After Before Time by Robbi Neal
$27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to the other end of mainland Australia to a remote Aboriginal community. They planned to stay for twelve months. Seven years later, they are ...Show more
Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia by Bruce Pascoe
$16.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
This updated edition of The Little Red Yellow Black Book is an authoritative introduction to Indigenous Australia. It includes real-life case studies and covers history, culture, arts, sport, languages, population, health, participation in education and the workforce, governance, resistance and reconcil ...Show more
I-Tjuma - Ngaanyatjarra Stories from the Western Desert of Central Australia by Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis (Editor); Inge Kral (Editor); Jennifer Green (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Between 2012 and 2019 Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral and Jennifer Green worked together to make an enduring record of endangered verbal arts in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands communities of Western Australia. They filmed traditional Ngaanyatjarra tjinytjatjunku or mirlpa (telling stories while drawing in ...Show more
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara by Ian White (Compiled by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara offers a unique perspective on the life and making of this Western Arnhem clever man or marrkidjbu.Born at the end of the 19th Century when the Western world had scarcely touched Arnhem Land, Paddy Compass Namadbara acted as a healer for his countrymen and ...Show more
Black, White and Exempt - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lives under Exemption by Lucinda Aberdeen; Jennifer Jones
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
In 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and was granted a certificate of exemption. Exemption gave her legal freedoms denied to other Indigenous Australians at that time: she could travel freely, open a bank account, and live and work where she wanted. In the eye ...Show more
The First Peoples of Melbourne, Port Phillip and Central Victoria: The Eastern Kulin by Gary Presland
$24.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
This is the only up-to-date book available about the Eastern Kulin peoples. The Kulin nation lived around Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River valley, and their territory stretched as far north as the Murray River at Echuca. Gary Presland looks at the Eastern Kulin peoples from before European invasion ...Show more
Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in the early nineteenth century. These Indigenous travellers, often referred to as ‘guide’s’, ‘native aides’, or ‘intermediaries’ have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: ...Show more
Yira Boornak Nyininy (Noongar & English) by Kim Scott, Hazel Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project
Left stranded in a tree by his wife, a Noongar man has to rely on his Wadjela friend to help him back down. Yira Boornak Nyininy is a story of forgiveness and friendship. This story comes from the wise and ancient language of the First People of the Western Australian south coast, the Noongar people. In ...Show more
The Stolen Children -Their Stories by CARMEL BIRD (ed)
$23.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Following the unprecedented demand for the Report on the stolen children which was published by The Human Rights and Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (HEROC) and retailed at $60.00, here are extracts from the Report which are mostly comprised of the actual stories told by the stolen generations ...Show more
Grog War by Alexis Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award‑winning author Alexis Wright.First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions, is more relevant now than ever. A searing account of what transpire ...Show more
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forest River Massacre by Kate Auty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920s In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people at Forrest River in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence ...Show more
Dear Son: Letters and Reflections from First Nations Fathers and Sons by Thomas Mayo
$36.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Dear Son shares heartfelt letters written by First Nations men about life, masculinity, love, culture and racism. Along with his own vivid and poignant prose and poetry, author and editor Thomas Mayor invites 13 contributors to write a letter to their son, father or nephew, bringing together a range of ...Show more