Culture is Life: A Photographic Exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Modern Australia by Wayne Quilliam
39.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
Culture is Life is a modern, photographic celebration of the diversity of Indigenous Australians. In the same way that Humans of New York offered interesting life stories to give context to images of everyday New Yorkers, pre-eminent photographer Wayne Quilliam has collected over 500 images and intervie ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Bush Remedies by Cheryll Williams
39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
Bush Remedies is a readable and well-researched introduction to the huge variety of native plants in Australia with medicinal properties. The Aboriginal people exploited this diversity and harvested the bounty of the land with ingenuity. The colonists found the strange flora almost incomprehensible. A l ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney by Dennis Foley, Peter Read
35.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
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
Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala Perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 by Fiona Foley
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
The power of history written down can be both lethal and deceptive, and that has long-lasting effects, both for those writing and those being written about.In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and inj ...Show more
My Tidda, My Sister: Stories of Strength and Resilience from Australia’s First Women by Marlee Silva
29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It is a culture that manifests as the ultimate example of resilience, strength and beauty. It's also a culture that has consistently been led by its women. My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of ...Show more
Talkin' up to the White Woman - Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women. As a Goenpul woman and an academic, she operationalises an Indigenous women's standpoint as she 'talks ...Show more
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. F ...Show more
Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today by Alison Whittaker
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, ...Show more
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffensen
32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including what's called 'cool burns', could restore our country. Fire Country o ...Show more
Australian Geographic Geography: Custodians of the Land by Australian Geographic
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture | Series: .
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) people are the first inhabitants of Australia - there were once more than 500 Indigenous 'nations' across the continent. ATSI people have a strong understanding of the land and its animal inhabitants, which they used to decide where to live. In this book, stu ...Show more