30 Years of Collecting in …
Australian Indigenous Studies - The Lives of Indigenous West Australians
 What are the life experiences of indigenous West Australians? How have government and social policies shaped and changed the lives of indigenous West Australians? Which groups and institutions contributed to the formulation and implementation of these policies? These questions are fundamental to the books of this display.
One of the strengths of the Australian Indigenous Studies collection at Murdoch University Library is an emphasis on collecting Western Australian material; specific areas of focus include the following:
- Traditional cultural practices
- Social policy and theory
- Government policy
- Biographical and autobiographical material
The thirty publications on display are a significant sample of the material collected over the last thirty years which document the experiences of indigenous West Australians and form a valuable resource for researchers and students of indigenous social history in Western Australia.
 Murdoch University Library has been actively collecting in the broad area of Australian Indigenous Studies since 1975. In 1978, the first indigenous studies unit Australian Aboriginal Studies (S238) was offered as part of the degree course in Social and Political Theory. From 1993, a degree programme in Aboriginal and Islander Studies has offered units in indigenous culture, issues, history, literature and education.
In 2005, the Australian Indigenous Studies course at Murdoch has a range of disciplinary approaches and continues to examine aboriginality, indigenous culture, contemporary political and social issues, ethnocentrism, sustainability in indigenous societies, and the role of indigenous women.
Murdoch University Library will continue to collect materials which focus on indigenous West Australians and support courses in Australian Indigenous Studies.
| 1975 |
Fire and hearth: a study of Aboriginal usage and European usurpation in South-western Australia
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 304.20994 H182 |
| 1976 |
The black Eureka
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 331.8929941 BRO 1976 |
| 1977 |
Kalumburu: the Benedictine Mission and the aborigines, 1908-1975
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 255.100994 PER 1977 |
| 1978 |
Somewhere between black and white: the story of an aboriginal Australian
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 305.89915 MCK 1978 |
| 1979 |
Aborigines of the West: their past and their present
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 305.89915 ABO 1979 |
| 1980 |
Winjan's people: the story of the South-West Australian Aborigines
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 306.09941 HAM 1980 |
| 1981 |
Aboriginal administration in Western Australia , 1886-1905
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 323.119915 MAR 1981 |
| 1982 |
Aboriginal Australians: black response to white dominance, 1788-1980
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 305.89915 BRO 1982 |
| 1983 |
Banggaiyerri : the story of Jack Sullivan
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 994.0049915 SUL 1983 |
| 1984 |
European-aboriginal relations in Western Australian history
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 994.1 S933 1 |
| 1985 |
The Aborigines of Western Australia
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 305.89915 COL |
| 1986 |
A drop in the bucket: the Mount Margaret story
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 266.0099416 M849 |
| 1987 |
My place
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 994.0049915 MOR 1987 |
| 1988 |
For their own good: Aborigines and government in the southwest of Western Australia , 1900-1940
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 305.89915 HAE 1988 |
| 1989 |
Noonkanbah: whose land, whose law
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 323.119915 HAW 1989 |
| 1990 |
Mister Neville, a biography
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 305.89915 NEV 1990 |
| 1991 |
A boy's life
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 829.439 D2626 02 |
| 1992 |
Yammatji : Aboriginal memories of the Gascoyne
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 994.1004991 CLA 1992 |
| 1993 |
Sort of a place like home : remembering the Moore River Native Settlement
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 994.1200499 MAU 1993 |
| 1994 |
No options, no choice! : the Moore River experience: my father, Corbett, an Aboriginal half-caste
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 994.12 VAN |
| 1995 |
Telling our story: a report by the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (Inc) on the removal of Aboriginal children from their families in Western Australia
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 362.7979915 ABO 1995 |
| 1996 |
Follow the rabbit-proof fence
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 829.439 P6398F |
| 1997 |
Bringing them home : a guide to the findings and recommendations of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 G 362.849915 NAT 1997 |
| 1998 |
Dingo: the story of our mob
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 791.43092 DIN 1998 |
| 1999 |
The stolen generations: separation of Aboriginal children from their families in Western Australia
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 362.7089991 HAE 1999 |
| 2000 |
Through silent country
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 994.1200499 WAD 2000 |
| 2001 |
Mission girls: Aboriginal women on Catholic missions in the Kimberley , Western Australia 1900-1950
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 266.29414 CHO 2001 |
| 2002 |
Blood, sweat and welfare: a history of white bosses and Aboriginal pastoral workers
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 994.140099 JEB 2002 |
| 2003 |
Piercing the ground: Balgo women's image making and relationship to country
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 704.039915 WAT 2003 |
| 2004 |
Deadly sounds, deadly places: contemporary aboriginal music in Australia
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 781.629915 DUN 2004 |
| 2005 |
Brotherboys: the story of Jim and Phillip Krakouer
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 796.3360922 KRA 2005 |
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