Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous

Amid the striking landscapes of the East Kimberley, art adviser Tony Oliver find himself deeply immersed in the world of a group of senior Gija artists. The bonds he forms with renowned painters Paddy Bedford and Freddie Timms backdrop the establishment of the groundbreaking Jirrawun Arts, quickl...

This book is fiction and non-fiction. The fictional part tells the story of five white castaways or runaways who were found and cared for by Indigenous groups. There are five pairs of stories: each pair of stories has one written by an Indigenous author and one by a non-Indigenous author. After ...

A vibrant, breathtaking documentation of one of the most distinctive art movements in Australia and the political drive that underpins it all. The Spinifex people have been living on their ancestral homelands in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia, since time immemorial. This continuous ...

The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians--described as "this constant sort of war" by one early colonist--around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provoca...

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 '...

'That's the way it is with us mob. We were brought up to talk kind of sideways. That's the respectful, true Aboriginal way.' Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Spring...