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Beryl M. Cruse, Liddy Stewart, Sue Norman

Mutton Fish: The surviving culture of Aboriginal people and abalone on the south coast of NSW

The people of the south coast of NSW have a long and complex relationship with the coastal environment; one that has nurtured them for thousands of years. Mutton Fish includes lively interviews with Aboriginal people who have fished traditionally and

Paint Me Black: Memories of Croker Island and other journeys

Claire Henty-Gebert

Claire Henty-Gebert’s life is remarkable. Born in the late 1930s, the daughter of a white settler and an Alyawarra woman, Claire was four years old when she was taken to the Bungalow mission in Alice Springs. Much of her young life was then spent in

Wunambi the Water Snake

May O'Brien, Sue Wyatt

This is a story of the time when the earth was young and the land was being created. It tells of a powerful and awesome water snake called Wunambi. The Wongutha people of the Eastern Goldfields area of Western Australia say that this huge creature

Jackie Huggins, Rita Huggins

Auntie Rita

Rita Huggins told her memories to her daughter Jackie, and some of their conversation is in this book. We witness their intimacy, their similarities and their differences, the 'fighting with their tongues'. Two voices, two views on a shared life.

Peter Johnson, Yuwali Nixon, Susan Davenport

Cleared Out: First contact in the Western Desert

In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australians — patrol officers from the Woomera Rocket Range, clearing an area into which rockets were to be fired. They had been pursued

Paper and Talk: A manual for reconstituting materials in Australian Indigenous languages

Nick Thieberger

This is a concise guide and an excellent introduction to the complicated issues of language reconstruction. For example, finding out about languages that are no longer spoken, or those that are still spoken by only a few people, can be a long and

Prof Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Whitening Race: Essays in social and cultural criticism

With its focus on Australia, Whitening race engages with relations between migration, Indigenous dispossession and whiteness. It creates a new intellectual space that investigates the nature of racialised conditions and their role in reproducing

A Bend in the Yarra: A history of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841–1851

Ian Clark, Toby Heydon

The Yarra Bend Park marks one of the most important post-contact places in the Melbourne metropolitan area, and is of great significance to Victorian Aboriginal people, particularly the Wurundjeri Aboriginal community.

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Simon Holdaway, Nicola Stern

A Record in Stone: A study of Australia's flaked stone artefacts

A Record in Stone is a comprehensive investigation into the different ways in which archaeologists use flaked stone artefacts as a basis for reconstructing the distant human past.