The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia

Originally published in 1994 and written from an Indigenous perspective, this highly illustrated and accessible introduction covers a range of topics from history, culture, and the Arts, through to activism and reconciliation. In this fourth edition, readers will learn about some of the significant contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have made, and continue to make, to the Australian nation.

AIATSIS undertakes and encourages scholarly, ethical, community-based research, holds a priceless collection of films, photographs, video, and audio recordings, and contains the world’s largest collections of printed and other resource materials for Indigenous Australian Studies, as well as having its own publishing house.

Bruce Pascoe is an Australian writer and award-winning author from the Bunurong clan, of the Kulin nation. He has written seventeen books including: Fog a Dox, which won the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in 2013, and Dark Emu which won the book of the Year in the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Indigenous Writer’s Prize in the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.