Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling People and Environment by Matthew Colloff
$26.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
'Compelling, multifarious and essential.'- Don Watson'Drink in its wisdom.'- Andrew Leigh MPWINNER OF 2021 NSW PREMIER'S HISTORY AWARDOn this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them.If we look afresh at our history through the land we liv ...Show more
Kunyi by Kunyi June Anne McInerney
$27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Age range 9+These are my stories from a dry remote place, where growing up was very different for what children know today.Kunyi June Anne McInerney was just four years old when she and three of her siblings were taken from their family to the Oodnadatta Children’s Home in South Australia in the 1960s.T ...Show more
Sun and Moon by Ella Bancroft
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Buhwi Bira is a warrior, and his sister Baribun is a dreamer. With very different personalities, can brother and sister work together? A gorgeous story about the power of sibling bonds from Ella Noah Bancroft and Bronwyn Bancroft. A gorgeous story about the power of sibling bonds from Ella Noah Bancro ...Show more
Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers by Philip Jones
$49.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Ochre and Rust offers a fresh perspective on frontier relations between Australian Aboriginal people and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curiosity between collectors and those indigenous people who piqued or responded to their int ...Show more
Aboriginal Stories Of Australia by Reed A W
$26.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
A wealth of poetic and imaginative tales from Aboriginal cultural heritage.Aboriginal Stories presents a collection of myths and legends gathered from various sources, representing the rich and diverse tapestry of beliefs of Aboriginal people throughout Australia. Tales range from creation myths and leg ...Show more
Aboriginal Myths - Tales of Dreamtime by Reed A W
$22.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Aboriginal Library
A collection of stories exploring dreamtime myths through ancient images, such as the Rainbow Snake, the discovery of fire, and the first man and woman. Divided into three sections, The Great Father, Totemic Ancestors and Creation Myths, it seeks to provide an insight into Aboriginal culture.
Aboriginal Stories of Australia by Reed A W
$22.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
A collection of traditional Aboriginal tales, myths and legends. Learn how Yhi the sun goddess introduced life to the world, why the emu cannot fly and how the kangaroo got its tail. This new edition includes a glossary, giving the English translation for many Aboriginal words used in the text.
Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories): Narratives of Rock Art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria by Liam M. Brady, John Bradley, Amanda Kearney
$50.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Advances in Australasian Archaeology Ser.
"...ngabaya painted all this, you know when we were kids we would come here and look and sometimes the paintings would change, they were always changing." Annie a-Karrakayny Fully illustrated, Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories) draws on a combined 70+ years of collaborative research involving Yanyuwa Elde ...Show more
Australia's Original Languages: An introduction by R. M. W. Dixon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: An Introduction
An introduction to the languages of Aboriginal Australia that explains their distinctive features accessibly for readers who have no previous experience with learning another language, and shows how language reflects traditional culture. 'A must read for all who would like to understand the languages a ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
$34.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
'Me Write Myself' - The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 by Leonie Stevens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Australian History Ser.
Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian, and world, history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed ...Show more
Luurnpa, The Magical Kingfisher by Christine Nicholls (editor), Bai Bai Napangarti
$16.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Dreaming Narrative Ser.
This is a traditional Dreaming narrative, belonging to Bai Bai Napangarti from the Balgo Hills region of Western Australia. It tells the story of Luurnpa, who saves the Kukatja people from dying of thirst by showing them his magic rock hole full of water.