Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

Look into these lush green bushes. We might find something... There is alyurr! Kakkak Kapindi, my mother's mother, told us alyurr are the Lightning people's children. When the rains begin, they come out of the soil. As they grow, they shed their skins and their bright colours are revealed. Soon t...

Follow the authors as they walk through the bush of northern Australia following the seasonal calendar of the Gundjeihmi-speaking people of Kakadu. Closely observe the birds, plants and animals that inhabit this unique environment, through an understanding of the six Aboriginal seasons and their ...

Collection of narratives concerning the lives of some senior Warlpiri women and the impact of European settlement. B/W illus.

Douglas Lockwood began writing books based on his own knowledge and experiences with the Aborigines of northern and central Australia in the late 1950s. Included in this book are stories of Aboriginal people &and culture, including Albert Namatjira. Some of the tribes represented include: Aranda,...

The Welcome to Country Handbook by Professor Marcia Langton is your accessible introduction to First Nations Peoples, histories and cultures. Drawn from the book Welcome to Country, this guide is essential reading for every Australian, and an excellent resource for cultural awareness training in ...

Shows the making of a woomera or spear thrower by two Pintupi men of the Lake MacDonald area, using traditional techniques with stone tools. Footage was originally shot in 1970.

The passage of land rights laws in New South Wales in 1983 saw political intrigue, deception and disappointment as well as unprecedented engagement by Aboriginal citizens and their supporters. How could a sympathetic NSW State Government redress the effects of two hundred years of colonisation in...

What is Aboriginal art? Simply written and fully illustrated; ideal for the student, tourist, or anybody interested in this subject.

A ground-breaking graphic novel sharing the stories of Yindjibarndi Creation-times in an immediate and engaging way for a contemporary audience. Yindjibarndi believe all creation is written in our landscape and was sung long ago, filling our Ngurra (Country) with sacred meanings and deep religiou...

This richly illustrated account of Cape York activist Jean George Awumpun, written from the personal perspective of family, is a rare illustration of the inseparable bonds of ancestry and country.

On the bank of a great river, six Indigenous women gather: a community leader, a city girl, a niece with a bucketload of issues, a woman from a mission town, a park ranger, and the curator of a museum's Indigenous unit. These women are connected by kinship, but their worlds are far apart, separat...

This series presents stories of four different Aboriginal groups each from a different environment. History of the community, its traditional culture, the status of the clan today and what the future might hold. This is about Iris Clayton and her clan the Wiradjuri from the Murrumbidgee River are...

Autobiography of Banjo Clarke, an elder of the Kirrae Whurrong, a people of the Gunditjmara nation. Born in 1922 he has experienced racism, cruelty and loss of loved ones.

From a falling star to a lonely whale, an entertaining lizard to an enterprising penguin, these Indigenous stories are full of wonder, adventure and enduring friendships. Told in the style of traditional teaching stories, these animal tales take young readers on adventures of self-discovery and f...

Words to Sing the World Alive celebrates First Nations languages from across the continent. Forty First Nation writers and thinkers, journalists and lawyers, artists and astronomers come together to reveal their favourite and significant words. Words that evoke the power of childhood and the wond...

This text is written for health professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing social and emotional wellbeing issues and mental health conditions. It provides information on the issues influencing mental health, good mental health practice, and strategies for...

Draws on Diamond's near five decades in New Guinea as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians and other cultures, exploring how tribal peoples approach essential human problems.

A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedic Dictionary, by John Bradley and Yanyuwa Families, is a substantial two-volume work that will serve as a rich, authoritative repository of cultural and linguistic knowledge for, and about, the Yanyuwa – Saltwater people from coastal and island country near Borroloola, North...

"Yagan Square in Central Perth recognises Yagan, the son of Midgegooroo, the leader of the Beeliar tribe, a territory on the southern side of the Canning River and within the greater metropolitan area. He was born about 1800 but remembered only for his brief interaction with the British settlers ...

This atlas has three parts: maps and diagrams, a one hundred year history of the Crocodile Islands and an illustrated dictionary.

"'Yidaki' or didgeridoo is one of the oldest wind instruments in the world. Djalu Gurruwiwi is a full blood Aboriginal Elder from Gove in the North East Arnhem Land and is the spiritual guardian of this ancient musical instrument. The yidaki is used for sacred Aboriginal Corroboree's and is only ...

In 1946–47 the senior ceremonial leaders of the Yirrkala region produced 365 vibrant crayon drawings on paper for the anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Held by the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, the works have never been shown in any great number....