NOTICE The author of this website seeks to treat Aboriginal people and their customs and beliefs with respect.

The purpose of this part of the 'Ground Truth' website is to create an opportunity for greater community understanding of the diversity of Aboriginal culture, and their history and connection with the land, by organising bibliographies with a regional basis.

The file below represents an early attempt to gather and classify some readily-available books and other publications. The regional classification used is based on that of the system of Statistical Divisions, as defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which is used elsewhere in this website to organise material by Local Government Region.

In future, this section will be re-organised with a more appropriate regional classification system. I welcome input from Aboriginal people on how this section may be further developed.

ABORIGINAL HISTORY

OF

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Indexed by Region

General

Metropolitan Adelaide & Outer Adelaide || Yorke & Lower North
Murray Lands ||The Southeast || Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
The North || The Outback

LINKS

INTRODUCTION

This list is not exhaustive, but includes titles that are readily available, either still in print, or through public libraries.

GENERAL

Berndt, R.M. & C.H.: The World of the First Australians - Aboriginal traditional life, past and present, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1988

Cotton, B.C. (Ed.): Aboriginal Man in South and Central Australia, Part 1, Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia, The South Australian Branch of the British Science Guild Handbooks Comittee, 1966

Flood, J.: The Riches of Ancient Australia - a journey into prehistory, University of Queensland Press, 1990

Mattingley, C. & Hampton, K. (Eds): Survival in our own land - 'Aboriginal' experiences in 'South Australia' since 1836, Wakefield Press, 1988

Menz, C.: Objects from the Dreaming - Aboriginal decorated and woven objects, Art Gallery of SA, 1996

Pope, A.: Resistance and Retaliation - Aboriginal-European relations in early Colonial South Australia, Heritage Action, Bridgewater SA, 1989 [WV]

Rowley, C.D.: The destruction of Aboriginal society - Aboriginal policy and practice - Vol.1, ANU Press, Canberra, 1970

Toyne, P. & Johnston, R.: Reconciliation, or the new Dispossession? Aboriginal land rights and nature conservation, Habitat Australia, Vol. 19 No. 3, June 1993, pp 8-10

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METROPOLITAN ADELAIDE & OUTER ADELAIDE

Anon.: The Kaurna People - Aboriginal people of the Adelaide Plains: an Aboriginal Studies course for secondary students in years 8-10, Education Department of SA, 1989

Butler, R. (Comp.): The Peramangk Aborigines of the Adelaide Hills, Aboriginal Education Reference Library, Harewood Ave, Enfield 5085

Ellis, R.W.: The Aboriginal inhabitants and their environment, In: Twidale, C.R., Tyler, M.J. & Webb, B.P. [Eds.]: Natural History of the Adelaide Region, Royal Society of South Australia Inc, 1983

Fitzpatrick, P.: Kaurna Warra - a selected wordlist from the language of the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains, Heritage Team, Department of State Aboriginal Affairs, 1991

Lampert, R.J.: Aborigines, In: Tyler, M.J., Twidale, C.R. & Ling, J.K. [Eds.]: Natural History of Kangaroo Island, Royal Society of South Australia Inc, 1983

Ross, B.: Aboriginal and Historical Places around Metropolitan Adelaide and the South Coast, Anthropological Society of SA Inc, 1984

Teichelmann, C.G. & Schürmann, C.W.: Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary and phraseology of the Aboriginal language of SA, spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide, Robert Thomas & Co., Adelaide 1840

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YORKE & LOWER NORTH

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MURRAY LANDS

Anon.: The Ngarrindjeri People - Aboriginal Peoples of the River Murray, Lakes and Coorong - an Aboriginal Studies course for secondary students in Years 8-10, Education Department of SA, 1990

Bell, D.: Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: a world that is, was, and will be, Spinifex Press, 1998

Edwards, R.: Aboriginal bark canoes of the River Murray, Rigby & SA Museum 1972

Hemming, S., Jones, P. & Clarke, P.: Ngurunderi - an Aboriginal Dreaming, The South Australian Museum, 1989

Jenkin, G.: Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri - the story of the Lower Murray Lakes Tribes, Rigby 1979, Raukkan Publishers, Point McLeay, SA 5929, 1995

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THE SOUTHEAST

Pretty, G.L., Paton, R.C. & Weathersbee, R.D.J.: Tribal Man, In: Tyler, M.J., Twidale, C.R., Ling, J.K. & Holmes, J.W. [Eds.]: Natural History of the South East, Royal Society of South Australia Inc, 1983

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EYRE PENINSULA & THE WEST COAST

Berndt, R.M.: Traditional aborigines, In: Twidale, C.R., Tyler, M.J. & Davies, M. [Eds.]: Natural History of Eyre Peninsula, Royal Society of South Australia Inc, 1985

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THE NORTH

Brock, P.: YURA and UDHYU - a history of the Adnyamathanha of the North Flinders Ranges, Wakefield Press & Aboriginal Heritage Branch, SA Dept of Environment & Planning, 1985

Davis, C., Coulthard, C. & Coulthard, D. (Comp): The Flinders Ranges - an Aboriginal view, Aboriginal Branch, SA Dept of Environment & Planning, 1980

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THE OUTBACK

Anon.: Wangkanyi - Aboriginal Recollections of Oodnadatta, Aborignal Heritage Branch, SA Dept of Environment and Planning, 1989

Brokensha, P.: The Pitjantjatjara and their crafts, The Aboriginal Arts Board, Australia Council, Sydney, 1975

Duguid, C.: No Dying Race, Rigby, 1963

Hercus, L.A.: Aboriginal People, In: Tyler, M.J., Twidale, C.R., Davies, M. & Wells, C.B. [Eds.]: Natural History of the Northeast Deserts, Royal Society of South Australia Inc, 1983

Johnson, V.: Dreamings of the Desert - Aboriginal Dot Paintings of the Western Desert, Art Gallery of SA, 1970

Latz, P.: Bushfires and Bush Tucker - Aboriginal plant use in Central Australia, IAD Press, Alice Springs, 1995

O'Shea, D.: Maralinga, Righting the Wrongs, Habitat Australia, Vol. 19 No. 3, June 1993, pp20-23

Stuart, R.: An Aboriginal viewpoint, In: Badman, F.J., Arnold, B.K. & Bell, S.L. [Eds.]: A Natural History of the Lake Eyre Region, The SA National Parks & Wildlife Service's Northern Consultative Committee, 1991

Wallace, P. & Wallace, N.: Killing me softly - the destruction of a heritage, Thomas Nelson (Australia) Ltd, Melbourne 1977

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