First Nations Learning Resource

Young Adult Fiction

Heat and Light by Ellen Van Neerven

Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison

Calypso Summer by Jared Thomas

Songs that Sound like Blood by Jared Thomas

Sister Heart by Sally Morgan

Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina

The Tribe 1: The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina

The Tribe 2: The Disappearance of Ember Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina

The Tribe 3: The Foretelling of Georgie Spider by Ambelin Kwaymullina

Meet Me At the Intersection edited by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Rebecca Lim

Mrs Whitlam by

Rise of the Fallen by Teagan Chilcott

Brontide by Sue McPherson

Wraith by Alexandra Smithers and Shane Smithers

My Father’s Shadow by Jannali Jones

Two Ways Strong: Jaz’S Story by Claire Scobie, Indigenous Literacy Foundation, Kristine Ellis

Remembered By Heart: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing by Sally Morgan

Ruby Moonlight by Ali Cobby Eckermann

Grace Beside Me by Sue McPherson

Fog a Dox by Bruce Pascoe

Njunjul the Sun by Meme McDonald, Boori Monty Pryor

Maybe Tomorrow by Meme McDonald, Boori Monty Pryor

A Most Peculiar Act by Marie Munkara

Fiction and Non-Fiction

Growing Up Aboriginal by

Tracker by Alexis Wright

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

Fire Front ed. by Alison Whittaker

Inside my Mother by Ali Cobby Eckerman

The Swan Book by Alexis Wright

The White Girl by Tony Birch

Mullumbimby by

Song Spirals By Gay’wu Group of Women

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

Stolen by Jane Harrison

The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman

The Yield by Tara June Winch

Black is the New White by Nakkiah Lui

Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman

Shadowboxing by Tony Birch

That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

Talking to my Country by Stan Grant

Too Afraid to Cry Ali Cobby Eckerman

Talkin’ Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta

Because A White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert

My Place by Sally Morgan

Poetry

Kindred by Kirli Saunders

Blakwork by Alison Whittaker

False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella

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Indigenous Publishing: https://www.magabala.com/ https://www.austlit.edu.au/BlackWords https://aiatsis.gov.au/aboriginal-studies-press

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