Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
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Category: Indigenous Australians
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
Not Just Black and White by Lesley Williams
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Category: Indigenous Australians
Lesley Williams is forced to leave Cherbourg Aboriginal reserve and her family at fifteen to work as a domestic servant. Apart from a bit of pocket money, Lesley never sees her wages - they are kept 'safe' for her and for countless others just like her. She is taught not to question her life, until desp ...Show more
Singing the Coast by Tony Perkins
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Category: Indigenous Australians
Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it is sung. These songs can be for all of us, where Aboriginal stories are overwritten with the grids of roads and towns. One coastal group's experience in mainta ...Show more
Aboriginal Place Names by Reed A W
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: Aboriginal library
A comprehensive collection of Aboriginal names from all over Australia, and their derivations. Thousands of place names are listed, each followed by the state it is found in and its meaning. There is also a dictionary that gives the Aboriginal translations for common English words.