So come on, get a permit and get the first episode now!
• Mission Voices
  Share in the unique culture and history of Victorian Aboriginal (Koorie) people. Hear Victorian Elders tell of their lives on missions and reserves. They are places full of contradictions, places they call home. Covers mission life on Framlingham, Ebenezer, Lake Tyers, Corranderk, Cummeragunja and Lake Condah and features Elders including Uncle Albert Mullet, Aunty Joy Murphy, Uncle Lenny Clarke, Uncle Colin Walker and more.
• Message Club
  Is ABC's latest youth site for upper primary and lower high school Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. The site offers school activities for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students with the opportunity to present their work online. Its main aim is to promote student interest in traditional and contemporary Indigenous life within new media / visual arts / writing / music / history / sports / reading and nutrition. The site also aims to develop a connection between Australian schools through an online community where urban and rural students can share experiences about the way they live.
• Desert Rap
  Hip Hop went off in the red centre for NAIDOC the National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration. Brother Black and Monkey Mark from South West Syndicate and Morganics from Metabass ’n’ Breath were in Alice Springs running a three week Hip Hop workshop for Triple J.
• In Murri Hands on ABC Radio National's Encounter
  Graham Paulson, Australia's first and still Queensland's only ordained Indigenous Baptist minister, is creating a new pathway of Christian leadership training for Indigenous communities and churches.
• The Common Good
  Indigenous Aspirations for Constitutional Law Reform John ...Scott Chief education Officer, Aboriginal education Office of the Board of Studies, NSW August 1998.
• First Nations
  The ABC's online guide to programs and other content relating to the centenary of Federation in Australia

• The WIK 10-point plan explained
  Radio National - Life Matters - This is a transcript of Norman Swan's interview with Ian Viner, QC, Deputy Chair of the Aboriginal Reconciliation Council. The interview was broadcast in ABC Radio National's LIFE MATTERS program on November 20 and November 21, 1997.

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Art

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• ATSIA - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Arts Unit of the Australia Council
  The site aims to promote Indigenous artists nationally and internationally and is not designed to act as an advice service.
• Aboriginal Australia
  Since ancient times Aboriginal people have been engaged in complex networks of trade and cultural exchange. Ceremonial ochres were distributed through merchant networks across dozens of language groups and thousands of miles. Aboriginal trade extended to a barter system with visiting Bugis Sailors from the Indonesian archipelago.Talk with us, ask questions, learn about our world.
• Aboriginal Writers
  List of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, storytellers, poets & performers.
• Aboriginal Art and Craft by Tobwabba Art Australia
  Tobwabba Art online has retail and wholesale shopping offering secure transaction, an Aboriginal Art Gallery and the history of the Worimi people.
• Bangarra Dance Company
  Bangarra Dance Theatre is one of the youngest and the oldest of Australia's dance companies.
• Blackbook Indigenous Production book
The Black Book Directory lists more than 2,700 Indigenous people and organisations working in the arts, media and cultural industries. You can search listings by their state, Indigenous nation or language group, name and category. A list of 2,000 Indigenous works of music, literature and screen productions can be sourced through the Black Book Library on this site.
• Blackout - new media arts index
NISMNA the National Indigenous School In New Media Arts, Adelaide, featuring the fabulous talents of Indigenous artists in every field.
• cyberTribe
An Indigenous online Gallery that aims to encourage the production and exhibition of Indigenous Art with a focus on the digital.
• Desart
  The Association of Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Centres.
• Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation
  Western Australian Aboriginal Artists Advisory.
• INGARNENDI Material Culture of Aboriginal Australia
  The South Australian Museum website to complement its Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery. The Ingarnendi website takes its name from the Kuarna word meaning "to look about and inquire". It will provide access to the museum's collection of Aboriginal artefacts, archival photographs, films, artworks and journals.
• Leah Purcell
  Leah is one of Indigenous Australia's most prominent actors. From Murgon near Cherbourg in Queensland, Leah has been a multi-talented leader in the arts and a great role model for Indigenous youth. She is best known for her one woman play, Box the Pony and the award winning documentary "Black Chicks Talking" documentary.
• Manikay.Com
  Traditional Arnhem Land Music Archive. An online database of commercially released albums and films containing traditional Aboriginal music from Arnhem Land, Australia. Site contains music samples, liner notes, cover photos and more.
• Tumblong
  Tumblong is a production site for new art on the World Wide Web. The art is about the connection between Australia and Britain in the past, present and future.

