Content tagged with History
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Biographical Index
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Biographical Index (ABI) is a personal name index to published material held in the AIATSIS Library. The...
Page - 10 Dec 2014
Throwing Off the Cloak: Reclaiming self-reliance in Torres Strait
Summary Throwing off the cloak opens a window onto the Torres Strait Islands peoples’ struggles for control over their own lives, and recognition...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Aborigines and the 'Sport of Kings': Aboriginal jockeys in Australian racing history (Third edition)
Summary Coming from an Aboriginal family involved in racing, John Maynard has always know there have been more Aboriginal jockeys contributing to...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Kurlumarniny: We come from the desert
Summary We come from the desert is the story of Minyjun (Monty Hale), a senior Ngulipartu man from the Pilbara region of Western Australia....
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia
Summary In Writing never arrives naked, Penny van Toorn engages our minds and hearts. Her academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe
Summary The late 1920s saw an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House,...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Whitening Race: Essays in social and cultural criticism
Summary With its focus on Australia, Whitening race engages with relations between migration, Indigenous dispossession and whiteness. It creates a...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Steady Steady: The life and music of Seaman Dan
Henry ‘Seaman’ Dan and Karl Neuenfeldt - Steady Steady from AIATSIS on Vimeo. Includes free CD of Seaman Dan's favourite songs...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
White Christ Black Cross: The emergence of a Black church
Summary Noel Loos frames the churches’ missionary outreach to Aboriginal people within the reality of frontier violence, government control,...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Uncommon Ground: White women in Aboriginal history
Summary Uncommon ground brings together a unique collection of essays about the complex roles played by white women in Australian Indigenous...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian nation
Summary McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Trustees on Trial: Recovering the stolen wages
Summary Ros Kidd uses official correspondence to reveal the extraordinary extent of government controls over Aboriginal wages, savings, endowments...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League
Summary Most non-Indigenous Australians know of Charles Perkins. Many are familiar with a few other Aboriginal leaders. Yet few have heard of...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Singing the Coast
Summary Singing the coast offers readers a rare opportunity to visit the heart of Gumbaynggirr culture and trace the shaping of place and identity...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Unfinished Constitutional Business? Rethinking Indigenous self-determination
Summary Indigenous self-determination is the recognised right of all peoples to freely determine their political status, and pursue their economic...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Torres Strait Islander Women and the Pacific War
Summary Between 1942 and 1945, Torres Strait Islander women experienced the fears and uncertainties of living virtually on Australia's front line...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Aboriginal Sydney: A guide to important places of the past and present (Second edition)
The popular first edition established itself as both authoritative and informative; it is both a guide book and an alternative social history, told...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
One Law for All? Aboriginal people and criminal law in early South Australia
Summary In the planned colony of South Australia, Aboriginal people were to be British subjects, accountable to English law, but fully entitled to...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Landscapes of Indigenous Performance
Summary Landscapes of Indigenous Performance brings together a wide range of contemporary explorations of Indigenous music and dance in the...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Life B'long Ali Drummond: A life in the Torres Strait
Summary Family is one of the most important things in Sam Faulkner’s life. Ali Drummond is Sam Faulkner's grandfather, and this is his story....
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014