Description
Entries range across all major subject fields, and cover current topics such as contemporary art and music, mining and royalties, land rights, deaths in custody, housing, legal services, and language maintenance, as well as including biographies, historical sketches of significant places and profiles of the approximately 500 indigenous peoples of Australia …” — Inside front cover. Koiki (Eddie) Mabo Aboriginal religion – Sacred sites – Taboos – Totemism. This work contains the life stories and photographs of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have made contributions to their people and their country.