australian aborigines

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australian aborigines

Dreamtime

aborginal stories
1994
New and traditional Australian indigenous tales from the Aborigine poet, artist, and political activist formerly known as Kath Walker.

Wandering girl

1991
An autobiographical account of an Australian aborigine, brought up in an orphanage and sent to work in a rich white family's house where she is treated virtually like a slave.

Aborigines of Australia

1987
Surveys the history, tribal groups, social life, customs, and gradual assimilation of the Australian aborigines and discusses their struggle to retain their racial identity while fighting for their rights.

Balyet

1989
Despite the precautions of the old aborigine woman she calls Granny, fourteen-year-old Jo falls under the spell of a secret thing in the Australian hills, a girl endlessly alive and crying for the death that will not take her.

Animal dreaming

an aboriginal dreamtime story
1998
A young boy learns from his elder how the animals in the dreamtime created a world in which they could all live in peace and harmony.

Gidja the moon

1988
After suffering from misfortune and being mistreated by the people of their tribe, Gidja and his wife and daughter become the moon, the Morning Star, and the Evening Star.

The flying fox warriors

1988
A battle to the death between two enemy tribes in the Dreamtime leads to the appearance of the bats known as flying foxes and subsequently to the rise of all kinds of birds.

The aborigines

1972
Introduces the history and culture of the Australian Aborigines and discusses the white man's influence on their life style.

Turramulli the giant quinkin

1988
Two children of the Yalanji people are pursued by Turramulli, the largest and fiercest of the spirits roaming the bushland.

The rainbow serpent

1988
Recounts the aborigine story of creation featuring Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent.

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