Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

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...

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.

Traditional Aboriginal storytelling teaches us about the animal world and the spiritual bond shared between the Aboriginal people and nature.

A fascinating glimpse of Aboriginal spiritual life.

A compilation of Aboriginal words and names in use throughout Australia. The list provides information on the origin and location of each word, developing an understanding of Aboriginal language and culture. The words are arranged in both English and Aboriginal lists in a dictionary format.

Documents the relationship between settlers and Aboriginals in Western Australia.

Review: "This volume examines the impact of racist government legislation and policies upon the indigenous people of Australia over the last 200 years. Pattel-Gray contends that racism in Australia is rooted in the long and corrupt relationship between government and church. The persistence of ra...

2nd part of autobiographical trilogy; moves on from her childhood in Townsville to the big wide world of Sydney during the 70s including her major period of activism in Aboriginal politics, for which she is most remembered today.

An introduction to the vast world of traditional Aboriginal art: rock engravings, cave and bark paintings, docorative and symbolic designs both sacred and secular.

Kenny was barely nineteen years old, a wide-eyed Aboriginal kid from the bush, when he left Australia for a tour of duty in Vietnam. This book takes us from the deserts of Central Australia to the fleshpots of Sydney and Saigon before Kenny finally makes his way to the "sharp" end of the conflict...

Phyllis Kaberry was one of an early, and largely forgotten group of women anthropologists in Australia. Her pioneering field work, later published as Aboriginal Women : sacred and profane (1939), led to a career in London, where she died in 1977. Sandy Toussaint undertook field work in some of th...

In this collection of photos., four Aboriginal elders reveal meanings preserved by the oldest figurative paintings in north Western Australia, known as Gwion Gwion. This ancient rock art illustrates a distinct society with elaborate dress and with ceremony and dress that is still celebrated.

Reference work to Australian indigenous art. Written in collaboration with Aboriginal communities.

The work of three Aboriginal poets, who speak of the common experiences to Aboriginal peoples, as well as of love, life and loss. Features an established poet, joined by two new poets.

A timely book that encompasses the whole history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing from the multiplicity of shelters used in pre-invasion times to the extraordinary cottages built by Victorian missionaries through to the dreaded children's dormitory and the compound with its terror...

Combines the stories of three aboriginal people, who were removed from their families, and interviews with Australian historians Marcia Langton and Henry Reynolds. Describes the experiences of Bobby Randall, Cleonie Quayle and Daisy Howard and the impact their separation from their families has...

In this provocative analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism, the author applies academic training and cultural knowledge in revealing the invisible position of power and privilege in feminist practice. This is a uniquely Australian contribution to the increasing global discourse on femin...

Subject: Short stories, poems, legends, song lyrics , essays by West. Aust. Aboriginals.

Examines the controversial question of genocide in Australian history.

Celebrates the successes of 60 young Indigenous Australians from all walks of life.

Account of a people and a Kimberley region as well as an Aboriginal author raised at the Kalumburu Mission.

Examines the situation of Aboriginal women who lived on the Catholic missions of Beagle Bay and Kalumburu, explores the effects of European colonization on these women, and the politics of race, gender and class in the colonizing process.