Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance: A True Story by Banjo Woorunmurra, Howard Pedersen
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
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Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja by Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Full of extraordinary images of the landscape, ...Show more
The Australian Aboriginal by Herbert Basedow
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The Australian Aboriginal, originally written in 1925, describes the ceremonial and day-to-day lives of traditional Aboriginal people, as witnessed by Herbert Basedow, who from 1903 travelled the most remote areas of Australia. This book is a reissued edition with a new forward by David M. Welch and man ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 t ...Show more
Telling: Stories of Resilience from Nairm Marr Djambana by Nairm Marr Djambana Aboriginal Corporation
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Our Songlines continue through our lived experiences. The strength, resilience, hope and love is heard and felt deeply within each of these stories. Our Elders share their culture and wisdom through their knowledge. We are forever grateful.’ — Kutcha Edwards The 12 short life stories in Telling are gr ...Show more
You Call it Desert - We Used to Live There. by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
This rare glimpse of life in the Great Sandy Desert exploresthe resourcefulness and ingenuity of the Walmajarri people, Australia s desert dwellers. A vibrant blend of personal recollection, history, Aboriginal art, and Australian indigenous studies, this survey will shed light on the lives of a scarcel ...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
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Men's Business Women's Business by Hannah Rachel Bell
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Beautiful stories of life in Australian Aboriginal society--where gender influences every aspect of existence--that show a new way to find happiness in our modern Western culture.