Pilkington, Doris

Summary: Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black Aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated. In...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books/Hyperion 1996

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Summary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012

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Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Music 1992

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Andrews, Munya

Summary: The history, legend and mythology of a star cluster associated with women for aeons of human history. Munya captures the richness of the mysterious constellation Pleiades and explains the recurring significance of these celestial sisters who animate the myths of cultures as diverse as Classical Greece and Aboriginal Australia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spinifex Press 2004

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Malouf, David

Summary: A thirteen-year-old cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore from a British shipwreck onto the Queensland coast, and is taken in by Australian aborigines in the mid-1840s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1993

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Chatwin, Bruce

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1988

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Bartlett, Anne.

Summary: Describes the traditions, culture, music, food, and family life of the Aborigines; and how they are working to revive their heritage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner 2002

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McKenna, Mark

Summary: "Return to Uluru explores the cold case that strikes at the heart of Australia's white supremacy -- the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and the continent's most sacred and mysterious landmark. Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South Australian Museum's storage facility lies the forgotten skull of an Aboriginal man who died eighty-five years...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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Summary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008

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Wilson, Rohan.

Summary: "1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, single-minded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre. With promises of freedom, land grants and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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Maralung, Alan

Contents: New song (3:38) -- Bushfire (3:19) -- Ibis (5:39) -- Green frog (8:52) -- Jabiru (4:59) -- Brolga (6:03) -- Garranan (6:21) -- Minmin light (8:30).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1993

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Kwaymullina, Ambelin

Summary: In a competition where seven girls from different guilds vie for the throne, Bell Silverleaf, a reluctant fifteen-year-old contender with a hidden talent for deception, intends to win and overthrow the kingdom, but finds she is not the only competitor with secret plans.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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Summary: Kristy, Ben and Liz are three friends in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback. Trouble begins when they get back from their hike to find that their car won't start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a friendly local bushman named Mick Taylor, but what Mick has in mind for them has nothing to do with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Entertainment 2006

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Summary: Utopia is an epic production by the Emmy and Bafta winning film-maker and journalist John Pilger. Utopia is a vast region in northern Australia and home to the oldest human presence on earth. 'This film is a journey into that secret country,' says John Pilger in Utopia. 'It will describe not only the uniqueness of the first Australians, but their trail of tears and betrayal and resistance -...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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Summary: Samson and Delilah are two teens living in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes, they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone, they discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IndiePix 2010

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Sasek, M. (Miroslav)

Summary: A pictorial tour of Australia presenting drawings of its cities, animals, sports, beaches, aborigines, and the island of Tasmania.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe Pub. 2009

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Reynolds, Jan

Summary: "Examines the vanishing culture of the Tiwi tribe, aborigines who live on a small island off the coast of Australia"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2007

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Yunupingu, Geoffrey Gurrumul

Contents: Wiyathul -- Djarimirri -- Bapa -- Gurrumul history (I was born blind) -- Marrandil -- Marwurrumburr -- Galiku -- Baywara -- Gathu Mawula-- Galupa-- Wirrpanu -- Wukun.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Skinnyfish Music 2008

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Brent, Madeleine.

Summary: Meg, an Irish heiress kidnapped from her parents at a young age and raised by a tribe of aborigines in the Australian outback, enters the world of Victorian England and discovers a legacy of danger.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1987

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Flanagan, Richard

Summary: One of our most inventive and important international literary voices, Richard Flanagan now delivers Wanting , a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen s Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island s...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2009

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Summary: Quotes and excerpts from original interviews or previously published works.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Ellipsis Arts 1993

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