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[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

  • This covers a broad range of Country and People's but there's a particular focus on the Eora and Gamilaraay, good coverage of the comparison between pre colonial life and the disruption caused by colonisation.

My Country All Gone the White Men Have Stolen It: The Invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800-1870 by Fred Cahir

  • Focuses on the Wadawurrung of the Kulin Nation, creation stories, agriculture, culture and the changing nature of their relationship with European colonists over the 1800s.

The People of Budj Bim: Engineers of aquaculture, builders of stone house settlements and warriors defending Country By the Gunditjmara with Gib Wettenhall

  • Heavy focus on Gunditjmara people, their culture, infrastructure and the Eumerella Wars.

Blood on the wattle : massacres and maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788 by Bruce Elder

  • Broad view of the various massacres that took place all across all countries post-colonisation.