Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

Rare title on subject; a travellers guide to Aboriginal Australia; state-by-state guide to their art, land and culture; whether you want reconciliation on a better understanding this guide will help.

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.

This collection of short stories tell of Trev Brown's time as a teacher at the Angurugu School on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius -- nobody's land, free to be taken. True Tracks paves the way for the respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous knowledges and cultures. Using real-world cases and personal stories, Meriam/Wuthathi lawyer Dr Terri Janke draws on twenty years of pr...

The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian Aborigine'. The name of Truganini is vaguely familiar to most Australians as 'the last of her race'. She has become an international icon for a monumental tragedy: the extinction of the original people...

Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stat...

A traditional Waripiri Dreaming narrative, belonging to Henry Cook Jakamarra from the Tanami Desert. It tells the story of two Wallaby Creator-Beings who crisscross the country, bringing many sacred sites into existence. 5-8 yrs.

A collection of stories, reflections and hopes about language revival in Australian Aboriginal communities extracted from a series of interviews carried out during 2009-2010.