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Before the Aeroplane
Dance
Edwina Toohey
To the Torres Strait and Great Barrier Reef waters came ships from all nations, from Spanish galleons to trepang cutters and pearling luggers. In the wake of Captain Cook, Cook's Town became the doorway to the Palmer goldfield. The arrival of fortune seekers, adventurers, plantation owners and beach combers in this region meant life would never be the same again for its original people. This is the untold story of the Torres Strait Islands and Cape York Peninsula in a text that abounds with strange tales, lively personal historians, thrilling detail and anecdote.
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Black Chicks Talking
Leah Purcell Meet a new generation of Aboriginal women as Purcell speaks with nine black chicks making their mark in contemporary Australia. Although they are from diverse backgrounds, all of the women share a passionate, often humorous, approach to the highs and lows of life and a strong determination to succeed. |
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Black, White & in
Between
Arthur Dimer's life has been that of the bushmen, horse and camel breaker, shepherd, boundary rider, mine worker and plant operator. Yet as a man whose grandmothers were full-descent women of the Ngadju and Mirning peoples, the traditional inhabitants of the south-west Nullarbor region, he is also an integral part of a much older system of law and land ownership. 180pp. |
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Blood on the Wattle
Bruce Elder. From the preface "this book has no thesis. It tries, probably unsuccessfully, to grind no polemical axes and to cast no judgments. It seeks to achieve only two things (a) to draw together in a single volume, most of the information about the massacres of Aboriginal people...(b) to create a broad-based awareness of the scale of the massacres...". |
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Blood, Sweat and Welfare
Until 1968, when equal wages were finally granted, black pastoral workers received only a pocket money allowance and rations. But then the station no longer sustained them and aboriginal people gradually moved towards towns and reserves, where Welfare and Social Security became their only means of survival. |
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| Boomerang
Behind An
Australian Icon
Philip Jones In this book, Philip Jones draws on the world's largest boomerang collection, housed at the South Australian Museum, to describe the boomerang's traditional uses and it s more recent flight into western culture. There has rarely been such a stimulating and comprehensive survey of a traditional artefact.
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Boomerang Info
Ian King The contents of this book is designed to provide the reader with a general overview of the different types of Boomerangs and their relevant uses.
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Bushfires & Bushtucker
This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of desert plants and plant use. Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, Arrernte, Pintupi and many other Central Australian Aboriginal peoples have shared their knowledge with lifelong Centralian Peter Latz to produce this lively and accessible book. |
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Bush Food
Jennifer Isaacs. For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal people have lived and lived well, in Australia. They have developed a unique knowledge of native plants and a deep understanding of the value of many animal products. this book is an exploration of these traditional skills and a compendium of the kinds of foods eaten by Aborigines.
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45.00 | Add to Cart |
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Bush Foods
Margaret Kemarre Turner & John Henderson From the complex, ritual preparation and distribution of a kangaroo, to the simplicity of enjoying the sweet nectar dripping from a corkwood blossom, Bush Foods describes the traditional foods of the Arrernte of Central Australia. Margaret Kemarre Turner, a respected Arrernte woman, reveals in her own language a resourceful people with an intimate knowledge of their country. |
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Delusions of Grandeur
Lucy Eatock is raised and educated by a respectable white family, but becomes an outcast when she chooses to marry a man of her own colour, a travelling boxer and wild jackeroo. Born in a camp tent, her son Roderick struggles for what he know is right. He watches as those around him wrestle with poverty, racism and cruel injustice. He educates himself and falls in love with Elizabeth, a sassy, educated immigrant from Scotland. |
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