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The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study to address the Arrernte's contemporary situation, Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred years. Employing ethnographic and archival research, Diane Austin-Broos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their present, marginalized position in the modern Australian economy. While she concludes that these wrenching structural shifts led to the violence that now marks Arrernte communities, she also brings to light the powerful acts of imagination that have sustained a continuing sense of Arrernte identity.

This study arose from requests for assistance from Aboriginal groups based in Alice Springs, in particular, the Pitjanjatjara Council and the Arrente people. These and other groups were concerned with the problems which population movement posed for service provision and with the lack of understanding of Aboriginal mobility processes shown by administrators and others. The government shared these concerns. In late 1983 the Department of Aboriginal Affairs provided funds for a study of Aboriginal Population Mobility in Central Australia, and contracted with Dr. Elspeth Young, of the North Australia Research Unit, to formulate and carry out the project. Its terms of reference were to: determine the demographic characteristics of communities representing the principal types of Aboriginal settlement in the region, obtain data on past and present mobility between different types of settlement, obtain data on the interrelationships between population mobility and service provision and analyse these data for assessment of short term and possible long term trends. ; Undertaken with funding from The Department of Aboriginal Affairs.

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities - roughly 1,200 across the continent - the volume includes case studies of language and family life in small country towns and urban contexts. These studies expertly show t

Every hill got a story is the first comprehensive history of Central Australia's Aboriginal people, as told in their own words and many languages. Nyinanyi ngurangka - being on country - is not a 'lifestyle choice' but a hard-won right, a spiritual and cultural duty, a constant battle, a source of happiness and opportunity and the meaning of life all at the same time. In this heartbreaking, funny and poignant collection, 127 eminent men and women remember surviving first contact, massacres and forced removals and resisting more than a century of top-down government policies. Their testimonies