‘Buffalos: Adventures in Arnhem land’, Warburton, C. 1934. Gecko Books
A case study of a massacre of at least 33 Aboriginal people in Central Australia in 1928
‘The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People’, Flood, J. 2006. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest
As the title suggests this is a one stop book telling the recent and beginning story for the aboriginal people in Australia.
Songlines and Faultlines
Absolute crap. Less about the trails and more about the failings of those historical figures (non-indigenous) who trod the trails in the distant past.
‘The Killing Times: The Coniston Massacre 1928’, Cribbin, J. 1984, Fontana Books, Sydney
A case study of a massacre of at least 33 Aboriginal people in Central Australia in 1928
‘Aboriginal Darwin’, Bauman, T. 2006. Aboriginal Studies Press
Excellent book for a self-guided cultural tour around the Darwin area.
‘Kakadu People’, Spencer, B. 2008, David M. Welch, Virginia
This includes the notes, pics and thoughts of Sir Baldwin Spencer who was the first Government Protector of Aboriginal people in the NT in the early part of the 1900’s
The Last Roundup’, Baldwin, T & K. 2000, Buffame, Darwin
Written by the builders and founders of the Bark Hut Inn on the Arnhem highway it looks at life in the top end in the 70’s and 80’s and the interaction of Aboriginal and non-aboriginal persons and working relationships.
‘Bunji-A Story of the Gwalwa Daraniki Movement’, Day, B. 1994
Looks at the lands rights battle in and around the Darwin area in the 1970’s
‘True Stories of the Top End’, White, K. 2005, Indra Publishing
Contains interesting anecdotes about everything from the murder of the Japanese pearlers in Arnhem Land (1933) to Cyclone Tracey (1974)
‘Far Country: A short history of the Northern Territory’, Powel A. 2009, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin
Looks at the lands rights battle in and around the Darwin area in the 1970’s