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AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, PACIFIC ISLANDS and ABORIGINES

JOURNALS and NEWSPAPERS

Contemporary Pacific

(DU 1 .C664 (2000-current issue))

The Contemporary Pacific provides a publication venue for interdisciplinary work in Pacific studies with the aim of providing informed discussion of contemporary issues in the Pacific Islands region. It features refereed articles that examine social, economic, political, ecological, cultural, and literary topics. It also includes political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section that allows flexible publication of diverse genres of writing, including interviews and short essays. Each issue highlights the work of a Pacific Islander artist. (Project Muse)

Today's Pacific News

Pacific Islands Reports.

"Pacific Islands Report is a nonprofit news service of the Pacific Islands Development Program. The web- publication offers an edited digest of news, commentary and analysis from across the Pacific region, Mondays through Fridays. Its purpose is to facilitate communication within the Pacific basin and among developing Pacific nations. The service is underwritten by the East-West Center. All stories posted in Pacific Islands Reports are reprinted with the permission of its contributing partners and remain the property of copyright holders."

WEB SITES

Australia

World Factbook.

This site includes information about Australia's history, geography, people, government, transnational issues and more.

New Zealand

World Factbook.

This site includes information about New Zealand's history, geography, people, government, transnational issues and more.

South Pacific

NativeWeb.

This site includes information about aboriginals in Australia, Banaba, Bikini Atoll, Fiji, Hawaii, Indonesia, New Guinea and New Zealand (Maori). "NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world; to foster communication between native and non-native peoples; to conduct research involving indigenous peoples' usage of technology and the Internet; and to provide resources, mentoring, and services to facilitate indigenous peoples' use of this technology."

BOOKS

After Captain Cook : the archaeology of the recent indigenous past in Australia

Edited by :Rodney Harrison , Christine Williamson. (2004)
McNichols Campus Library
GN 666 . A 245 2004

Borderwork in multicultural Australia

Hodge, Bob. (2006)
McNichols Campus Library
HM 1271 .H63 2006

Disability in Australia : exposing a social apartheid / Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell

Goggin , Gerard , 1964-. (2005)
McNichols Campus Library
HV 3024 . A8 G64 2005

Indigenous Australia and alcohol policy : meeting difference with indifference

Brady,Maggie. (Sydney : UNSW Press , 2004)
McNichols Campus Library
DU 124 . A53 B 73 2004

Multiethnic Australia : its history and future

MacLeod, Celeste Lipow. (2006)
McNichols Campus Library
DU 120 .M325 2006

Origins of indigenism : human rights and the politics of identity

Niezen, Ronald. (2003)
McNichols Campus Library
GN 380 .N54 2003

Pacific diaspora : island people in the United States and across the Pacific

Spickard, Paul, Joanne Rondilla, and Debbie Hippolite Wright. (2002)
McNichols Campus Library
E 184 .P25 P34 2002

Pacific voices : keeping our cultures alive

Kahn, Miriam (editor). (2005)
McNichols Campus Library
GN 560 .U6 P33 2005

Rights for aborigines

Attwood , Bain .. (Crows Nest , N.S.W . :Allen &Unwin , 2003)
McNichols Campus Library
GN 666 . A277 2003

Telling stories : indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand

Atwood, Bain ; Magowan, Fiona, editors. (2001)
McNichols Campus Library
GN 666 .T46 2001

Where the ancestors walked : Australia as an Aboriginal landscape

Clarke, Philip. (2003)
McNichols Campus Library
GN 666 .C536 2003

White nation : fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society

Hage, Ghassan.
McNichols Campus Library
DU 120 .H26 2000

Whitening race : essays in social and cultural criticism

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. (Aboriginal Studies, 2004)
McNichols Campus Library
DU 121 .W55 2004

A world of relationships : itineries, dreams and events in the Australian Western Desert / Sylvie poirier

Poirier , