Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
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
Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Islander People by Leah Lui-Chivizhe
39.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
A celebration of the extraordinary turtle shell masks of the Torres StraitMasked Histories celebrates the remarkable Torres Strait Islander turtle shell masks that were taken or traded by Europeans throughout the nineteenth century. Displayed as curiosities or art in museums and galleries around the wor ...Show more
A Record in Bone Exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Bone and Tooth Artefacts by Michelle C. Langley
54.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
Bone and tooth tools and ornaments have been made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for at least 46,000 years, using some of the oldest technologies in the world. Despite their beauty, sophistication and ubiquity, archaeologists and other researchers have overwhelmingly focused on the sto ...Show more
Edward Koiki Mabo: His Life & Struggle for Land Rights (New Edition) by Noel Loos, Koiki Mabo
26.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
Here, largely in his own words, is the incredible story of Edward Koiki Mabo, from his childhood on the Island of Mer through to his struggle within the union cause and the black rights movement. Originally published by UQP in 1996, this new edition has been updated by Mabo's long-time friend historian ...Show more
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World by Robert Kenny
32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
Written in a distinctively Australian voice, this remarkable account explores the conversion of a Wotjubaluk Aboriginal youth to Christianity in 1860. Through Nathanael Pepper's conversion, this record conducts a major reappraisal of the nature of Aboriginal and European relations in the first decades o ...Show more
Tiwi Story - Turning History Downside Up by Mavis Kerinaiua, Laura Rademaker
39.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
Tiwi people have plenty to be proud of. This little tropical island community has more than its fair share of surprising stories that turn ideas of Australian history upside down.The Tiwi claim the honour of having defeated a global superpower. When the world’s most powerful navy attempted to settle and ...Show more
Mai's Story - My Journey from the Bush to the City by Mai Katona
32.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
Mai, a child from the Stolen Generation, was taken away at the age of ten from the loving care of her Uncle and Aunt, who lived in Pine Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia. She was institutionalised at the Retta Dixon Home near Darwin until she planned her own further education by secretly enro ...Show more
The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars by Duane Hamacher
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of ...Show more
Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance by Anna Haebich
29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Nyungar people of Western Australia strategically and courageously adapted their rich performance culture to survive the catastrophe that engulfed t ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
45.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more
What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney by Dennis Foley, Peter Read
35.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
What the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present.Dennis, the grandson ofClarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai-mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore ...Show more
Writing in the Sand by Matt Garrick
45.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction
Words are easy, words are cheap / Much cheaper than our priceless land / But promises can disappear / Just like writing in the sand -- From Yothu Yindi's 1992 ARIA Song of the Year, 'Treaty' Sometimes a musical revolution can explode from the most unlikely of places. Long before they were ARIA Hall of F ...Show more