Content tagged with History
Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia
Summary How many Aboriginal languages exist, where are they spoken and how are they learned by children? Do dictionaries of Aboriginal languages...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
King Plates: A history of Aboriginal Gorgets
Summary King Plates describes and illustrates a large collection of Aboriginal gorgets, also called king or brass plates....
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Return to Palm Island
Summary In 1976, Bill Rosser visited friends on Palm Island and was shocked at the restrictions. The manager determined where Aboriginal people...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
The Great Forgetting
Summary The great forgetting conveys the forgotten story of Australia during the past couple of hundred years. In poetry and with striking...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
No Ordinary Judgment: Mabo, the Murray Islanders' Land Case
Summary This is the inside story of the Mabo case, a unique court drama where rights and interests previously unknown to Anglo-Australian law came...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Unwritten Histories
Summary In this witty and satirical revisiting of Australia’s heroic past, Craig Cormick rediscovers the contributions of Indigenous Australians...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
The road to Australia: Memoirs of Vladimir Kabo
Summary Russian ethnographer Vladimir Kabo's passion for more than 30 years has been the study of Australia's Indigenous people. Continually...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Gong-Wapitja: Women and art from Yirrkala
Summary Contemporary women artists of the Yirrkala community in Northeast Arnhem Land create a wide variety of art and craft, from feathered...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Don't Ask For Stories: Women from Ernabella and their Art
Summary This collection of histories, in both written and illustrative form tells the story from 'first missionary coming', atomic bomb tests in...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Settlement: A history of Australian Indigenous housing
Summary Settlement traces the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing from the variety of shelters used pre-invasion to the...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Black Gold: The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame
Summary Beautifully illustrated with black and white photographs, Black gold showcases our Olympic heroes, superb sportswomen, football...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Paddy's Road: Life stories of Patrick Dodson
Summary While Patrick Dodson's bearded image is well known, the remarkable history of this outstanding Aboriginal leader has never before been...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Very Big Journey: My life as I remember it
Summary 'When that good old horse took me away from Borroloola on the long journey to Darwin, it changed my life forever. I lost my true...
Publication or resource - 19 Jan 2015
Reading Doctors' Writing: Race, politics and power in Indigenous health research 1870–1969
Summary Reading Doctors’ Writing is a book for every Australian who reads or writes health research about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
Publication or resource - 19 Jan 2015
A Bend in the Yarra: A history of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841–1851
Summary The Yarra Bend Park marks one of the most important post-contact places in the Melbourne metropolitan area, and is of great significance...
Publication or resource - 19 Jan 2015
Aboriginal Suicide is Different: A portrait of life and self-destruction
Summary Aboriginal Suicide is Different is a study of youth who have, or feel they have, no purpose in life — or who may be seeking freedom in...
Publication or resource - 19 Jan 2015
Australia: William Blandowski’s illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia
Summary William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led a Victorian government expedition to the junction of the Murray...
Publication or resource - 19 Jan 2015
Encounters with Indigeneity
Summary For four decades Jeremy Beckett has shone a light on previously marginalised fields of life. While the many went in search of ‘...
Publication or resource - 19 Jan 2015
Entries now open for 2015 Stanner Award
Inscribed statuette (a glass eel trap) specially created for the Stanner Award by Jenni Kemarre Martiniello, winner of the National Aboriginal and...
News - 12 Dec 2014
The Lone Protestor wins Magarey Medal for Biography
Dr Fiona Paisley holding her Award winning book The Lone Protestor Written by Historian Dr Fiona Paisley and published by Aboriginal Studies...
News - 12 Dec 2014