Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous

Five plays from around Australia which illustrate that the rich tradition of indigenous storytelling is flourishing in contemporary Australian theatre. Adapted from her award-winning novel, Vivienne Cleven's Bitin' Back is a 'zany and uproarious black farce'; Black Medea, Wesley Enoch's richly po...

"Warami mittigar. Hello friend. We welcome you to Darug Country." Cooee Mittigar, meaning Come Here Friend, is an invitation to yana (walk), on Darug Country. In this stunning picture book, Darug creators Jasmine Seymour and Leanne Mulgo Watson tell a story on Darug Songlines, introducing childre...

The battle for Coranderrk was one of the first sustained campaigns for justice, land rights and self-determination. Proud of their culture, their community and their award-winning farm, the Kulin people (led by William Barak) lobbied against the Aboriginal Protection Board and greedy local landow...

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. This third book focuses on land and fire management. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested thi...

"Country women and the colour bar is a timely corrective to established ideas about race relations in rural New South Wales by revealing the untold story of grassroots efforts by Aboriginal and white women, working together. In the 1950s and 1960s, in towns across New South Wales, Aboriginal wome...

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW this large scale book with 140 colour images including some of the oldest bark paintings in existence as well as sculpture, weaving and works on paper chronicles the development of Arnhem Land's unique artistic and cultural tra...