It Is No Secret: The Story of a Stolen Child by Donna Meehan
$21.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
With a sudden jerk, squealing of brakes and a loud puff of the steam engine, the train shunted forward... At the age of five, Donna was taken away from her natural family and sent to a foster family in Newcastle. In this book, she reflects on her childhood memories and recalls her struggle with her iden ...Show more
The Other Side of the Frontier by Henry Reynolds
$19.75 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Reading Level: very good
The Shield and the Spear: The Kimberley Land Council by Joe Fox
$59.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
‘... you need an organisation like the KLC to be your shield and spear, to be able to cut through the bureaucracy to make change. To be able to protect things that are important to Aboriginal people in this region.’ Wayne Bergmann, former CEO of the KLCIn April 1978 leaders from Aboriginal Communities a ...Show more
Living in Hope by Frank Byrne; Frances Coughlan; Gerard Waterford
$15.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Book one in the Inland Writers-short reads from the Centre of Australia. The killing times were barely over in the Kimberley. What I knew, even as a small boy, was that no-one argued with a whitefella. People talked in whispers. I was still so small. This is the story of the early years of my life. The ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking - The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946-1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically-important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
Dwoort Baal Kaat (Noongar & English) by Kim Scott; Russell Nelly; Helen Hall (Illustrator); Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Staff (Retold by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Ser.
Koora, Noongar keny dwoort boolarang. Baalang Ngoonang dwoort. Baal djerabiny dwoortang daatjak ngardanginy. / One day a long time ago, one of our people went hunting. He had his own as well as his brother's dogs and he thought with so much help he'd easily catch a lot of tucker. / A man goes hunting fo ...Show more
Kulata Tjuta by Art Gallery of SA
$44.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Kulata Tjuta is both a celebration of contemporary Anangu art and an exquisite record of a landmark European exhibition of works from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara(APY) Lands of South Australia. Produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia for its first international Tarnanthi exhibition, ...Show more
So Far, So Good: On connection, loss, laughter and the Torres Strait by Aaron Fa'Aoso
$32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
'I am a descendant of the Samu and Koedal clans of Sabai Island. My people are warriors, but we are storytellers too.' On his long path to success from aspiring professional footballer to actor, director and producer for every opportunity Aaron Fa'Aoso had, there were setbacks and heartache.He was six w ...Show more
Ngirramanujuwal: The Art and Country of Jimmy Pike by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Studies (AIATSIS)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Ngirramanujuwal is one who adds colour.Walmajarri man Jimmy Pike (c. 1940–2002) manifests colour as strokes of ink on paper: the saturated hues of the desert sky at dusk, and the glimmers of the sun on the water’s surface. His vivid and exceptional drawing, painting and printing skills reveal the desert ...Show more