From the early years of colonisation, Aboriginal people used written texts to negotiate a changing world, to challenge their oppressors, protect country and kin, and occasionally for economic gain. Van Toorn argues that Aboriginal people were curious about books and papers, and …
Reveals the resourceful ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the colonisers' paper culture. This book argues that Aboriginal people were curious about books and papers, and in time began to integrate letters of the alphabet into their graphic traditions. In "W…