Man Called Yarra by Stan Yarramunua
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
oI'm a Wathaurong man. I'm an artist who draws on life in this big red and yellow and black country.oStan oYarrao Yarramunua- artist, musician, actor, social worker, businessman.From growing up in poverty in Swan Hill - and sometimes on the road, with his itinerant father - Yarra had a tumultuous and of ...Show more
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffensen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Bushfood
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including what's called 'cool burns', could restore our country. Fire Country o ...Show more
Tjarany Roughtail (Kukatja & English) by Gracie Greene; Joe Tramacchi; Lucille Gill (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: From 3 To 7
Tjarany Roughtail contains eight dreamtime stories from the Kukatja people of Western Australia s remote Kimberley Region. Each story is complemented by beautiful artworks painted by Aboriginal artist Lucille Gill that visually explain each story using traditional dot paintings. Told in English and Kuka ...Show more
Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney by Paul Irish
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip's arrival in Sydney in 1788. Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip a century as they disappear from the historical record ...Show more
Gagudju Man: the Environmental and Spiritual Philosophy of a Senior Traditional Owner, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia by Bill Neidjie
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Here, Bill Neidjie - manager and negotiator of the Bunitj Clan Estate, which forms part of Kakadu National Park, relives the past in order to give some meaningful structure to the future. And he attempts to help non-Aboriginal people understand the bond between Aborginial people and their traditionally ...Show more
The Outsiders Within: Telling Australia's Indigenous-Asian Story by Peta Stephenson
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Original work that tells a story about cross-cultural encounters that will be a revelation to many readers. It shows how the connections between Aborigines and Australians have continued for centuries. It has lots of striking illustrations, particularly of cultural expressions of the Aboriginal/Asian re ...Show more
NGAY JANIJIRR NGANK THIS IS MY WORD by WILLIAMS MAGDALENE
$18.99 AUD
Category: History
A poignant story told by Magdalene Williams of the Nyulnyul People. Although raised in the confines of Beagle Bay mission, she was constantly exposed to her traditional culture through her elders. Her account of the coming of the missionaries and the resultant destruction of law and culture are interwov ...Show more
We Won the VictoryAborigines and Outsiders on the North-west Coast of the Kimberley by Ian M. Crawford
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"We Won the Victory is a fascinating and engaging work of the history of a part of Australia where there has been contact by the Aboriginal people with many outsiders over the centuries. There have been many mutually positive contacts, and many negative over that time, and many battles were fought, some ...Show more
We, The Aborigines by Lockwood Douglas
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Stories of Aboriginal people culture, including Albert Namatjira. Tribes represented: Aranda , Djumindjung, Wailbri , Pitjentjarra Nongomeri , Iwaija , Jabu and Moola Boola Douglas Lockwood began writing books based on his own knowledge and experiences with the Aborigines of northern and central Austral ...Show more
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? by MCGEE-SIPPEL LORRAINE
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span decades and lead her to search for her birth family. In the historic climate of the Rudd government's Apology, McGee-Sippel aligns herself with t ...Show more