SOMEONE ELSE'S COUNTRY by DOCKER PETER
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
On a remote cattle station, a small boy begins a profound journey into an Australia few whitefellas know...This is a journey into another place - a genuine meeting ground for Black and White Australia, a place built on deep personal engagement and understanding. A fearless, funny and profoundly moving A ...Show more
Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subseque ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wo ...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
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate by Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Da ...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
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
Australia: William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Life by Harry Allen
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led an expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal life. Blandowski explores the potential of images to por ...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
Australia : The Vatican Museum's Indigenous Collection by Katherine Aigner
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
From the ancient Etruscans and Romans, to the Renaissance masters of Michelangelo and Raphael, the Vatican Museums represent an aspect of the history of humanity through art. The Indigenous Australian collection is a little known and unexplored part of that story. Being amongst some of the earliest know ...Show more