A beautifully illustrated story of life of Nyulnyul woman, Magdalene Williams. Her account of the comming of the missionaries to Beagle Bay, and the resultant destruction of Law and culture, is interwoven with richness and diversity of traditional Nyulnyul stories.
In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 1950s. As one of the 'after the war kids' Softcover 198 pages Extended Description
For ten years Howard Goldenberg has been a relieving doctor in remote Aboriginal
communities. His stories record individual Aboriginal Australian lives without resorting to simplification or glib solutions.
This is the compelling story of how the skull of an Aboriginal man, found on the banks of the Murray River over 40 years ago, came to be returned to his Wamba Wamba descendants. It is a story of awakening, atonement, forgiveness and friendship. Paperback 276 Pages Extended Description
Eighteen Aboriginal Australians from across the country each share a powerful story which is central to their own lives, and/or to their family, community or country. Stories which provide readers with a very personal picture of the history, culture and contemporary experience of Aboriginal Australia
Many Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their homes and families during the 1990s. This is a sad and shameful part of Australia's history. Here are the stories of six of the Stolen Generations, stories of sadness and loss, but also great courage and creativity.
In January 1966, Kate Howarth gave birth to a healthy baby boy at St Margaret's Home for unwed mothers in Sydney. In the months before the birth, and the days after, she resisted intense pressure to give up her son for adoption, becoming one of the few women to ever leave the institution with her baby. She was only sixteen years old.
They called me the versatile man," Don Ross recalls. "I put up windmills, fixed the trucks; I only had to see a thing done once and I could do it. That's how I was." Paperback
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