Welcome To Country by Aunty Joy Murphy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Children's Books
This is an expansive and generous Welcome to Country from a most respected Elder, Aunty Joy Murphy, beautifully given form by Indigenous artist Lisa Kennedy. Welcome to the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri People. We are part of this land and the land is part of us. This is where we come from. Wom ...Show more
Yorro Yorro: Original Creation and the Renewal of Nature by David Mowaljarlai
$35.00 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
Aboriginal Elder David Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that constitutes the oldest collective memory of humankind. Yorro Yorro tells of Wandjina creation spirits and their 'crossing over' into ancestral beings and then eventually into human form. Yorro Yorro translated from Ng ...Show more
Voices of the First Day: Awakening The Aboriginal Dreamtime by Robert Lawlor
$56.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies | Series: Inner Traditions S.
Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture as a source of and guide to transforming our own world view. While not romanticizing the past ...Show more
Traditional Healers of the Central Desert: Ngangkari by NPY Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation
$49.95 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
Traditional Healers of the Central Desert contains unique stories and imagery and primary source material: the ngangkari speak directly to the reader. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu (Western Desert language speaking Aboriginal people) culture and practic ...Show more
The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague
$32.95 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
At a hinge-point in his life, artist and ex-gallerist Tony Oliver travelled to the East Kimberley, where he plunged into the crosscurrents and eddies of the Aboriginal art world. He would stay for almost a decade, working alongside a group of senior Gija artists, including acclaimed figures Paddy Bedfor ...Show more
Songspirals: Sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines by Gay'wu Group of Women, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
Joint winner of the 2020 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction.Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Award for Non-Fiction.2'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the lan ...Show more
Secrets of Aboriginal Healing by Gary Holz; Robbie Holz (As told to)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
A guide to the 60,000-year-old healing system of the Aborigines revealed through one man's journey to overcome multiple sclerosis - Written at the request of the Aboriginal people the author stayed with - Explores the use of dreamtime, spirit guides, and telepathy to discover and reprogram the s ...Show more
Out of Australia by Steven Strong; Evan Strong; Michael Tellinger (Foreword by)
$36.95 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
In their startling new book, Steven and Evan Strong challenge the "out-of-Africa" theory. Based on fresh examination of both the DNA and archeological evidence, they conclude that modern humans originated from Australia, not Africa. The original Australians (referred to by some as Aborigines ), like so ...Show more
Original Australians (The) by Josephine Flood
$34.95 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
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
Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today by Alison Whittaker
$24.95 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
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
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Bush Food: Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine by Jennifer Isaacs
$54.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal People have lived, and lived well, in Australia. They have developed a unique knowledge of their native plants and a deep understanding of the value of many animal products. Bush Food is an exploration of these traditional skills and a compendium of the ki ...Show more