Growing up Wiradjuri by Heiss, Anita
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' — Dr. Anita Heiss, Ed.Growing up Wiradjuri is a collection of personal stories by Wiradjuri Elders. The writers are Uncles and Aunt ...Show more
Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues (2nd Edition) by Thomas Mayo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo gets behind the politics and legal speak to explain why the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to all Australians. Australia is set to vote on a refer ...Show more
Jackson's Track Revisited - History, Remembrance and Reconciliation by Carolyn Landon
$22.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
In the late 1990s, Carolyn Landon collaborated with Daryl Tonkin to write his memoir of life at Jackson's Track. It was the story of a White man and his Aboriginal family, of family ties, hard work, happiness, betrayal, racial prejudice and ultimately, from Daryl's point of view, tragic dispossession. S ...Show more
Voices of the First Day: Awakening The Aboriginal Dreamtime by Robert Lawlor
$64.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Inner Traditions S.
Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture as a source of and guide to transforming our own world view. While not romanticizing the past ...Show more
Kookoo Kookaburra by Gregg Dreise
$24.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Kindness is like a boomerang - if you throw it often, it comes back often. Kookoo the Kookaburra is the second heartwarming morality tale - set within the cultural context of the Dreamtime - by Queensland teacher Gregg Dreise. In the same vein as his first book Silly Birds (Magabala Books 2014) Dreise t ...Show more
A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition by Noel Pearson, Shireen Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Soon we will all decide if and how Indigenous Australians will be recognised in the Constitution. In this essential book, several leading writers and thinkers provide a road map to recognition. Starting with the Uluru Statement from the Heart, these eloquent essays show what constitutional recognition m ...Show more
Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance by Anna Haebich
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Nyungar people of Western Australia strategically and courageously adapted their rich performance culture to survive the catastrophe that engulfed t ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Little Bird's Day by Sally Morgan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Reading Level: New Illustrator
A simple, universal story of a day in the life of Little Bird as she sings the world alive, flies with Cloud, travels with Wind, nestles with Moon and dreams of flying among the stars. Sally’s beautiful words and Johnny’s sensitive artwork combine to make this a beautiful, distinctive publication with g ...Show more
Shirley Purdie: My Story, Ngaginybe Jarragbe by Shirley Purdie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Kimberly Art Centre Ser.
Age range 0 to 9 I am Shirley Purdie This is my story Ngayin-ga Birrmarriyan-nga Berrembi jarragbe ngaginybe. My mother shows me how to get bushtucker and she shows me how to paint. Now I'm a famous artist. My paintings are all over the world hanging in important places. Happy times. Told in English a ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cel ...Show more
Songspirals: Sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines by Gay'wu Group of Women, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Joint winner of the 2020 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction.Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Award for Non-Fiction.2'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the lan ...Show more