Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous

During Tasmania's gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta's Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists...

Archie Roach AM's deeply personal song, 'Took the Children Away', from his 1990 debut album, Charcoal Lane, was the first song ever to receive a prestigious Australian Human Rights Award. Its impact was immediate, shining a stark light on Australia's shameful past practices of removing children f...

"A collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth, who died in Darwin in 2015 at the age of 62. Taken from his family as a child and brought up in a mission on Croker Island, Tracker Tilmouth worked tirelessly for Aboriginal self-determ...

Tracks we share: contemporary art of the Pilbara celebrates the Aboriginal artists and artwork of Western Australia's Pilbara region in a landmark exhibition opening 11 March 2022 at The Art Gallery of Western Australia. A collaboration between FORM; The Art Gallery of Western Australia; Aborigin...