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Communties

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• Apunipima Cape York Health Council
  Apunipima Cape York Health Council advocates for the health needs of Cape York communities. Our primary aim is to move Cape York society beyond passive welfare dependency which, along with a severe alcohol and drug problem, is fundamental to poor Indigenous health in the region.
• Budamurra Aboriginal Corporation
  The Corporation based on the South Coast of NSW in Ulladulla promotes understanding of the Aboriginal Culture through community involvement and school visits includes an art gallery, guided tours of the area and the local dance troupe.
• Cadigal and Wangal
  This is a source of information covering the history of the Cadigal and Wangal people and the land that they inhabited in the region of Marrickville Council in Sydney's inner west. In the documenting of this history, many names and images of the people, their lifestyles and circumstances are presented. In many cases these people may have passed away. We apologise, in advance, if we upset anyone through their presentation within this website.
• Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation
  Juluwarlu's mission is to collect, record, catalogue, archive, preserve, re-produce, exhibit and broadcast the culture and history of the Yindjibarndi peoples as a resource for our own people, especially the children; to provide the resources to drive and nurture cultural and economic futures; and to share with the broader community.
• Mapoon Aborignal Community
  Mapoon Aboriginal Shire is located 100 km north of Weipa in the Cape York Peninsula. The Council is a leader in best practice governance in Local Government and looks after a community of .
• Yarrabah Aboriginal Community
  Yarrabah is a small community with just over 4000 people, it is about a 45 minute drive (37km south) from the city of Cairns. Lots of information about the community.
• Ending Offending
  "Our Message" A collaborative iniative involving inmates of Northern Territory Correctional Centres that addresses issues of Alcohol and drug misuse and offending through: education; training; art; music; persoal stories and theraputic programs.
• Tasmanian Aboriginal Historical Services
  We are an independant Tasmanian Aboriginal organisation whose aim is to educate and break down the stereotypes and ignorance which now prevails within both the Tasmanian community and the broader community.
• Strait Up
  Comprehensive site featuring stories from the Torres Strait including video and audio plus maps and snapshots of life in the Torres Strait and other Torres Strait Islander links.
• Wadeye Community
  Wadeye (pronounced Wad-air) (Port Keats) is a tribal Aboriginal Catholic community situated on the western edge of the Daly River Reserve in the Northern Territory. Flying time is around 50 minutes. During the wet season Wadeye is cut off from the outside world for up to five (5) months.
• The Yorta Yorta struggle for Justice
  Since the European invasion into Yorta Yorta Tribal Lands in the 1840's, the Yorta Yorta people have been continually seeking justice for the dispossession of their land and the destruction of their traditional culture and heritage.

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Education

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• Indij Readers
  For Little Fullas, For Big Fullas, is a series of books featuring contemporary Aboriginal stories with illustrations by Aboriginal Artists. The aim of the series is to help kids learn to read – both Indigenous and non Indigenous.
• Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
  Research institute publishing material on a variety of Indigenous issues. Searchable from this site is the AIATSIS library... a major collection of print, audio & visual material relating to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander studies.
• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Website
  Educating about, and the education of, Australia's First Peoples.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives & Information Services
  The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Library & Information Resources Network developed protocols intended to guide libraries, archives and information services in culturally appropriate ways when interacting with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and when handling materials with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content. You'll find these protocols here.

