Reframing Indigenous 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).

• 1. Reframing Indigenous Biography: An IntroductionShino Konishi, Malcolm Allbrook, and Tom Griffiths Life StoriesMungo Lady and Mungo Man (?-?)Malcolm AllbrookPart 1: Re-imagining Indigenous Biography 2. Biographies of the DreamingMalcolm 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 bordersAlice Te Punga SomervilleLife StoriesMaria Welch (1834–1909)Mandy PaulOoloogan, George John Noble (c. 1840–1928)Laurie Bamblett and Wendy BunnNangar (c. 1848–1927)Laurie BamblettPart 2: Reconstructing Indigenous Lives5. Reframing the Tahitian Archipelago: Insights from the Whole Lives of Tupaia, Purea, and HitihitiKate Fullagar6. The Life and Afterlife of Yagan: A Corporeal BiographyShino Konishi7. Nah Doongh’s StoryGrace Karskens8. His Walking FeetJill GieseLife StoriesTommy Chaseland (c. 1800–1869)Lynette RussellUndelya (Minnie) Apma (c. 1909–1990)Kath Apma Travis PenangkeLisa Marie Bellear (1961–2006)Kim KrugerPart 3: The Biographers’ Journeys9. Re-Centring Native American History: Biography TransformedMichael A. McDonnell10. Finding Australia’s “Missing” Pacific WomenKaterina Teaiwa, Nicholas Hoare and Talei Luscia Mangioni11. In conversation about Tracker: Stories of Tracker TilmouthAlexis Wright and Tom Griffiths12. Collective Living-Legacies of Aunty Gladys Elphick and the Council for Aboriginal Women in South AustraliaNatalie HarkinLife StoriesThe Wild Australia Show (1892-1893) Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles, Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, and Jonathan Richards