Good Morning, Mr Sarra by Chris Sarra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
"When Chris Sarra arrived as the first Aboriginal principal of Cherbourg State School, it was a time of high hopes but low expectations in Indigenous education. Over six years, he transformed the school into a national success story. Along the way, he battled the media, the education system and a cultur ...Show more
No Longer a Wandering Spirit: Family and kin reclaiming the memory of Minang woman Bessie Flowers by Sharon Huebner, Ezzard Flowers
$39.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
Bessy Flowers is a hero of mine, and I’m very glad she’s at the centre of a book that features her images and writing, along with the remarkable journey to situate her in family and Country. - Kim Scott Kia Kia, Noogiting Wirren, Minang Yorga, Minang Boodja No longer a wandering spirit acknowledges t ...Show more
Children of the Dreamtime by Helen Baldwin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
For decades Helen Baldwin has been painting outback Australia and the Aboriginal people. Her travels have taken her throughout western New South Wales and to Alice Springs, Darwin, Yuendumu, Napperby, Mbunghara, Papunya, Kintore, Docker River, Areyonga, Maryvale and countless places in between. Through ...Show more
Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations by Brian Butler, John Bond
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
Brian Butler’s grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brian’s mother, was taken.Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, like Brian Butler’s, have been coping with the trauma of child removal for more than a century. Sorr ...Show more
The Good Country - The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia | Series: Australian History Ser.
Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other?In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a m ...Show more
Every Mother's Son Is Guilty : Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905 by Chris Owen; Patrick Dodson (Preface by)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
"This is a marvellous contribution by Chris Owen to the understanding of the role the Western Australian police force played in the colonial expansion into the Kimberley district of Western Australia."--Senator Patrick Dodson, Yawuru Elder ***Chris Owen provides a compelling account of policing in the K ...Show more
Aboriginal Mythology - An A-Z Spanning the History of Aboriginal Mythology from the Earliest Legends to the Present Day by Mudrooroo Nyoongah
$24.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
Aboriginals believe they have lived in Australia since the Dreamtime, the beginning of all creation, and archaeological evidence shows the land has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years. Over this time, Aboriginal culture has grown a rich variety of mythologies in hundreds of different languages ...Show more
MY PEOPLES SONGS How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania by Joel Stephen Birnie
$34.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
Tarenootairer (c.1806–58) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors. As with so many Indigenous women of her time, even today the historical record of her life remains a scant threa ...Show more
A Question of Colour: my journey to belonging by Patricia Lees
$22.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
'These two children have been in our Home in Townsville for more than two years, and in view of their very dark colouring, have not been assimilated into the white race. Every effort has been made to place them in a foster home without success because of their colour.' Queensland State Children's Depart ...Show more
Tjarany Roughtail (Kukatja & English) by Gracie Greene; Joe Tramacchi; Lucille Gill (Illustrator)
$17.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
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
Jack of Hearts QX11594: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Jackie Huggins, Ngaire Jarro
$27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
‘It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go beyond what we knew from our Mother’s stories of him? The past, present and future need to be spoken about and shared.’ — Jackie HugginsBorn an only child in No ...Show more