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Very Big Journey is the life of a remarkable Australian. Wrenched from her family and impounded in a half-caste home, Hilda went on to raise a large family, survive Cyclone Tracy, present a writ to the High Court and, finally, travel back to her Yanyuwa land.

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Interweaves the author's own personal experience with Yarrabah and other Queensland Aboriginal communities along with the voices of Aboriginal people, missionaries, and those who sat in the pews and on subcommittees and Boards in the cities. This title presents the historical influences of missions in shaping Christianity in Aboriginal Australia.

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Using the new theoretical cultural critique of 'whiteness' as an object of research, Whitening Race engages with relations between migration, Indigenous dispossession and whiteness in Australia. It creates a new intellectual space that investigates the nature of racialised conditions and their role in reproducing colonising relations in Australia.

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This enthralling new history of Aboriginal writing challenges conventional beliefs about how and when Indigenous authorship began. This book deals with real stories of how Indigenous Australians used writing and reading to negotiate a changing world, to challenge their oppressors, to preserve country and kin.

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The son of Greek migrant parents, Jackomos was born in Collingwood and grew up in the Great Depression, mixing with people from a range of backgrounds. He was at different times a welfare worker and activist, a public servant in Aboriginal affairs, an historian archivist and genealogist. This title presents his story.

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From the vantage point of the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, this book offers new writing and perspectives on the emergence of Aboriginal organisations, and the unfolding of these within town, regional and national contexts. It is an ethnographic snapshot of the Warumungu people, the traditional owners of the country.

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WEH Stanner was a public intellectual whose work reached beyond the walls of the academy, and he remains a highly significant figure in Aboriginal affairs and Australian anthropology. This title provides an historical context for Stanner's work, and demonstrates the continuing relevance of his writings in the contested field of Aboriginal affairs.

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Australian Indigenous art is increasingly drawing the attention of international audiences. John Mawurndjul is an Aboriginal artist whose work is collected and displayed in art museums and galleries throughout the world. The authors here debate questions such as how art should be viewed and approached in intercultural terms.

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This story tells of the lives of the Bittangabee tribe. It follows Ninima and his family on their long summer journey into the mountains to collect Bogong moths, and then home again to the sea. It highlights the importance of family and kinship in Aboriginal culture, and captures their intimate knowledge of plant and animal relationships.

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In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australians. They had been pursued by patrol officers for several weeks. Yuwali, 17 at the time, remembers every detail of the drama.

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Native title has dramatically altered the law and public policy in Australia. It has had a fundamental impact on social relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and the courts have played a central role in its development and continue to do so. This revised edition is the most up-to-date book on the subject.

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Suitable for managers of rock art in Australia, this manual covers such areas as deterioration processes, sources of damage, visitor management and practical conservation. It includes examples and colour illustrations.

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Represents the most focused and sustained Indigenous critique of anthropological knowledge yet published. This title draws on both the Torres Strait Islander struggle and the author's own personal struggle to break free from imposed definitions, and reminds us that such intellectual journeys are highly personal and political.

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A collection of histories, in both written and illustrative form, from the women and men of Ernabella, in northern South Australia. It tells the story of the interaction between white and black women that led to the establishment and development of a school of Australian art: Ernabella Arts Inc.

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Offers an overview of the use of drugs among Aboriginal people and surveys the extant international literature. This book also gives descriptions of the interaction between the setting and the users, examines the substance itself, and canvasses a range of possible intervention programs.

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Provides the inside story of the Mabo case, a unique court drama where rights and interests previously unknown to Anglo-Australian law came to be recognised by the High Court of Australia. This title identifies questions of cultural diversity and self-determination in exploring the role of native title in the reshaping of Australian identity.

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Claire Henty-Gebert, born in 1930, was four years old when she was taken to the Bungalow mission in Alice Springs. She was the daughter of a white settler and an Alyawarra woman. Much of her young life was spent on Croker Island mission. Inspired by others, she traced her Aboriginal family but was never to meet her mother.

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Offers snapshots of the last 40 years of how views have changed regarding Australian Aboriginal self government over the last forty years. Author from UWS.

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In 1976, the author visited friends on Palm Island and was shocked at the restrictions the Aboriginal people living there were forced to endure. He recorded their lives and stories in his first book. In the 1980s, Rosser went back to Palm Island and this book is an account of his experiences and the changes he saw in both the people and the place.

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Something Special tells the story of a unique and successful 'experiment' in which the delivery of health services in the Katherine region in the Northern Territory were 'handed over' to 'a group of grassroots-oriented Aboriginal people'.