They Rescued Us - Aboriginal Heroes on Country by Fred Cahir
$35.00 AUD
Category: First Nations
This book acknowledges the rescues of thousands of colonists by Aboriginal people from life threatening situations such as bush fires, floods, shipwrecks and being lost in the bush. It pays tribute to their knowledge, mercy and courage they showed by freely rescuing the invaders who sought to occupy the ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New
$37.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world's longest continuous collection of cultures, including over 440 unique languages and many more dialects. Sadly, European invasion has had severe consequences for the vitality of these languages.Amid devastating ...Show more
Shades of Me: My Many Lives Through Many Dreamings by Mel Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
Melinda Brown (Ngunnawal woman) shares the story of discovering her heritage and how the journey to understand her culture gave her the strength to find her place in the world. Mel Brown is an Australian Aboriginal Ngunnawal woman. This is her story. Growing up white, Mel always felt that there ...Show more
Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media by Amy McQuire
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
From one of this country's leading Indigenous journalists comes a collection of fierce and powerful essays proving why the media need to believe Black witnesses and showcasing ways that journalism can be used to hold the powerful to account and make the world a more equitable place.Amy McQuire has been ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world?This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinge ...Show more
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking by Tyson Yunkaporta
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
SAND TALK, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming'. RIGHT STORY, WRONG STORY extends Yunkaporta's explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking. Along ...Show more
Gigorou: It’s Time to Reclaim Beauty. First Nations Wisdom and Womanhood by Sasha Kutabah Sarago
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
'You're too pretty to be Aboriginal' is a shocking statement Sasha Kutabah Sarago experienced at a young age. In her 2020 TEDx talk, 'The (de)colonising of beauty', Sasha shares how she reclaimed her femininity by redefining beauty. In challenging our modern-day concepts of beauty from a First Nations w ...Show more
First Knowledges Box Set by First Knowledges
$125.00 AUD
Category: First Knowledges
Exploring practices such as Songlines, architecture and design, land management, astronomy, botany and law, this series brings together two very different ways of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers an ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$25.00 AUD
Category: First Nations
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist.William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cele ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more