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Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests ...Show more
Keeping The Wanjinas Fresh
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Keeping the Wanjinas Fresh: Sam Woolagoodja and the Enduring Power of Lalai is the story of the people of the Wanjinas and their unbroken living cosmology of Lalai- the Dreaming- manifested most memorably in the dazzling giant Wanjina designed by Donny Woolagoodja for the opening ceremony of the Sydney ...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: Art
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
Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. T ...Show more
Yinti, Desert Child (Yinti #1) by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: Yinti Ser.
Age range 9 - 12 The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows Yinti's development from a young bushie to a competent station worker and adult. Yinti is a traditional Walmajarri Aboriginal boy growing up Great Sandy Desert in the remote North West of ...Show more
Yinti, Desert Dog (Yinti #2) by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: Yinti
Age range 9 - 12 The second book in the Yinti series. Yinti and the hunting dingo, Spinifex, walk out of the desert together and Yinti sees a white man for the first time: `Look at that kartiya,' whispered Yinti, giggling. `You can see the blood through his skin!' When the dingo, Spinifex, is taken from ...Show more
Last Truck Out by LOCKYER Betty
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
WWII, 1942 - Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 12 ...Show more
On the Way to Nana's by Frances Haji-Ali; Lindsay Haji-Ali; David Hardy (Illustrator)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children
Age range 4 to 8 Frances and Lindsay Haji-Ali take us counting backwards from FIFTEEN to ONE on this spectactular journey in the far north of WA. When Frances and Lindsay lived with their family in Broome, they often set out to visit Nana in the tiny outback town of Wyndham over 1,000km north. These roa ...Show more
Raparapa: Stories from the Fitzroy River Drovers by Paul Marshall
$32.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Nine Kimberley Aboriginal stockmen tell their stories — and each one reflects the hard slog of their lives, particularly the tough and often abusive living and working conditions. These men worked seven days a week, all-year-round for payment of tobacco, flour, tea, blankets and, sometimes, clothing. He ...Show more
Journey Into Dreamtime by Munya Andrews
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
This book invites you to to step into the magical world of Aboriginal Dreamtime and to share in the world's oldest living culture - its ancient knowledge and spiritual wisdom. Inside are Dreamtime concepts that everyone can understand. Find out why the Rainbow Snake is called by that name and why it is ...Show more
Brother Moon by Maree McCarthy Yoelu
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children
"Great-Grandpa Liman lives in a small house by the sea. There are no lights — just stars as far as the eye can see." Brother Moon is a powerful story lovingly told by a great-grandfather to his great-grandson. Beneath the dark sky of the Northern Territory, Hippy-Boy is captivated when Great-Grandpa Lim ...Show more
Two Cultures, One Story by Robert Isaacs
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'I stood at the school gates with nothing but the clothes on my back. I had no money, no family, no home — nothing to show for the past 16 years except my cheap cardboard suitcase and a reasonable grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic … I didn't know what I was going to do next, but I knew that whate ...Show more
