Joey Counts to Ten by MORGAN , SALLY
$14.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Watch, look, listen, and count This tale's bright, colorful illustrations will enchant children as they find and learn Australian animals, and follow the mood of the weather as the story leads Joey from dawn to starlit night. More than just a counting book, this picture book can be used to discuss such ...Show more
Stolen Girl by Trina Saffioti
$19.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Stolen Girl is a fictionalised account of the now universally known story of the Stolen Generation and tells of an Aboriginal girl taken from her family and sent to a children's home. Each night she sings, and dreams of her mother and the life they once shared - of sitting on the verandah of their corru ...Show more
Talking Sideways by Malcolm Reg; McKinnon Dodd
$32.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Reading Level: 3
'That's the way it is with us mob. We were brought up to talk kind of sideways. That's the respectful, true Aboriginal way.' Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has ...Show more
My People's Dreaming - An Aboriginal Elder Speaks on Life, Land, Spirit and Forgiveness by Peter McConchie; Max Dulumunmun Harrison
$39.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
My People's Dreaming is a rare, personal insight into traditional Yuin teachings, and is drawn from extensive interviews with Uncle Max.
The Sydney Language by Jaky Troy; Jakelin Troy
$34.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
The Sydney Language was written to revive interest in the Aboriginal language of the Sydney district. It makes readily available the small amount of surviving information from historical records. Author, Professor Jakelin Troy refers to the language as the Sydney Language' because there was no name give ...Show more
A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow Case by Antonio Buti
$32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Reading Level: 3 Biography
On Christmas Day 1957, Joe Trevorrow walked through the blistering heat to seek help for his sick baby boy. When relatives agreed to take Bruce to hospital, Joe was relieved - his son was in safe hands - but, within days, Bruce would be living with another family, and Joe would never see his son again. ...Show more
Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in the early nineteenth century. These Indigenous travellers, often referred to as ‘guide’s’, ‘native aides’, or ‘intermediaries’ have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: ...Show more
First Australians by Rachel Perkins Marcia Langton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
"First Australiansis the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire.Sev ...Show more
Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
'Ever since I was thirteen years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have ... what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the "Top End". Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory h ...Show more
Original Australians (The) by Josephine Flood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
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 contacts between Europeans and indigenous Australians, right through to modern times, it offers an insight in ...Show more
What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney by Dennis Foley, Peter Read
$35.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous
What the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present.Dennis, the grandson ofClarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai-mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore ...Show more
My Place by Sally Morgan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
My Place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - a ...Show more