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Government

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• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)
  Federal Government body representing Australia's Indigenous community. Aims to strengthen indigneous people & organisations & protect, promote & pursue their rights. Find information about the commission including policies and programs, regional information, native title, cultural information, & international Indigenous issues.
• Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR)
  Coalition of community groups and concerned citizens that is opposed to any plan that seeks to extinguish native title and further dispossess Australia's Indigenous people. ANTaR organised the magnificent Sea of Hands art installations which continue to tour around the country.
• Bringing Them Home - Stolen Generation Report
  The complete report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Indigenous from their families.
• Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
  Established in 1991 to guide the nation's reconciliation process, aiming to improve relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other Australians, through increasing understanding of Indigenous history, cultures, past dispossession and present disadvantage. "Speaking with one voice, we the people of Australia, of many origins as we are, make a commitment to go on together recognising the gift of one another's presence"- The Council's Draft Declaration of Reconciliation released 3 June 1999.
• Footprints Before Me
  Streaminglining the process of tracing family and community histories in Queensland. Created by the Indigenous Libraries Unit in Cairns and the State Library of Queensland.
• Indigenous Portal of the Australian Government
  Welcome to the Indigenous Portal, your window to resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders.
• Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination
  The Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (OIPC) coordinates a whole-of-government approach to programs and services for Indigenous Australians. It is a part of the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, and has a central role in the Australian Government's arrangements in Indigenous affairs since the 1st of July 2004.
• National Native Title Tribunal
  See how the native title process works ...the tribunal plays a mediation role in helping Indigenous people, governments, industry & others to negotiate proposed uses of land and waters in areas where native title may exist.
• Social Justice Commissioner - Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
  Information on the stolen generation report; native title; Indigenous deaths in custody; Indigenous social justice; education programs; statistics on Indigenous issues; speeches; relevant links.

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Health

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• Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet
  Hosted by Edith Cowan University in Perth this site aims to contribute to improving the health of Australia's Indigenous people by making relevant, high quality knowledge and information easily accessible.
• Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network
  The Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network is dedicated to improving the health of Indigenous Australians through education and professional development, mobilisation and advocacy.

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Land Councils

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• Central Land Council (CLC)
  The CLC is a council of Aboriginal people representing our own communities. It is a statutory representative body representing Aboriginal people in the Central Australian region - an area of 780,000 square kilometres.
• Indigenous Land Council (ILC)
  The ILC is an independent Commonwealth statutory authority which was established in 1995. The ILC receives its funding from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund for Indigenous community land purchases.
• Northern Land Council (NLC)
  This site outlines the struggle for Aboriginal land rights in the northtern part of the Northern Territory including the role of the NLC.

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Language

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• FATSIL Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
  This is the only national Indigenous- run website actively publishing materials related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages. It provides information on individual languages, contacts, policy developments and research.
• Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay Web Dictionary
  The Kamilaroi/ Gamilaraay language belongs to the Kamilaroi people and to Kamilaroi country, northern New South Wales, Australia.
• Aboriginal Language of Australia
  The Internet Library for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
• Western Australian Aboriginal Languages
  Handbook of WA Aboriginal languages south of the Kimberley Region.

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Literature

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• Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD) Press
  IAD Press is Australia's oldest independent Indigenous publishing house. Over more than 30 years IAD Press has evolved into a national publisher known for our innovative and award-winning books.  IAD Press is based in Alice Springs.
• Magabala Books
  Indigenous Australian literature from some of Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, artists, poets and story-tellers from this Broome based Indigenous publishing house.

