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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Indigenous peoples and the environment; Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge; South-eastern Australia as a biocultural region; Sources; Aim; Spelling; Warnings; Chapter 1 Totemic life; Introduction; Aboriginal beliefs; Eaglehaw...

Chapter 4 Plant foodIntroduction; Plant foods; Making wild foods 'useful'; Discussion; Chapter 5 Animal food; Introduction; Invertebrates; Fish; Birds; Reptiles; Terrestrial mammals; Marine mammals; Discussion; Chapter 6 Water; Introduction; Reading the signs: animals and insects as indicators of th...

Village sites and campsites at sources of permanent waterDrought conditions blamed on the arrival of Europeans; Rainmakers or charmers; Limiting water spillage; Water extractors; Water storage/vessels; Bark buckets; Waterbags made from animal skins; Drinking vessels; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Fire in Ab...

DistributionTraditional uses; Transport and communication; Night fishing; Customs and ceremony; How to make a canoe; Making use of Aboriginal canoes; Reliance upon Aboriginal knowledge of canoes; Saving white fellas; Economic dependence on canoes; Colonisers using canoes -- badly; Discussion; Chapte...

Garments other than skin, feather or furHeadbands and bonnets; Colonist use of Indigenous skins and furs, and of Aboriginal garments; Possum skin commerce in the gold rush era; Discussion; Chapter 11 Wellbeing; Introduction; Medicine men and women; Practices of the medicine men and women; Europeans...