Asking the LJ hive mind

[azhure]

Does anyone know of good online resources of books for studying Aboriginal history and spirituality in WA?

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[ltlpengy.livejournal.com]

Can you tell us if someone comes up with a suggestion Steph,this is a topic I'm interested in too.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

You may find something here: http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/BlackWords

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Specifically in WA, what you're looking at becomes instantly more limited, because the bulk of cataloguing Indigenous cultural information has been focused on the Northern Territory, and the Eastern States.

From there, if you focus on WA only, the bulk of the information catalogued becomes Pilbara and Kimberley peoples focused, vs say Mooro or Nyungah further south (and those further south still get royally screwed in the 'published book' department).

And then on top of that, many of these books are out of print, and can only be viewed in the state library. Some however are still in print, and others can be sourced through the library systems. I don't know of any awesome online catalogues, but I can write down what I've saved to word documents over the years:

- Tjarany: tjaranykura tjukurrpa ngaanpa kalkinpa wangka tjukurrtjanu: the dreaming of the roughtail lizard and other stories told by the Kukatja. Gracie Greene, Joe Tramacchi, Lucille Gill

- Keeping the Wanjinas fresh: Sam Woolagoodja and the enduring power of Lalai / Valda Blundell & Donny Woolagoodja, with members of the Mowanjum Aboriginal Community.

- The legend of the seven sisters: a traditional Aboriginal story from Western Australia / written by May L. O'Brien ; illustrated by Sue Wyatt.

- Blood, bones and spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley town / Heather McDonald.

- Ngalangangpum Jarrakpu Purrurn = Mother and child: the women of Warmun / as told to Margaret Stewart

- Holding men : Kanyirninpa and the health of young Aboriginal men / Brian F. McCoy.

- Always was, always will be: the sacred grounds of the Waugal, Kings Park, Perth W.A.: the Old Swan Brewery dispute Martha Ansara

- Nyoongah corroboree: Kyana, Perth 1991-1993 in unity and strength. Robert Eggington

- Papunya : a place made after the story: the beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement / Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon.

- Aborigines of the west: their past and their present edited by Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine H. Berndt

- Aborigines of the southwest region, 1829-1840 / compiled and edited by Sylvia Hallam and Lois Tilbrook.

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On top of that, ECU is by far and away the most comprehensively resourced university for documents and so on, when it comes to Indigenous Western Australian peoples; because of its Kurongkurl Katitjin, the Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research

You can check them out here: http://www.kk.ecu.edu.au/

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

And I think there's some titles I'm missing too. This post comes at a good time, I've started expanding my own collection of books on this topic. :)

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

"SWALSC Collection Priceless

A study by eminent historians has recently found that "SWALSC holds what the assessors believe to be the most comprehensive collection on Noongar language, culture and history of any comparable facility in Australia"

Perhaps the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council could help point you in the right direction?

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely be interested in hearing what you find. I know a moderate amount about Central Dessert, but very little about South West WA/Perth where I actually live.

[liluri.livejournal.com]

I found this interesting, further down the page is a NYUNGAR JOURNAL.