Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous

'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing...

Bill Peasley and his associates travelled to the Great Sandy Desert in 1976. They brought into civilisation the last of the wild aboriginals who had, because of tribal laws, chosen to live a free life in the desert. This is the story of the expedition, the family, and earlier travels in that area.

The essays in this important book chart the progress in establishing the Aboriginal dimension as a proper part of Australian culture and history. From John Mulvaney's seminal contribution of thirty years ago, which was the first to show any awareness of the Aboriginal culture, through Peter Corri...

A David-and-Goliath story set in the ancient landscape of the Pilbara. In the space of just fifteen years, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built a global iron-ore giant generating $19 billion in revenue a year. But in its rush to develop, FMG has damaged and destroyed ancient...

Tiwi visual and performative cultural practices have existed for many millennia, but it was only during the twentieth century that a wider public became aware of the magnificence of Tiwi painting and sculpture. This compelling publication celebrates this unique art of the Tiwi people of Melville ...

The dangerous waters separating mainland Australia from Tiwi islands have seen blossoming of an art & culture unique to Tiwi people. Often abstract and geometric, with strong patterns, use of colour, it is basis for shapes of traditional carvings, such as that used in burial ceremonies, more rece...