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In Australia, on May 27, 1967, a remarkable event occurred. An overwhelming majority of electors voted in an Australian national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people. May 27, 2007 is the 40th anniversary of this landmark event. Nowadays, a younger generation of Australians is unaware of this historical achievement, while an older generation remains unclear about its significance. The referendu...

This book frames the Church of England's missionary outreach to Aboriginal people within the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation, and neglect. As missionary control diminished, Aboriginal people responded more overtly and autonomously. Some regarded "white" Christianity as irrelevant while others adopted it in culturally satisfying ways. Through the Australian Board of Missions (ABM), the Church of England sought to c...

A Cautious Silence is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology to examine the forces that helped shaped its formation. The book reveals the struggle that took place in establishing and consolidating anthropology as an academic discipline in Australia. Anthropologists had to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of Indigenous life, leading them to being called upon in assisting the government wi...

Give us a hand, stand by your own...and fight for liberty and freedom for yourself and your children." Fred Maynard --- Opposition to the British colonization of Australia did not spring from the landmark Mabo decision by the High Court of Australia, nor from the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960s, which culminated in the famous Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972. Rather, the first politically organized and united all-Aborigin...

Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines is not about the bad deeds of evil men. Rather, it's an exploration of the way knowledge is produced within academic disciplines and then reproduced as public knowledge and enacted through the actions of governments. Australian author Martin Nakata, a Torres Strait Islander academic, casts a critical gaze on the 1890s Cambridge Expedition researchers to the Torres Strait. He meticulously analy...

Trustees on Trial is the first book to detail the Queensland (Australia) government's financial stranglehold on Aboriginal people's lives and money, and to question its management. For much of the 20th century, the Queensland government controlled the wages, endowments, pensions, workers compensation, soldiers' pay, and inheritances of the state's Aboriginal people money the government has never accounted for. In 2002, the government condition...

This book explores the life of Alick Jackomos, dubbed an honorary Koori at his funeral. The son of Greek migrant parents, Jackomos was born in Collingwood, Australia, and grew up during the Great Depression, mixing with people from a range of backgrounds. He was at different times a welfare worker, an activist, a public servant in Aboriginal affairs, an historian archivist, and a genealogist. When he married the love of his life, Jackomos imme...

This easily accessible book explores how Indigenous men understand their lives, their health, and their culture. Using conversations, stories, and art, the author shows how Australia's Kimberley desert communities have a cultural value and relationship de

The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies presents original and provocative views on the complex and dynamic social lives of Indigenous Australians from an historical perspective. Building on the foundational work of Harry Lourandos, the book critically examines and challenges traditional approaches which have presented Indigenous Australian past as static and tethered to ecological rationalism. The book reveals the ancient past of Aborig...

Highlights the ambiguous social position of Aboriginals living in the Northern Territory. This book presents insight into race relations, the contradictory attitudes of missionaries and police. It also reflects morality and religion as well as political developments.

A powerful and moving history in which Peter Coppin, or Kangkushot, remembers his life in Western Australia's Pilbara region, and his involvement in the first strike of Aboriginal workers in the nation's history in 1946.

In this witty and satirical revisiting of Australia's heroic past, Craig rediscovers the contributions of Indigenous Australians that have always remained unrecorded and unacknowledged. Drawing on original records of the time, he has turned the spotlight

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 death. It is a portrait of life, and of self-destruction, by young Australian Aboriginal men and women. To comprehend this relatively recent phenomenon, one has to appreciate Australian Aboriginal history and the effects of which contribute more to an understanding of suicide today than to psychological or medica...

Indigenous Music and Dance explores a range of Indigenous music and dance forms and performances in the Torres Strait and tropical Northern Territory. It reveals the way traditional music and dance have responded to colonial control and, more recently, to other external forces. The book explores the way musical past and present exist as a continuum of creativity and the contested nature of contemporary cultural performances. In addition, this ...

This book is a ground breaking critique of the concept of 'tradition' as it has been applied in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context. The authors argue for a deeper appreciation of the creativity inherent in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social life, and the way that knowledge is constructed and deployed in complex intercultural contexts in contemporary Australia. Each chapter draws on detailed local inter-cultural informa...

Mutton Fish is the story of the Aboriginal people of the south coast of New South Wales as told through the metaphor of Haliotis (mutton fish). Known to some as abalone, this has always been a subsistence food: easy to find and harvest, extremely rich in energy, and accessible for as long as the beaches are freely open to all. The authors present a researched history of fishing and Indigenous involvement in the region. It includes interviews w...

This illustrated childrens book is suitable for those in kindergarten up to grades 3 and 4. It is especially suited to the transition stage from picture books and chapter books for children advancing their reading skills from a basic level. It is also suited for reading to children by parents or teachers. The night creatures: possum, wombat, bandicoot, curlew and owl, and the day creatures: kangaroo, cockatoo, emu, echidna, pelican and goanna,...

Indigenous self-determination is the recognized right of all peoples to freely determine their political status, and pursue their economic, social and cultural development. Unfinished Constitutional Business? offers fresh insights into the ways communities can chart their own course and realize self-determination. Because the history of colonization is emotionally charged, the issue has been clouded by a rhetoric that has sometimes obstructed ...

Historically, Australian scholarship on race has focused on racial oppression and discrimination of non-whites. However, these essays look through the prism of whiteness studies, a theoretical framework of race studies represented in international scholarship since the 1990s. The essays reveal the many ways that whiteness is socially and discursively constructed. This book comes to fruition at a time of political and social conservatism in Aus...

Contemporary women artists of the Yirrkala community in Northeast Arnhem Land create a wide variety of art and craft, from feathered string for ceremonies to large-scale murals for public buildings. Their works are represented in many public and private collections. The gon-wapitja or digging stick represents the role of women and their knowledge of and relationship to the land. It also stands for the sacred digging sticks carried by the Djan'...