Torres Strait Islander and Mabo Day

Educational Resources

Each year, QATSIF helps schools to celebrate Eddie Mabo’s legacy by sharing Torres Strait Islander resources that are available online.

These resources are just a small snap shot of the incredibly diverse and beautiful Torres Strait Islander Cultures.

Please be advised that some of these resources contain images and voices of deceased persons and represent the view of the producers of these resources.

Links to some of these resources are below:

General Resources

• QATSIF Torres Strait Islander Quiz: https://youtu.be/aUKUA7jfT9w  

• Torres Strait Islander flag - https://youtu.be/FDkx9fsJBw8 

• Indigenous Games resource (Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal games:  https://www.sportaus.gov.au/yulunga

• Taba Naba - video to help teach this Torres Strait sit down dance (with Christina Anu and the Wiggles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Xn9bTIxGI  

• The KaiKai Cookbook (including Torres Strait Islander cooking): https://kaikaibook.com.au/

• Paper fish weaving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg1E0-wSwHE and https://youtu.be/X19K134XeR8 

• Torres Strait Seasons and Stars: https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/about/k-12-policies/aboriginal-torres-strait-islander-perspectives/resources/seasons-stars

• Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion resources:

  • One Ilan man (Vanessa Seekee) - https://www.awm.gov.au/wartime/12/article/ilan-man

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_Strait_Light_Infantry_Battalion

• Stories of Islanders in the railways : https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/10/20/2394199.htm

Torres Strait TV Shows, Clips and Documentaries 

• Remembering Mabo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB24BLgl3Kw  

• Mabo Aylan Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td0ZDLwda2I  

• Mabo (movie): https://iview.abc.net.au/show/mabo  

• Blue Water Empire (Torres Strait history and Cultures): https://iview.abc.net.au/show/blue-water-empire 

• Strait To The Plate (series):  Island cooking and culture - https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/strait-to-the-plate 

• Torres Strait Islanders Honouring their culture for the new generation (1m): https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1817746499621/torres-strait-islanders-honouring-their-culture-for-the-new-generation  

• Coming of the Light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vdPDnjo2WI  

• Erub — the Coming of the Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMKkVtyPcY0  

Torres Strait Islander Traditional Dance

• NITV Winds of Zenadth report (2018) - https://fb.watch/kpk-MKgib9/

• NITV Winds of Zenadth Day 1 report (2018) - https://fb.watch/kpl9E9C58f/

Torres Strait Islander Music 

• Torres Strait Islander Musical Instruments - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5XfZa2xyog

• Tagai Buway – Two Worlds 

• Tagai Buway – Culture Remainz (I am the Future) 

• Christine Anu – My Island Home  

• Christine Anu – Kulba Yaday 

• Rita Mills - Coconut 

• Rita Mills - My Thursday Island Home 

• Rita Mills - Blue Mountain 

• Seaman Dan – Black Swana 

• Seaman Dan – Welcome to the Torres Strait 

• Seaman Dan – Are You From T.I 

• Wangetti – Tabanaba  

• Cygnet Repu – Black Swan 

• Mau Power ft. Archie Roach – Freedom 

• Mau Power – Island Home 

 Mabo Day songs 

• Mau Power ft. Radical Son – Koiki  

• Irwarpaup ft. Tamyok – ‘Small Island Big Fight' 

QATSIF Creative Arts Competition Torres Strait Islander Music 

• Baba Waiar (Brigidine Sistas) - https://youtu.be/Kjrb2LP6b0k  

• Always Was, Always Will Be (Georgina Thomas Peddell) - https://youtu.be/KffyIvfNnDg  

Torres Strait Stories: 

• Torres Strait Stories - https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/discover/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-cultures-and-stories/contemporary-stories/retold  

• The story of Gelam the creator of dugong - https://youtu.be/l0oBFtlDwTs  

• The story of Waubin - Kaurareg Nation Story - https://youtu.be/vg0lrYDMAug  

• The Story of Geigi & Nageg - https://youtu.be/lMxweYkqI28  

• Eepathu, a Kaurareg Animation Story - https://youtu.be/Y1bR7quu1bM  

• How fire was brought to the Torres Strait - https://youtu.be/-eiUwQBgAxY  

 Torres Strait Islander Customs: 

• Ailan Kastom (Island Custom) - Torres Strait Documentary – 2012 - https://youtu.be/KeDz37AIWgE 

 Food: 

•  Torres Strait Semur Chicken - https://youtu.be/J604oTtX9A8  

•  Torres Strait Sop Sop - https://youtu.be/FgdgxUplQa4  

•  How Torres Strait Islanders make Coconut Oil - https://youtu.be/w6E5OnlKntg