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Media

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• Australian Film, Television, Radio School (AFTRS) - Indigenous Program Initiatives
  Through education and training the AFTRS seeks to improve an avenue for Indigenous people to express themselves, in their own way, through control from behind the camera.
• CAAMA
  CAAMA Productions is the television production arm of the CAAMA Group which is an Aboriginal owned media organisation located in Alice Springs in the central desert of Australia. The group includes CAAMA Music, CAAMA Radio, CAAMA Shops and IMPARJA satellite television station.
• Deadly Vibes
  Place to find the latest in the Indigenous Music world.
• Indigenous Australia
  Recording and Marketing of Indigenous Music.
• Goolarri Media
  Goolarri Media is the operating name of Broome Aboriginal Media Association and Goolarri Media Enterprises.
• Living Black - SBS TV
  SBS Television presents Living - an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander magazine program.
• Koori Mail
  The Koori Mail is the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander newspaper - the voice of Indigenous Australia.
• Torres News
  The Torres News is a weekly newspaper published on Thursday Island every Wednesday. This website is updated every Monday and features articles from the previous week's editions. Extras that aren't published in the newspaper will also feature on this website where possible.
• Warlpiri Media
  This site is on-line from Yuendumu, a town of over a 1000 tribal Indigenous people, 300 kms north west of Alice Springs.

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Multimedia

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• Indiginet - Multimedia and Internet services
  IndigiNet Multimedia and InterNet Services range of Internet services, is designed to meet the needs of communities and community organisations or to the individual. Whether you want to access the Internet, or gain access to quality training in all aspects of Multimedia.
• Lore of the Land
  A awesome Internet site that is designed to meet the needs of communities and School education bodies or to the individual.

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Indigenous Music & Musicians

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• Alice Haines
  Alice is an accomplished, award winning musician and an internationally recognised artistic talent.  This launch takes Alice to the next step in her already successful career.
• Casey Donovan
  The official site of our Koori Australian Idol winner.
• Christine Anu
  Christine Anu is an Australian household name, and her signature song “My Island Home” will resonate in the hearts of Australians for all time. In the entertainment industry she is known as a total ‘triple threat' an industry term for an artist outstanding at the three core disciplines of performing: Singing, Dancing and Acting. To the Australian Indigenous people (Torres Strait and Aboriginal) she is a warrior and a talented, dedicated and passionate role model.
• Glenn Skuthorpe
  A gifted songwriter and compelling storyteller, Glenn Skuthorpe crosses the folk/country borders with his take on contemporary Indigenous Australia.
• Jimmy Little
  Uncle Jimmy Little is a legend in the Australian music industry. He has been singing for near 50 years since the mid 50s and had his first hit song "Royal Telephone" in 1963. Althought he started out singing country gospel, in the last 5 years Uncle Jimmy has garnered a new generation of fans with his latest albums of Australian pop songs starting out with his "Messenger" album in 1999 followed by "Resonate" and 2005's "Life's what you make it". Not forgetting his country roots in 2004 he released "Down the Road". In 1999 Uncle Jimmy was inducted into the ARIA Australian Music Hall of Fame.
• Local Knowledge
  Novocastrians, Local Knowledge are energetic "Hip Hop Realists" with the mantra... "telling it like it was, how it is and how it should be!" Far from mimicking Black American rappers Local Knowledge rap about real Indigenous issues and with passion they speak about issues they feel need to be aired.
• NoKTuRNL
  Aboriginal "rap metal" band from Alice Springs. Damien Armstrong and Craig Tilmouth formed NoKTuRNL in 1996 and first came to national prominence when they toured with Australian band Spiderbait in April/May 1997. They released their first album "Time Flies" on the 21st of July 2003.
• Pigram Music
  The Pigram Brothers are a seven-piece country folk/rock band from the pearling town of Broome, Western Australia.  The Pigram Brothers' original music captures Broome's and the Kimberley's Saltwater Spirit and Country.  Songs from their albums "Saltwater Country" and "Jiir" have become indigenous media anthems. After many years of playing in a variety of bands and differing musical projects the brothers pooled together their skills and talent and officially formed in 1996. Also represeted here are the Little Piggies, Scrap Metal and Geoff Fletcher.
• Skinny Fish Music
  Traditional and contemporary Indigenous Australian music shop online. Many titles available here such as Seaman Dan, the Letterstick Band and Archie Roach.
• Stiff Gins
  The Stiff Gins are a Sydney based duo featuring singers/musicians Kaleena Briggs & Nardi Simpson. In the four years since they first met at the Eora Centre in Redfern, the Stiff Gins have performed all around the world including represented Australia at cultural institutes in Noumea, New Caledonia, Hanoi, Vietnam and Xijon Spain, played shows and festivals throughout Canada, the US, Ireland and performed extensively throughout Australia. Stiff Gins are, through harmony & song, reclaiming a derogatory term for Aboriginal woman, and declaring its meaning as proud passionate and talented.
• Troy Cassar-Daley
  Official site of one of Australia's most popularcountry music singers Troy Cassar-Daley. His site includes news, photos, biography, discography, tour dates, forum, links and fan club information.
• Yothu Yindi
  Information on the band, their music, art & culture & tour dates. It also allows you to create your own Yothu Yindi sound!

