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ATTWOOD, Bain & Andrew MARKUS The 1967 Referendum: Race, power and the Australian Constitution RRP $34.95 On 27 May 1967 a remarkable event occurred. An overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people... |
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ATTWOOD, Bain & MARKUS, Andrew Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League RRP $34.95 Thinking Black reveals their passionate struggle against dispossession and displacement, the denial of rights, and their fight to be citizens in their own country... |
| BOIGU ISLAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL Boigu: Our History and Culture RRP $19.95 Their book is a lively collection of writings from the past and present, including stories of brave warriors and traditional customs, of love and hope, of everyday experiences and practices,... |
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CLARK, Ian Scars in the Landscape: A register of massacre sites in western Victoria, 1803—1859 RRP $19.95 This register of massacres and killings of Aboriginal people discovered during Ian Clark’s doctoral research into western Victoria covers the period 1803 to 1859. In a deliberate challenge to the ideology that the colonisation of western Victoria was peaceful, the register reveals the violence was widespread... |
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CLARK, Ian & HEYDON, Toby A Bend in the Yarra: A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841-1851 RRP $24.95 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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COLE, Anna, Victoria HASKINS & Fiona PAISLEY (eds.) Uncommon Ground: White women in Aboriginal history RRP$34.95 Uncommon Ground brings together a unique collection of essays about the complex roles played by white women in Australian Indigenous histories... |
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CUMMINGS, Barbara Take this Child: from Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children’s home RRP $21.95 Take this Child provides an account of the institutionalisation of ‘part-Aboriginal’ people in the Northern Territory from the early 1900s to the 1980s. Focusing on the Kahlin Compound ... |
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CRUSE, Beryl, NORMAN, Sue & STEWART Liddy Mutton Fish: The surviving culture of Aboriginal people and abalone on the south coast of NSW RRP $24.95 The authors have created a thoroughly researched, readable history of Indigenous life on south coast NSW. Mutton Fish includes lively interviews with Aboriginal people who have fished traditionally... |
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DAVENPORT, Sue, Peter JOHNSON & Yuwali |
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GRAY, Geoffrey A Cautious Silence: The politics of Australian anthropology RRP $39.95, August 2007 To date no explorations of modern Australian social anthropology examine the forces that helped shaped its formation. Geoffrey Gray’s new book reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology in Australia as an academic discipline. |
| HAAGEN, Claudia Bush Toys: Aboriginal Children at Play RRP $29.95 From spears, shields and throwing sticks to hockey, marbles and fireworks, this beautifully illustrated and cleverly structured book builds for the reader a unique picture of the lives of Aboriginal children in the past and present,... |
| HALL, Robert The Black Diggers RRP $24.95 For the very first time, here is a comprehensive account of the work of black Australians during the years when their country faced the Japanese threat. Despite suspicion and prejudice they earned a place within the digger legend... |
| KIDD, Rosalind Black Lives, Government Lies RRP $15.00 Non-ASP publication Without this deft background picture of the control and concentration of Indigenous people, and the nature, scale, and casual immorality of public policy, current horrors detailed in news media or in heartfelt public pleas by black and white activists,... |
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LAYTON, Robert Uluru: An Aboriginal history of Ayers Rock RRP $39.95 Robert Layton provides a well-presented history of Uluru, the major centre of Aboriginal dreaming tracks. Beginning with the traditional lives of the Yankuntjatjara and Pitjantjatjara peoples,... |
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LOOS, Noel White Christ Black Cross: The emergence of a Black church RRP $39.95, September 2007 Noel Loos frames the churches’ missionary outreach to Aboriginal people within the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation and neglect. Aboriginal people on the missions responded to white Christianity as part of their enforced cultural change and within the missions’ changing circumstances. |
| MAYNARD, John Aboriginal Stars of the Turf: Jockeys of Australian racing history RRP $21.95 John Maynard's book celebrates the significant and exciting Aboriginal involvement in Australian racing history... |
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MAYNARD, John Fight for Liberty and Freedom: The origins of Australian Aboriginal activisim RRP $39.95, November 2007 The Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA), begun in 1924, is little heard of today, but today’s Aboriginal political movement is drawn from these roots. In this passionate exploration of the life of founder, Fred Maynard, John Maynard reveals the commitment and sacrifices made by these Aboriginal heroes. |
| MULVANEY, John Paddy Cahill of Oenpelli RRP $45.00 Winner of the Northern Territory Chief Minister's History Book Prize, 2004 At times a racehorse owner and jockey, a buffalo-hunter and pastoralist, Paddy Cahill’s contribution to Northern Territory life also includes farming on his Oenpelli property... |
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NAKATA, Martin |
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| ROSE, Deborah Bird Hidden Histories: Black stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River and Wave Hill Stations RRP $29.95 unleashes the past and its concealment with stories of massacres and murders, of working life on cattle stations, of friendships and foes, of bureaucratic machinations and the individual struggles of Aboriginal Australians.... |
| READ, Peter (ed.) Settlement: A history of Australian Indigenous housing RRP $34.95 This book traces the 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,... |
| SHARP, Nonie Footprints along the Cape York sandbeaches RRP $24.95 Nonie Sharp documents the history of the seafaring Aboriginal people of Northern Cape York Peninsula and the Kaurareg people of the Prince of Wales group of islands... |