1.Images and realities / Eleanor Bourke. 2. Changing history: new images of aboriginal history/ Steve Hemming. 3. Australia's first peoples: identity and population / Eleanor Bourke. 4. Two laws: one land / Colin Bourke and Helen Cox. 5. Living the dreaming / Bill Edwards. 6. Family and kin / Colin Bourke and Bill Edwards. 7. Australian languages: our heritage / Rob Amery and Colin Bourke. 8. Living wisdom: aborigines and the environment / Olga Gostin and Alwin Chong. 9. Education: the search for relevance/ Howard Groome. 10. Health: a holistic approach / Jenny Burden. 11. Economics : independence or welfare / Colin Bourke. 12. Art: interpeting reality : Franchesca Alberts and Christopher Anderson. 13. Self-determination and the struggle for Aboriginal equality / David Roberts
Summary
Positive perspectives of Indigenous people on a range of issues which affect their everyday lives; aims to present a realistic view of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to encourage readers to examine their own knowledge and ideas, to reveal the cultural and linguistic diversity of Indigenous Australians and to demonstrate the contribution Indigenous people have made in various areas of Australian life; each chapter annotated separately
Analysis
Aboriginal Australians
Notes
Book of readings to complement the course Aboriginal studies: Aboriginal Australia offered through TV Open Learning by the University of South Australia in association with ABC TV