Reading for Reconciliation

This booklist is a great starting point to find out more about Indigenous Australians. You might even create a book club on this site to discuss these books with colleagues and friends.  Many thanks to Helen Carrick, from Reconciliation Queensland for providing all these titles.

• Aird, Michael (1996) I Know a Few Words: Talking about Aboriginal Languages. Southport, QLD: Keeaira Press.
• Bird, Carmel (1998) The Stolen Children: Their Stories. Melbourne: Random House.
• Brodie, Veronica as told to Mary-Anne Gale (2002) My Side of the Bridge: The Life of Veronica Brodie. South Australia: Wakefield Press.
• Chalarimeri, Ambrose Mungala (2004) The Man from Sunrise Side. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
• Clarke, Banjo as told to Camilla Chance (2003) Wisdom Man. Camberwell, Vic.: Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books.
• Clarke, Phillip (2003) Where the Ancestors Walked. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.
• Colman, Mike and Ken Edwards (2002) Eddie Gilbert: The True Story of an Aboriginal Cricketing Legend. Sydney: ABC Books.
• Curthoys, Anne (2002) Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.
• Dingo, Sally (2001) Dingo: The Story of Our Mob. Sydney: Random House.
• Dowley, Carolyn Wadley (2000) Through Silent Country. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts
  Centre Press.
• Edwards, Coral (1989) The Lost Children: Thirteen Australians Taken from the Aboriginal Families. Sydney: Doubleday.
• Elder, Bruce (2003) Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788. Frenchs Forest, NSW: New Holland.
• Frankland, Richard J. (2007) Digger J. Jones. Sydney: Scholastic Press.
• Huggins, Jackie (1998) Sister Girl: The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1997) Bringing them Home: A Guide to the Findings of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
• Inglis, Kenneth Stanley (2002) The Stuart Case. Melbourne: Black Inc.
• Jarman Muir, Aunty Hilda (2004) Very Big Journey: My Life as I Remember it.
• Johnson, Diane (2002) Lighting the Way: Reconciliation Stories. Sydney: The Federation Press.
• Jordan, Mary Ellen (2005) Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
• Kartinyeri, Doris E. (2000) Kick the Tin. North Melbourne: Spinifex Press.
• Keefe, Kevin (2003) Paddy’s Road: Life Stories of Patrick Dodson. Canberra: AIATSIS.
• Lake, Marilyn (2002) Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.
• Lennon, Jessie (1995) And I Always Been Moving!: The Early Life of Jessie Lennon.
• Loos, Noel (1996) Edward Koiki Mabo: His Life and the Struggle for Land Rights. St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press.
• Maushart, Susan (2003) Sort of Place Like Home: Remembering the Moore River Native Settlement. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
• Meehan, Donna (2000) It is no Secret - The Story of a Stolen Child. Sydney: Random House.
• Mellor, Doreen and Anna Haebich (eds.) (2002) Many Voices: Reflections of Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation. Canberra: National Library of Australia.
• Mickler, Steve (1998) The Myth of Privilege: Aboriginal Status, Media Visions, Public Ideas. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
• Morgan, Sally (1990) My Place. Pymble, NSW: Angus and Robertson.
• Mumshirl (1987) MumShirl: An Autobiography. Richmond, Vic.: Heinemann Educational.
• Pedersen, Howard and Banjo Woorunmurra (2000) Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance. Broome, WA: Magabala Books.
• Pryor, Boori (Monty) with Meme McDonald (1998) Maybe Tomorrow. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin.
• Randall, Bob (2003) Songman: The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru. Sydney: ABC Books.
• Reynolds, Henry (2003) North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia’s North. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
• Riley, Lin (2002) The Life of Riley. Sydney: Random House.
• Sharp, Nonie (1992) Footprints Along the Cape York Sandbeaches. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
• Sharp, Nonie (2002) Saltwater People: The Waves of Memory. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
• Taffe, Sue (2005) Black and White Together. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press.
• Tucker, Margaret (1983) If Everyone Cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker. Sydney: Ure Smith.