Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous

Looks at the role churches and missions have played in separating Aboriginal children from their families.

What do you do when the institutions that were meant to protect you instead denied you your childhood? This is the true story of Bruce Trevorrow, whose pursuit of justice sparked a thirteen-year legal battle that would make Australian history. On Christmas Day 1957, Joe Trevorrow walked through t...

This is a story about Cat and Mouse. Mouse eats insects, like grasshopper. Cat eats small birds, lizards, snakes and also mice. One night, Cat and Mouse are both very hungry and go out hunting for food and unexpectedly encounter each other. They both get a terrible fright, but what happens next? ...

The first installment of a two-part work, this title covers Australia's early history, from the arrival of Aborigines, to the arrival of Europeans, up to the early part of the 1800's.

The Story of Girbar is a Creation story that the people from Saibai community have chosen to share with us. Saibai community is located on the island of Saibai, one of the northern-most islands of Torres Strait. The story is traditionally told in Kalaw Kawaw Ya language, and has been presented in...

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 ...