Indigenous Resources: Books

An introduction to Australia’s rich, indigenous culture, this pocket-sized guide is an invaluable resource for learning about the 60,000-year-old history of the country. Containing everything from history and rarely seen photographs to information on traveling respectfully, the content is written by indigenous people and follows their cultural protocols and ethics. Presented in a nonchronological approach, the guide is as much a reference as it is the story of identity and continuity.

Summary: International authors and education and training experts Wendy Watego (Quandamooka woman) and Vicki Scott look newly at leadership. They drill down to the core of you cultural identity and spirit. You get to see how your habits, your decisions, and the way in which you communicate and build relationships is impacted and shaped by unresolved upsets from your past.

Following the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse epistemologies, methods, and methodologies - especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities, author Bagele Chilisa has written the first research methods textbook that situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context with case studies from around the globe to make very visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of research and the historical and cultural traditions of indigenous peoples.

This book links personal discovery to a sense of nature. It restores us to a wisdom that is at once powerful and fresh. Includes reproductions of bark paintings and artworks.

The Fethafoot Chronicles - 10 Volumes. Australia, 1360, a cunning and foul being has claimed several lives around the Heart-rock peoples' great namesake - Uluru - the Heart-rock.

A groundbreaking collection of work form some of the great Australian Aboriginal writers, [this book] offers a rich panorama of over 200 years of Aboriginal culture, history and life. From Bennelong's 1796 letter to contemporary writers, Anita Heiss and Peter Minter have selected work that represents the range and depth of Aboriginal writing in English. The anthology includes journalism, petitions and political letters from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as major works that reflect the blossomong of Aboriginal poetry, prose and drama from the mid-twentieth centruy onwards

My Place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - a mystery of identity, complete with clues and suggested solutions. Sally Morgan's My Placeis a deeply moving account of a search for truth, into which a whole family is gradually drawn; finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.

Too many visitors to Australia return home without ever experiencing any true contact or knowledge of Australia's indigenous people. This guide helps visitors explore and respect one of the oldest cultures in the world including information on bush tucker, the Dreaming and cultural sites.

Taking readers into the depths of sadness and despair and into the heights of celebration and hope, this disturbing account details the trauma suffered by Australia's indigenous people and the resultant "trauma trails" spread throughout the country.

To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being.

An Aboriginal man of Australia, struggles to navigate the society he finds himself in, especially when he tries to reconnect with the traditional ways of his people.

Samson and Delilah's world is small - an isolated community in the central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes, they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival.

Louis Nowra's moving and evocative play about three sisters and their uneasy reunion at their mother's funeral has now been adapted by the author for the screen. This volume includes the play and the screenplay and an essay from Nowra about the adaptation process.

Tired of her single-parent Aboriginal upbringing in a small New South Wales town, fair-skinned and blue eyed Lena gets on a bus for Sydney. At the same time, Vaughn, a forestry worker in a minimum security gaol, escapes to go to visit his mother who is ill.

Set in the Australian outback in 1922, [this film] tells the story of The Fanatic, the Follower and the Philosopher - three white men who use an indigenous tracker to pursue a fugitive. Through massacre and murder the hunt continues, until clear-cut notions of truth and justice are subverted and the questions become not, will the fugitive be caught, but what is black and what is white and who is leading whom?

Paintings and drawings for the film The Tracker.

Four young, talented singers from a remote Aboriginal mission are discovered and guided by an unlikely manager.

Dayindi covets one of the wives of his older brother. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, bungling mayhem and revenge gone wrong.

An Aboriginal man of Australia, struggles to navigate the society he finds himself in, especially when he tries to reconnect with the traditional ways of his people.

Samson and Delilah's world is small - an isolated community in the central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes, they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival.

Louis Nowra's moving and evocative play about three sisters and their uneasy reunion at their mother's funeral has now been adapted by the author for the screen. This volume includes the play and the screenplay and an essay from Nowra about the adaptation process.

Tired of her single-parent Aboriginal upbringing in a small New South Wales town, fair-skinned and blue eyed Lena gets on a bus for Sydney. At the same time, Vaughn, a forestry worker in a minimum security gaol, escapes to go to visit his mother who is ill.

Set in the Australian outback in 1922, [this film] tells the story of The Fanatic, the Follower and the Philosopher - three white men who use an indigenous tracker to pursue a fugitive. Through massacre and murder the hunt continues, until clear-cut notions of truth and justice are subverted and the questions become not, will the fugitive be caught, but what is black and what is white and who is leading whom?

Paintings and drawings for the film The Tracker.

Four young, talented singers from a remote Aboriginal mission are discovered and guided by an unlikely manager.

Dayindi covets one of the wives of his older brother. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, bungling mayhem and revenge gone wrong.