The Canning Stock Route
Curriculum areas: Indigenous culture & history, Australian history, geography, arts, English
Years: 5–9
Information and activities in this package complement the National Museum of Australia exhibition
About the exhibition
This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the richness of desert life today. It tells the story of the Canning Stock Route's impact on Aboriginal people, and the importance of the Country that surrounds it, through the works of senior and emerging artists and the stories of traditional custodians. It is a story of contact, conflict and survival, of exodus and return, seen through Aboriginal eyes, and interpreted through their voices, art and new media.
- Yiwarra Kuju (PDF 5.3 MB)
Full, colour
- Introduction (PDF 1.4 MB)
Includes curriculum relevance, ideas for activities for literacy, history, visual arts and sciences, and a bibliography, glossary and web resource list
- Map (PDF 472.0 KB)
Shows art centres and communities surrounding the Canning Stock Route
- Artist sheets (PDF 1.7 MB)
A set of art sheets with statements about the artist and questions to focus discussion