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Resources

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• Aboriginal History Inc
  Aboriginal History Inc is a publishing organisation based in Canberra, Australia. It publishes the annual refereed journal Aboriginal History and a monograph series.
• www.mabo.com.au
  This site is to benefit, not only people in Australia, but from all over the globe. This is not a political site, and our site has no association with the wonderful family of Edward Koiki Mabo.
• Black Pages is Australia's first and only on-line Indigenous Business and Community Services Directory.
  A comprehensive listing never before provided in this format. Education and entertainment through our Books and Music link and Information and research tools by utilizing the Smart Links listing.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives & Information Services
  The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Library & Information Resources Network developed protocols intended to guide libraries, archives and information services in culturally appropriate ways when interacting with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and when handling materials with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content. You'll find these protocols here.
• Database of Indigenous Resources [Northern Territory Library]
  Providing all Territorians with access to information, literature and their documentary heritage.
• International Aboriginal links
  This site provides a huge collection of Aboriginal resources on a International level. From Canada to the South Pacific.
• House of Aboriginality
  Be a copyright detective for appalling appropriations of aboriginal art...eg. western desert painting imagery on underwear...etc click on "visit the house".
• Jobsearch
  Welcome to Australian Job Search Indigenous Employment Service.
• Veterans Legion
  A veterans organisation and they would like to contact as many Aboriginal veterans as they can. They know that many are suffering in silence and they would like veterans to come together in the brotherhood veterans.
• Indigenous Australians at War
  This site is dedicated to all Indigenous Australians who have served Australia in war and peacetime.

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Theatre

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• Australian Aboriginal Theatre Initiative Incorporated
  Developing dialogues between Indigenous Artists.
• Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Islander Theatre Co-operative
  Ilbijerri is the longest running Indigenous theatre co-operative in Australia and the only one in Victoria. Formed by Indigenous theatre practitioners and community members, Ilbijerri exists to provide a voice for community stories and support the professional development of Indigenous theatre practitioners through the creation of innovative Indigenous theatre.
• Kooemba Jdarra
  Based in Brisbane, Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts produces contemporary performances that present the stories of Indigenous Australians.
• Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre
  Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre was established in 1993 to develop Indigenous people for all aspects of theatre based in Perth in Western Australia.

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Tourism

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• Aboriginal Tourism Australia
  Aboriginal Tourism Australia (ATA) is committed to ensuring that Australia's tourism experience is enriched by Indigenous culture, values, spiritual connection to the land and wonderful, welcoming people. We wish to share with you our love for our country, its meaning, its past and its present.

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• For Aboriginal Youth, by Aboriginal Youth...
  Debwengidinook is the Ojibwe word for voices. The "voices" in this Web documentary pilot are those of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Youth from communities across Canada who shared their ideas and personal stories with their peers through interviews.
• Sami Siida of North America
  The Sami Siida of North America is a network of regional communities and individuals who share the heritage of the Sami (Saami) culture of Northern Scandinavia, Finland and the Kola Peninsula.  Participants are immigrants and the descendants of immigrants from that region of Europe traditionally known as Lapland (today called Samiland or Sápmi) and all share an active interest in their heritage.
• Sovereign Stories
  Sovereign Stories offers an overview of the historical and political landscape for Hawaiian self-determination and a look at individuals at the heart of the struggle.