Books on the history and culture of Tasmania's Aboriginal people, covering pre-colonial life, the impact of colonisation, and the ongoing history and culture of the community today.
Keeping Culture - Aboriginal Tasmania highlights the strength and diversity of contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginal voices through stories, memories, essays and art. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
A history of the dispossession of the Mairremmener people in Van Diemen's Land 1803-1832, better known as the Oyster Bay Tribe and the Big River Tribe, but by reason of a common language and a single culture, one group, one people.
Long Trek South traces human occupation of Tasmania, and the once-connected Bassiana land bridge to mainland Australia, from first arrival before 42,000 years BP through to around 200 years ago.
A collection of engaging personal stories about connection, culture and sharing from the people who live, walk and work in Clarence Plains, Southern Tasmania.
With rhythmic intensity luwa tara luwa waypa tells the story of aboriginal Tasmanian boy niyakara's journey from boy to man as part of the palawa people of Tasmania.
Beth Roberts's story of Manganinnie — an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman separated from her people during the Black Drive of 1830, the coordinated colonial military operation that attempted to sweep the remaining Aboriginal population of Van Diemen's Land into the Tasman Peninsula. The story was adapted into a highly regarded Australian film in 1980, directed by John Honey and produced by the Tasmanian Film Corporation.
The Cruise of the Freak and the missionary voyages in Bass Strait of Canon Marcus Brownrigg 1872-1885, telling of the lives of Tasmanian Aboriginal people on the Bass Strait islands.
Patsy Adam Smith's account of the mutton-birding culture of the Furneaux Islands — the group of Bass Strait islands of which Flinders Island is the largest — and the Aboriginal and Islander families whose lives have been shaped by the annual harvest of short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds) for generations.
![Manganinnie – A Story of Old Tasmania | Beth Roberts | 1999 [USED – HC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/manganinnie-hardcover-HRWlxc.png "Manganinnie – A Story of Old Tasmania | Beth Roberts | 1999 [USED – HC]")
![Moonbird People – Mutton Birding and the Furneaux Islanders | Patsy Adam Smith | 1965 [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/moonbird-people-hardcover-XYfkOh.png "Moonbird People – Mutton Birding and the Furneaux Islanders | Patsy Adam Smith | 1965 [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
