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History of the Aborigines of the ACT Region -

A SELECT LIST OF RESOURCES

Didgeridoo performance, 1981 
 

BOOKS and JOURNALS

  
  Bindon, P. & Pike, G.
Survey of prehistoric and some historic sites of the Gungahlin district, ACT, 1989.
ACTHL Location: H 333.72 BIND		  
 


Brown, Carl et. al., 
Stories of the Ngunnawal, 2007.
ACTHL Location: H 305.89915 STOR

  

 
Flood, Josephine.
Aborigines of the Canberra Region (kit), 1982.
ACTHL Location:: H 305.89915 ABOR
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Flood, Josephine. 
Moth Hunters of the Australian Capital Territory : Aboriginal traditional life in the Canberra region,1996.    
ACTHL Location: H 994.4701 FLO
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Gillespie, Lyall. 
Aborigines of the Canberra Region, 1984. 
ACTHL Location: H 994.0049915 GIL 
 
House, Paul H.,
Uriarra Moth Stone : a Ngambri site of significance, 2004.
ACTHL Location: H 994.71 HOUS		  

Jackson-Nakano, Ann. 
The death and resurrection of the Ngunnawall [manuscript] : a living history 1994, 1994.
ACTHL Location: H 306.0899915 JACK
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Jackson-Nakano, Ann. 
The Kamberri : a history from the records of Aboriginal families in the Canberra-Queanbeyan district and surrounds 1820-1927 and historical overview 1928-2001, 2001.
ACTHL Location: H 306.0899915 JACK
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Jackson-Nakano, Ann.
Ngambri ancestral names for geographical places in the ACT, 2005.  
ACTHL Location: H 919.47 JACK

Jewell, Bronwyn (ed).
Meeting place meeting people : stories collected by Iris Clayton, 1997.
ACTHL Location: H 305.89915 MEET 


Bluett, W.P.
The Aborigines of the Canberra District at the Arrival of the White Man: address to Canberra & district Historical Society 29 May 1954
ACTHL Location: H 306.0899915 BLUE
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Kabaila, Peter Rimas.
Belconnen's Aboriginal past : a glimpse into the archaeology of the Australian Capital Territory, 1989. 
ACTHL Location: H 994.71 KABA  

Peterson, Nicolas.
Tribes and boundaries in Australia, 1976. 
ACTHL Location: H 301.2994 TRIB
 
Robinson, Frederick W.
Canberra’s first hundred years and after, 1927.
ACTHL Location: H 994.7 ROBI
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Schumack, J. E. & S.
An autobiography, or tales and legends of Canberra pioneers, 1967.  
ACTHL Location: H 994.7 SHUM
 
Wright, W. Davis.
Canberra, 1923.
ACTHL Location: H 994.71 WRIG
     
 

WEBSITES

  
  Australia. Department of Environment and Heritage,
Information on Aboriginal Heritage of Namadgi National Park		  
 
Australian National Botanic Gardens,
Aborigines of the Canberra Region : a reading list		  
     

 



 

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