Foreword / Mick Dodson; Preface / Nicholas Jose; Acknowledgements Anita Heiss and Peter Minter; List of AbbreviationsAboriginal Literature / Anita Heiss and Peter MinterBENNELONG (c. 1764-1813) / Letter to Mr Philips, Lord Sydney''s Steward; THOMAS BRUNE (c. 1823-1841): The Aboriginal or Flinders Island Chronicle; The Flinders Island Weekly Chronicle; Weekly Chronicle; MARY ANN ARTHUR (c. 1819-1871) / Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen''s Land; WALTER GEORGE ARTHUR (c. 1820-1861) / Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen''s Land; KITTY BRANGY (c. 1859-1918) / Letter to Edith Brangy; WILLIAM BARAK (c. 1824-1903) / Letter to the Editor by the Coranderrk Aborigines; ANNIE RICH (c. 1859-1937) / Letter to Solicitor, for Captain Page, Secretary of the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines; BESSIE CAMERON (c.
1851-1895) / Letter to the Editor; MAGGIE MOBOURNE (c. 1872-1917) / Petition to D.N. McLeod, Vice-Chairman of the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines; DAVID UNAIPON (1872-1967) / Aborigines, Their Traditions and Customs: Where Did They Come From?: Hungarrda; Narrinyeri Saying; The Voice of the Great Spirit; NORMAN HARRIS (c. 1898-1968) / Letter to Jim Bassett; WILLIAM COOPER (c. 1861-1941) / Petition to the King; ANNA MORGAN (1874-1935) / Under the Black Flag; WILLIAM FERGUSON (1882-1950) and JOHN PATTEN (1905-1957) / Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights! / PEARL GIBBS (1901-1983) / Radio Broadcast; OODGEROO NOONUCCAL (1920-1993) / Speech Launching the Petition of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement; Aboriginal Charter of Rights; The Dispossessed; We Are Going; Assimiliation-No!; Integration-Yes!; The Dawn is at Hand; No More Boomerang; Ballad of the Totems; DOUG NICHOLLS (1906-1988) / Letter to the Editor; YIRRKALA PEOPLE / Yirrkala Bark Petition; NARRITJIN MAYMURU (c. 1916-1981) / Letter to Mr H.E.
Giese, Director of Aboriginal Welfare, NT; VINCENT LINGIARI (1919-1988) / Gurindji Petition to Lord Casey, Governor General; JOE TIMBERY (1912-1978) / The Boomerang Racket; CHARLES PERKINS (1936-2000) / Letter to the Editor; JACK DAVIS (1917-2000) / The First-born; The Black Tracker; Warru; Integration; Walker; FromNo Sugar; JOHN A. NEWFONG (1943-1999) / To Number One Fella Big White Boss; GERRY BOSTOCK (b. 1942) / FromHere Comes the Nigger; MONICA CLARE (1924-1973) / FromKarobran; KEVIN GILBERT (1933-1993) / PeopleAreLegends; FromThe Cherry Pickers; Me and Jackomari Talkin'' About Land Rights; Redfern; Tree; Speech at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra; Song of Dreamtime; LIONEL FOGARTY (b. 1958) / Shields Strong, Nulla Nullas Alive; Decorative Rasp, Weaved Roots; Ecology; For I Come-Death in Custody; Kath Walker; Dulpai-Ila Ngari Kim Mo-Man; Alcheringa; BRUCE PASCOE (b. 1947) / The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher; IDA WEST (1919-2003) / FromPride Against Prejudice; ERIC WILLMOT (b. 1936) / FromPemulwuy; GLENYSE WARD (b. 1949) / FromWandering Girl; SALLY MORGAN (b. 1951) / FromMy Place; PAT TORRES (b.
1956) / Gurrwayi Gurrwayi, The Rain Bird; Wangkaja, The Mangrove Crab; RUBY LANGFORD GINIBI (b. 1934) / FromDon''t Take Your Love to Town; BURNUM BURNUM (1936-1997) / The Burnum Burnum Declaration; ERROL WEST (1947-2001) / ''Sitting, wondering, do I have a place here?''; GALARRWUY YUNUPINGU (b. 1948) / Barunga Statement; BILL NEIDJIE (c. 1913-2002) / Ahh . Bush-Honey There!; BOB RANDALL (b. 1934) / Brown Skin Baby; SAM WATSON (b. 1952) / FromThe Kadaitcha Sung; GRAEME DIXON (b. 1955) / Six Feet of Land Rights; Holocaust Island; ARCHIE ROACH (b.
1955) / Took the Children Away; JIMMY CHI (b. 1948) / FromBran Nue Dae; MANDAWUY YUNUPINGU (b. 1956) / Treaty; JIMMY PIKE (c. 1940-2002) / FromYinti; PHILIP McLAREN (b. 1943) / FromSweet Water . Stolen Land; KEV CARMODY (b. 1946) / From Little Things Big Things Grow; PATRICK DODSON (b. 1948) / Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions; MARCIA LANGTON (b.
1951) / From''Well, I Heard It on the Radio and I Sa.