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Aboriginal Tasmania

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.

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This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
A revised history of the relationship between Indigenous Australians and early settlers, with a focus on those men and women who fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites.

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Thomas Bock's Portraits of the Tasmanian Aborigines - N.J.B. Plomley's scholarly study, QVMAG New Series No. 18 | 1965 [USED – SC – Booklet]

A scholarly paper by N.J.B. Plomley, a leading historian of Tasmanian Aboriginal historical sources, examining the portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people painted by Thomas Bock — a transported convict artist who went on to become a respected society portraitist in colonial Hobart.


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Tongerlongeter – First Nations Leader & Tasmanian War Hero | Henry Reynolds & Nicholas Clements | 2021 [USED – SC – Very Good]

Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements retrieve one of Australia's greatest war heroes from historical obscurity. During Tasmania's Black War of 1823–31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history.


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trouwerner – A Tasmanian Elder's Story of Ancient Wisdom and Hope | Aunty Patsy Cameron & Martin Flanagan | 2025 [NEW – SC]

Trouwerner is the Indigenous name for Tasmania itself — and this book is a yarn between three Tasmanians: Elder Aunty Patsy Cameron, the 28th Tasmanian Governor Kate Warner, and journalist Martin Flanagan. Aunty Patsy Cameron grew up on Flinders Island and traces her Aboriginal heritage through her mother's line to four ancestral grandmothers, and further back to the revered Pairrebeenne/Trawlwoolway clan leader Mannalargenna.


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Truganini - Journey through the apocalypse
The inspiring and haunting tale of Truganini, the aboriginal woman who became an icon for a monumental tragedy - the so-called extinction of the original people of Tasmania.

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Truth-telling - History, sovereignty and the Uluru statement
The historical record shows that the argument of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is stronger than many people imagine and the centuries-long legal position about British claims to the land far less imposing than it appears.

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Two Rivers
Two Rivers - A Reflective Journey, is a book capturing an arts-based student project learning about Tasmanian Aboriginal culture. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Undersong - A Tasmanian journey into Country by Hilary Burden

A Tasmanian journey into Country by Hilary Burden.


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Unearthed - The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Rebe Taylor

This award-winning history (Non-Fiction Award, 2004 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature) tells the story of Tasmanian Aboriginal women taken to Kangaroo Island by sealers in the early nineteenth century, the cross-cultural community they formed decades before South Australia's official settlement, and their descendants' ongoing journey to reclaim a heritage many grew up unaware of.


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Uninnocent Landscapes - Following George Augustus Robinson’s Big River Mission
A contemporary black/white photographic reflection following in the footsteps of George Augustus Robinson's Big River mission.

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