Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: Truth by Marcia Langton, James Waghorne, Ross L Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
Melbourne's oldest university confronts its long, complex and troubled relationship with the Indigenous people of Australia Dhoombak Goobgoowana acknowledges and publicly addresses the long, complex and troubled relationship between the Indigenous people of Australia and the University of Melbourne. It ...Show more
Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy (eds)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broade ...Show more
Law: The Way of the Ancestors (First Knowledges) by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the keys to resilient, caring communities and a life in balance with nature. Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn show how Indigenous law has ...Show more
Shades of Me: My Many Lives Through Many Dreamings by Mel Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
Melinda Brown (Ngunnawal woman) shares the story of discovering her heritage and how the journey to understand her culture gave her the strength to find her place in the world. Mel Brown is an Australian Aboriginal Ngunnawal woman. This is her story. Growing up white, Mel always felt that there ...Show more
First Knowledges Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...Show more
Remote as Ever: The Aboriginal Struggle for Autonomy in Australia's Western Desert by David Scrimgeour
$39.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
In Remote as Ever, David Scrimgeour tells the story of his working life as a doctor in isolated communities in Australia's Western Desert in the late 1970s. Being involved in the Homelands movement and the Aboriginal community-controlled health campaign gave him significant insight into the strength of ...Show more
White Fella - Black Fella - Early European Explorers and Their Engagement with Australian Aborigines by Wilson McOrist
$49.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
The early European explorers of Australia, from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s, narrated the bewilderment, misunderstandings, affection, and hostility that arose in their encounters with the Indigenous peoples. Of their reports, many are little known today. They are, however, culturally revealing and ...Show more
First Knowledges Plants: Past, Present and Future by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
Tears of Strangers: The extraordinary powerful family story that reckons with the legacy of Australia's history from award-winning journalist and author of Talking To My Country by Stan Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
Where do I belong? Who am I? The blood of my fathers links me to a much older place and time. I've walked in the footprints of my ancestors: I've sat by the riverbank at night and imagined them around me. I am all that they have made me. Journalist Stan Grant was born in 1963, a son of the Wiradjuri ...Show more
They Rescued Us - Aboriginal Heroes on Country by Fred Cahir
$35.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australia
This book acknowledges the rescues of thousands of colonists by Aboriginal people from life threatening situations such as bush fires, floods, shipwrecks and being lost in the bush. It pays tribute to their knowledge, mercy and courage they showed by freely rescuing the invaders who sought to occupy the ...Show more