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 Olympics It is also the story of Sam Woolagoodja, who was responsible for repainting the sacred Wanjinas in many of the rock shelters that dot the Kimberley landscape, and was among the first to paint the sacred stories on bark and board for Worrorra children living far from their homelands   ...Show more

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe

$19.99 AUD

Category: History

JOE SKYRNSKI, CO-FOUNDER CHAMP EQUITY: 'A must read for every Australian! Drawn from the diaries of European explorers, it comprehensively explodes the self-serving myth we perpetrated about Terra Nullius, that the first Australians were hunter-gatherer savages with no traits of civilisation. Pascoe cle arly documents extensive contemporary evidence to the contrary'  'Dark Emu injects a profound authenticity into the conversation about how we Australians understand our continent ... [It is] essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Australia once was, or what it might yet be if we heed the lessons of long and sophisticated human occupation.' Judges for 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating, and storing -- behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence in Dark Emu comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources. Bruce's comments on his book compared to Gammage's: " My book is about food production, housing construction and clothing, whereas Gammage was interested in the appearance of the country at contact. [Gammage] doesn't contest hunter gatherer labels either, whereas that is at the centre of my argument."   ...Show more

Bakir and Bi by Jillian Boyd

$4.99 AUD

Category: Children

Based on a Torres Strait Islander creation story with illustrations by 18-year-old Tori-Jay Mordey. Bakir (rock) and Mar (storm bird) live on a remote island called Egur with their two young children. While fishing on the beach Bakir comes across a very special pelican (Bakirs totem is a pelican) named Bi. A famine occurs, and life on the island is no longer harmonious. One day Bakir and Bi disappear and Mar and the children are forced to make the journey to another island by canoe ...and so begins the adventure. There are supernatural themes, totemic connections and kinship relationships and the island names are imaginary as are the characters. The moral of the story is that everyone has a destiny and a purpose in life. ...Show more

The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe: A History of Aboriginal Involvement with the World Game by John Maynard; Gordon Briscoe (Foreword by)

$15.99 AUD

Category: General

A first in sporting literature, "The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe" is the largely untold story of Aboriginal involvement with the world game. The acceptance that Aboriginal players found within the post-World War II migrant communities had a profound impact on their lives. The multicultural environment of Au stralian soccer provided them with a haven from the prejudice and racism of wider Australian society. Interweaving personal stories and extensive research with links to the broader Indigenous world community, this book is a celebration of the extraordinary journey taken by Aboriginal sportsmen and women to forge the way ahead for the present crop of talented soccer players. ...Show more

The Cowboy Frog by Hilton Laurel

$6.95 AUD

Category: Children | Series: Uupababa Ser.

When only nine years old, Hylton Laurel wrote and illustrated this story about the cocky, heroic frog who becomes a legend of the Noonkanbah Crossing. Hylton is from Millijidee, a tiny, remote community in the WA Kimberley. Ages 5+.

Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance: A True Story by Banjo Woorunmurra; Howard Pedersen

$24.99 AUD

Category: History

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Ruby Moonlight (Prizewinner NSW Premier's Awards 2013 - Poetry + Book of the Year) by Ali Cobby Eckermann

$22.99 AUD

Category: General

Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a te nse unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons. Winner of the 2012 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature ...Show more

From Bradshaw to Wandjina Australian Aboriginal Culture Series No. 12: Aboriginal Paintings of the Kimberley, Western Australia by David Welch

$31.99 AUD

Category: Rock Art

A description of Kimberley rock art, focusing on Bradshaw and Wandjina paintings. Contains 148 photographs, drawings and charts.

Blank Book Aboriginal Art Various by Various (selected by the Federation of Children's Book Groups)

$12.99 AUD

Category: General

ONCE IN BROOME by DEMIN

$24.99 AUD

Category: General

In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 1950s.

Barddabardda Wodjenangorddee We're Telling All Of You by Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation

$49.99 AUD

Category: History

Staircase to the Moon by Bronwyn Houston

$19.99 AUD

Category: Children

How does a young girl with a yearning for adventure get to the moon? Why, she climbs the staircase of course! In this book, a young girl and her grandfather sneak away from home one night in a bid to climb the staircase to the moon.