‘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
‘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
‘Among the Barbarians’, Sheehan, P. 1998, Random House Publishing
Is a unconventional assessment of some issues associated indigenous Australians
Why Warriors Lay Down and Die
Looks in detail and specific reasons why even the hardest and dedicated cultural basions eventually just give up the fight for cultural and physical survival.
‘Men’s business / Women’s Business: The spiritual role of gender in the world’s oldest culture’, Bell H.R. 1998. Inner Traditions International, Rochester.
A very good account of separation of roles in traditional aboriginal culture and the link between physiological and spiritual development of the person and their evolving role in their clan