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First Nations History

First Nations History
Maralinga Tjarutja (2020)
Behrendt, Larissa, Director; Blackfella Films
The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and, through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength, fight to retain their country.
First Nations History
Western Australia
Mowanjum: 50 Years Community History (2008)
Mowanjum Aboriginal Community and Mowanjum Artists Spirit of the Wandjina Aboriginal Corporation, Derby, WA (compiled and edited by Mary Anne Jebb)
'This book was made so Mowanjum people and their families could speak in their own words about their lives and their community, relocated away from their countries for 50 years. It is a book of many voices, and many historical and contemporary images designed to be dipped into to generate further stories.' Richly illustrated; many authors. Mowanjum was established in 1956 on the outskirts of Derby, although its people came from the coastal areas and islands north of Derby.
First Nations History
Our Original Aggression: Aboriginal Populations of Southeastern Australia, 1788-1850 (1983)
Butlin, Noel
Proposes that we need to multiply by several times the existing estimates of pre-contact Aboriginal populations and to revise radically our understanding of why their numbers declined. We may even need to think about black population destruction as an act of genocide.
Indigenous Affairs: Government
First Nations History
Our Voices From The Heart: the Authorised Story of the Community Campaign that Changed Australia (2023)
Davis, Megan and Patricia Anderson
The story of the twelve Regional Dialogues and the Uluru National Constitutional Convention, attended by 1500 everyday First Peoples. The unanimous result was the Uluru Statement From The Heart, and its call for Voice and Makarrata.
First Nations History
Pearls and Irritations
Various authors
Regularly features articles relevant to First Nations history, the Voice and Frontier Wars
First Nations History
People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia (2020)
Karskens, Grace
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.