Prose, poetry, song, drama, and polemic of 36 Aboriginal and Islander authors from all states and territories of Australia and dating from the 1840's to the present.

Contents: Kirrkirr (Chicken hawk) / Jimmy Pike -- The legend of Jimmy's axe and other verses / Archie Weller -- Narroondarie's wives Wondangar, goon na ghun (Whale and star fish) / David Unaipon -- Testimony to Gawler -- Letter from Nepabunna -- A good thrashing / Tilly Bails -- Jilji Kurmalyi (Sandhills) / Jimmy Pike -- I went to Perth once too / Paddy Roe -- "Cuppa tea" song The possum woman / Ngitji Ngitji -- Goanna hibernating / Robert Churnside -- A story of Wongawol Station / Snowy Hill -- Purnarra / Jimmy Pike -- The letter / Sally Morgan -- Unwritten policy / Gloria Brennan -- Waterdogs / Jimmy Everett -- Old Cobraboor / Ellen Draper -- Mission truck / Maree Thorne -- White fantasy, black fact My brother Harold Pay back / Jack Davis -- Bidjibub / Tracy Bunda -- The way forgotten The concrete box Joey comes to the city / Hyllus Maris -- Stolen car / Archie Weller -- A letter from an aboriginal mother The trials of Nobby / Ruby Langford -- Nikky's story / Gordon Langford -- Gelam / Lydia George -- Pigeon story / Banjo Worrumarra -- The great journey of the aboriginal teenagers / Robert Bropho -- Reflections on a black childhood / Leanne Hollingsworth -- Nanya / William Ferguson -- Mirnmirt / Jimmy Pike -- Struggling / Mudrooroo Narogin -- Mirnmirt / Jimmy Pike -- Black girl / Jimmy Chi -- My Finke River home / Herbie Laughton -- Brown skin baby / Bob Randall -- Here comes the nigger (extract) / Gerry Bostock -- Bran Nue Dae (extract) / Jimmy Chi and others -- Ngurra Wanjulajarra (Land all over the world) / Jimmy Pike -- Aboriginal land-claims not excessive in the land of the great fair go / Rob Riley -- Restore dignity, restore land, restore life / Pat Dodson -- The year of mourning / Gary Foley ... [et al.] -- Still you keep asking asking / Nimbaliman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-363) Bibliography: pages 347-363.