Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

At the outbreak of war in August 1914, thousands of men from across the nation flocked to recruiting centres to sign up to serve in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). This figure includes approximately 1,200 Aboriginal people. The lives of these men as civilians were often fraught with difficul...

The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Aboriginal history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime to the first contact between Europeans and Indigenous Australians, through to the Uluru Statement, it offers an insi...

Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected w...

A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. No one has lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who he...

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this...

Douglas was born to Indigenous parents and, as an infant, was the sole survivor of a cruel massacre in northern Queensland. As an adult, he was a charismatic speaker on Aboriginal rights, but spoke with a distinct Scottish burr. Why was this so? He was rescued by a kindly Scottish immigrant and b...

Nine Kimberley Aboriginal stockmen tell their stories -- and each one reflects the hard slog of their lives, particularly the tough and often abusive living and working conditions. These men worked seven days a week, all-year-round for payment of tobacco, flour, tea, blankets and, sometimes, clot...

Breaking the Silence recovers the conflicted politics of Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century. From 1905, when the report of the controversial Roth Royal Commission in Western Australia was made known to the public, to the eve of World War II, the condition, status and...

Butcher Joe Nangan was one of those charismatic people who exercised a most profound impact on all who met him. Having spent his life acquiring the ritual knowledge and lore, not only of his own Nyikina and Walmajarri forbears but also that pertaining to the lands of his neighbours, Nangan believ...

This is a Mixed Relations view of Australian history that breaks the bounds of narrow domesticity. The author looks at the interactions of indigenous people with Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Malays and Afghans.

Documents the relationship between settlers and Aboriginals in Western Australia.

Making extensive and imaginative use of oral resources and hitherto unseen documents, Sort of a Place Like Home paints a vivid and intimate picture of the life experience of thousands of Aboriginal people at the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia.

Tells of the vital role that the Aboriginal people played in the establishment, and continue to play in the operation of the Kimberley pastoral industry. It tells of their life and work on the stations, their relationships with the European pastoralists, and of their struggle to remain on their l...

"... the story of Minyjun (Monty Hale), a senior Ngulipartu man from the Pilbara region of Western Australia."--Back cover.

Introduces the Aboriginal people of the Kimberley and their 60,000-year-old culture.

Australian Aboriginals taught themselves thousands of years ago how to build a sustainable society in our fragile landscape. In a unique collaboration, a Swedish knowledge management professor finds out from an Aboriginal cultural custodian how they did it, and what we can learn from them.

Retelling of an Aboriginal legend from the Kimberley region.

Surveys the great variety of Australian Aboriginal art thematically and contextually, showing the interrelationship between body painting, dance, the decoration of weapons and utensils and painting on bark, board and canvas.

Summary : 7 I/S; Aboriginal legends and tales; Class no. 398.2099.

Noongar Bush Medicine provides for the first time comprehensive information on the the medicinal plants that were used by Aboriginal people of the south-west of Western Australia before European settlement. The book is a guide to how to use plants for alternative treatments and protection from co...