1st Edition
Reframing Indigenous Biography
1. Reframing Indigenous biography: an introduction
Shino Konishi, Malcolm Allbrook, and Tom Griffiths
Life stories: Mungo Lady and Mungo Man
Malcolm Allbrook
Part 1: Re-imagining Indigenous biography
2. Biographies of the Dreaming
Malcolm Allbrook, Tom Griffiths and Shino Konishi
3. Lives and lands in exquisite balance; Māori biography in the 'now-time'
Arini Loader
4. Indigenous biographies without borders
Alice Te Punga Somerville
Life stories: Maria Welch (c. 1834–1909)
Mandy Paul
Ooloogan, George John Noble (c. 1840–1928)
Laurie Bamblett and Wendy Bunn
Nangar (c. 1848–1927)
Laurie Bamblett
Part 2: Reconstructing Indigenous Lives
5. Reframing the Tahitian archipelago: insights from the whole lives of Tupaia, Purea, and Hitihiti
Kate Fullagar
6. The life and afterlife of Yagan: a corporeal biography
Shino Konishi
7. Nah Doongh’s story
Grace Karskens
8. His walking feet
Jill Giese
Life stories: Tommy Chaseland (c. 1800–1869)
Lynette Russell
Undelya (Minnie) Apma (c. 1909–1990)
Kath Apma Travis Penangke
Lisa Marie Bellear (1961–2006)
Kim Kruger
Part 3: The biographers’ journeys
9. Re-centring Native American history: biography transformed
Michael A. McDonnell
10. Finding Australia’s 'Missing' Pacific women
Katerina Teaiwa, Nicholas Hoare, and Talei Luscia Mangioni
11. In conversation about Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth
Alexis Wright and Tom Griffiths
12. Collective living-legacies of Aunty Gladys Elphick and the Council for Aboriginal Women in South Australia
Natalie Harkin
Life stories: The Wild Australia Show (1892-1893)
Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles, Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, and Jonathan Richards
Biography
Shino Konishi FAHA is a Yawuru historian and Associate Professor in the School of Indigenous Studies and School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (2012) and The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island (2023) with Ann Curthoys and Alexandra Ludewig.
Malcolm Allbrook is Managing Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Editor of the Australian Journal of Biography and History, and Senior Lecturer in history at the Australian National University. His most recent book is Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand (with Sophie Scott‑Brown, 2021).
Tom Griffiths AO FAHA is Chair of the Editorial Board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University. His books and essays have won prizes in literature, history, science, politics, and journalism and include Hunters and Collectors (1996) and The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft (2016).
