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First Nations History

First Nations History
The Aboriginal Children’s History of Australia (1977)
Australia’s Aboriginal Children
Written and illustrated by over 150 First Nations children and published by the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council. Chapter headings: Dreaming, Old Time, The Macassans, The Whitefellas, Today, My Country.
Frontier Wars
First Nations History
The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838 (2002)
Connor, John
A comprehensive military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first 50 years of British occupation, it examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier and how Aborigines developed a form of warfare differing from tradition.
Frontier Wars
First Nations History
The Australian Wars (2022)
Rachel Perkins, Dir.
Rachel Perkins journeys across the country to explore the bloody battles fought on Australian soil and the war that established the Australian nation, seeking to change the narrative of the nation.
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)