When an archeology student, hoping to learn about his Aboriginal heritage, comes to work near their isolated village, sixteen-year-old friends Sarah and Rachel discover why the man known as the Father has had such control over their lives.
Provides a detailed overview of the early history of American and Pacific peoples, including Native Americans, Maya, Aztecs, Inca, Aborigines, and the Maori, up to 1200 AD.
Contains an illustrated guide to medicine in ancient Egypt, providing information on the major medical advances and contributions made at this time, including biographical information on the key individuals that helped develop medical knowledge.
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.
Three Aboriginal girls, forcibly removed from their families in 1931 in accordance with government policy, and placed in camps where they were to be trained to work as domestics for white families, escape their captors and set out on a 1,500-mile journey across Australia, determined to return to their homes. Based on a true story.
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.
originally told by Nganalgindja in the Gunwinggu language
Berndt, Catherine Helen
1994
Two men escape from danger by turning into birds in this aboriginal myth from Australia which explains how the pheasant and kingfisher came into our world.
