Woggheeguy - Australian Aboriginal Legends by Catherine Stow (Translator, Transcribed by, Editor)
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Category: Indigenous
First published in 1930, these tales were collected by Catherine Stow (K. Langloh Parker), most of these tales were collected by the author from Aboriginals at Bangate Station, in New South Wales from 1896-1898, with two being sent to the author from Moruya and one learnt from a drover in the Northern T ...Show more
Jarrampa by Marshia Cook
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Category: Indigenous
Jarrampa are yabbies - they are very tasty to eat but a challenge to catch because of those claws. One old woman had a clever way of catching them - she put meat between her toes before putting her feet into the billabong. When the crabs started nibbling at the meat, she quickly wrapped her feet and the ...Show more
Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations by Brian Butler, John Bond
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Category: Indigenous
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
Speaking My Mind by WARREN MUNDINE
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Category: Indigenous
After undergoing heart surgery in 2012 and facing his own mortality, Warren Mundine didn't feel he had time to pussyfoot around anymore. He realised he mightn't get another chance to say what he thought. By that time in his life he had already delivered dozens of speeches and written numerous newspaper ...Show more
Talking Sideways by Malcolm Reg; McKinnon Dodd
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Category: Indigenous
'That's the way it is with us mob. We were brought up to talk kind of sideways. That's the respectful, true Aboriginal way.' Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has ...Show more
Story about Cat and Mouse: Stori bla brutbrut en bujigat by Carol Robertson
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Category: Indigenous
This is a story about Cat and Mouse. Mouse eats insects, like grasshopper. Cat eats small birds, lizards, snakes and also mice. One night, Cat and Mouse are both very hungry and go out hunting for food and unexpectedly encounter each other. They both get a terrible fright, but what happens next? This bo ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
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Category: Indigenous
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cel ...Show more
The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817 by Dr Stephen Gapps
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Category: Indigenous
The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians--described as "this constant sort of war" by one early colonist--around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative bo ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land : An Aboriginal History by Murray Johnson; Ian McFarlane
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Category: Indigenous
The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle against almost insurmountable odds is one worthy of respect and admiration, not to mention serious attention. This broad-rangin ...Show more
The Red Chief by Ion Idriess
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Category: Indigenous
The Aboriginal legend of the Red Kangaroo, Cumbo Gunerah (1680-1745), who as a result of his bravery becomes leader of the Gunnedah tribe. The story originated from Stan Ewing's diary who spoke to King Bungaree (1780-1830), the last Aboriginal chief of the Gunnedah tribe in New South Wales.
Amnesia Road by Stegemann, Luke
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Category: Indigenous
'At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagreement about how to read the story of the past, about who should write or speak it, and what parts of it should be written or spoken about at all.'Amnesia Road is a compelling literary examination of historic violence in rural areas o ...Show more
Dear Son: Letters and Reflections from First Nations Fathers and Sons by Thomas Mayo
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Category: Indigenous
Dear Son shares heartfelt letters written by First Nations men about life, masculinity, love, culture and racism. Along with his own vivid and poignant prose and poetry, author and editor Thomas Mayor invites 13 contributors to write a letter to their son, father or nephew, bringing together a range of ...Show more