Originally published in 1994 and written from an Indigenous perspective, this highly illustrated and accessible introduction covers a range of topics from history, culture, and the Arts, through to activism and reconciliation. In this fourth edition, readers will learn about some of the significant contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have made, and continue to make, to the Australian nation.

The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia

Politics & Social Sciences

Bruce Pascoe, Bruce

Social Sciences

Aboriginal Studies Press

While Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been largely ignored or marginalised in national histories of war and service, they have remembered their involvement in Defence service and the service of their relatives. Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war time and defence service, told through the vivid oral histories and treasured family images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This unique book shares lively and compelling stories of war, defence service, and the impact on individuals, families, and communities, sometimes for the first time

Our Mob Served: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories of war and defending Australia

History

Cadzow, Allison

Jebb, Mary Anne

Australia & Oceania

For too long Australia's media has failed to communicate First Nations political aspirations. This unique study of key Indigenous initiatives seeking self-determination and justice reveals a history of media procrastination and denial. A team of Indigenous researchers examine 45 years of media responses to First Nations initiatives, from the 1972 Larrakia petition to the Queen seeking land rights and treaties, to the desire for recognition expressed in the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart. The analysis exposes how the media frames stories, develops discourses, and supports deeper historical narratives that corrode and undermine the intent and urgency of Indigenous aspirations, through approaches ranging from sympathetic stalling to patronising parodies. This book will be useful to media professionals to improve their practices, to First Nations communities seeking to test media truth-telling, and by anyone seeking to understand how Indigenous desires and hopes have been expressed, and represented, in recent Australian political history.

Does the Media Fail Aboriginal Political Aspirations?: 45 years of news media reporting of key political moments

Jakubowicz, Andrew

ROM is a 'ritual of diplomacy', performed to establish or re-establish friendly relations with neighbouring communities by presenting them with elaborately-decorated totemic poles. The entire process of making, binding, and decorating the poles can extend over weeks and involves successive sessions of song and dance with culminate in a presentation ceremony.

Rom: An Aboriginal Ritual of Diplomacy

Anthropology

In 1984, senior Warlpiri men painted 30 doors of the local primary school to give their children a record of the Yuendumu "Dreamings." Attractively presented and containing full color plates, this book tells the stories associated with each door and explains the Western Desert painting style.

Kuruwarri: Yuendumu Doors

Arts & Photography

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

History & Criticism

Bringing together the results of research by anthropologists on the social life of people formerly labeled part-Aborigines” or urban Aborigines,” this volume discusses issues including the bases of identity, the ties of family, the structure of community, ways of speaking, beliefs and feelings about the country, and attitudes toward history.

Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in Settled Australia

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Flinders Ranges Dreaming

Tunbridge, Dorothy

Somebody now: The autobiography of Ellie Gaffney, a woman of Torres Strait

Gaffney, Ellie

Lookin for your mob: A guide to tracing Aboriginal family trees

Smith, Diane

One of Australia's best known poets brings together for the first time a selection of 21 essays regarding the preservation Aboriginal culture and land.

Born of the Conquerors: Selected Essays

Wright, Judith

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