Ngarrindjeri is an Aboriginal nation of 18 language groups who occupied, and still inhabit, the Lower Murray, Coorong and Lakes area of South Australia.

Their lands and waters extended 30km up the Murray from Lake Alexandrina, the length of the Coorong and the coastal area to Encounter Bay. Today this Aboriginal group is still very strong, with a large community of people based in the Lower Murray and Coorong area.

State Library catalogues

The online Library catalogue contains details of material in all formats held in the Library. This material includes photographs, (with over 70,000 viewable digitised images), other pictorial items, ephemera, article references, unpublished material held in personal, society and business categories, including mission records, as well as oral histories from interviews with Aboriginal people. Staff can assist with searching the catalogue. Some library materials will be available on the open shelves however some items may need to be specially retrieved, for which prior arrangement should be made.

Electronic resource

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Print Resources

Bell, Diane (ed). Listen to Ngarrindjeri women speaking = Kungun Ngarrindjeri miminar yunnan, North Melbourne, Vic. : Spinifex Press, 2008

Bell, Diane, Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin : a world that is, was and will be, North Melbourne, Spinifex Press, 1998

Berndt, Ronald M. and Berndt, Catherine H. with Stanton, John E.,A world that was: the Yaraldi of the Murray River and the lakes, South Australia, Vancouver: UBC Press, 1993,

Forte, Margaret,Flight of an eagle: the dreaming of Ruby Hammond, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1995

French, Dorothy. Nganauwe Ngarrindjeri nomawi : my Ngarrindjeri family, Murray Bridge, SA : Nyiri Publications, 2004

Gale, Mary-Anne,My side of the bridge: the life story of Veronica Brodie, Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2002,

Guide to archival records held in the Mortlock Library of South Australiana relating to Aboriginal people, compiled by David Jury, Adelaide: The Library, 1989 [i.e. 1990]

Haebich, Anna. Broken circles: fragmenting indigenous families 1800-2000. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000, chapter 5

Jenkin, Graham,Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri, Point McLeay, Raukkan Publishers, 1995, 2^nd ed

Kartinyeri, Doreen and Anderson, Sue. Doreen Kartinyeri : my Ngarrindjeri calling, Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2008.

Kartinyeri, Doreen,Ngarrindjeri Anzacs, Adelaide, Aboriginal Family History Project, 1996

Kartinyeri, Doreen, Ngarrindjeri Nation: Genealogies of Ngarrindjeri Families, 2006

The native tribes of South Australia, with an introductory chapter by J.D. Woods, 1997, first published 1879

The Ngarrindjeri people: Aboriginal people of the River Murray, Lakes and Coorong, 1990, Education Department of South Australia (an Aboriginal studies course for secondary students in years 8-10)

Ngarrindjeri nation sea country plan: caring for Ngarrindjeri country and culture, 2007

Rankine, Harriet. I had a good life - it was beautiful, Murray Bridge, S. Aust. : Nyiri Publications, 2008

Salgado, Barbara & Rankin, Nellie,Burundi voices: Ngarrindjeri people's stories from the Lower Murray, Murray Bridge, Rural City of Murray Bridge, 1994

Taplin, George, (ed) The Folklore, manners, customs and languages of the South Australian Aborigines, Bridgewater, 1989, edited by G. Taplin, first published 1879

Woolmer, George,Traditional Ngarinyeri people: Aboriginal people of the Murray Mouth Region,Adelaide, Education Department of South Australia, 1986

Hindmarsh Island/Kumarangk

Brunton, Ron, Blocking business: an anthropological assessment of the Hindmarsh Island dispute, Melbourne, Tasman Institute, 1995

Clarke, Bernard and Sumner, Ken, Kumarangk - Hindmarsh Island whose truth? : a reflection on the Uniting Church's attempt to support members of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress in South Australia and stand alongside Ngarrindjeri people in their journey, Adelaide, Uniting Church Synod of SA, 1997

Simons, Margaret, The meeting of the waters: the Hindmarsh Island affair, Sydney, Hodder Headline, 2003

Archival material

Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission (SRG 698). Records comprising two record books of births, baptisms, marriage and deaths, census records, vaccination lists and daily ration book, spanning 1857-1966, on Microfilm.

Aboriginal families of the South East(OH 198). Oral History featuring 8 hours of biographical interviews with older members of Aboriginal families from the South East, focusing on childhood experiences, family and cultural traditions, and adult work experiences.

Audiovisual resources

Wormald, Jeanette, Acres of blue [sound recording], Loxton, Lindene Music, 1998