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First Nations History

First Nations History
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia (2011-12)
Gammage, Bill
Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised, with an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire, the life cycles of native plants, and the natural flow of water to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year.
First Nations History
The Conversation
Various authors (with university affiliations)
Regularly features articles relevant to First Nations history, the Voice and Frontier Wars
First Nations History
The Dark Emu Story (2023)
Clarke, Allan, Producer;  Blackfella Films
Tells the story of Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu, with interviews with the author and others (ABC TV 18 July 2023)
First Nations History
The First Inventors (2022)
Behrendt, Larissa, Dir.
The four-part series uncovers traditional knowledge and insights, which could help navigate some of the biggest challenges of our time, celebrating and exploring the world’s longest surviving culture—that of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The story of how entire landscapes were transformed, how events predating written history were recorded as far back as the last ice age, how people navigated over extraordinary distances, and how whole societies were organised.
First Nations History
The Honest History Book (2017)
Stephens, David and Alison Broinowski, ed.
Twenty chapters making the case that Australia is more than Anzac - and always has been. Includes Eualeyai-Kamillaroi historian Larissa Behrendt on ‘Settlement or invasion? The coloniser’s quandary’ and journalist and author Paul Daley on ‘Our most important war: The legacy of frontier conflict’
First Nations History
Frontier Wars
The Original Australians: The Story of the Aboriginal People (2nd edition, 2019)
Flood, Josephine
Tells the story of Australian Aboriginal history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime to the first contact between Europeans and Indigenous Australians, through to the Uluru Statement, it offers an insight into the life and experiences of the world's oldest surviving culture. The resilience and adaptability of Aboriginal people over millennia is one of the great human stories of all time.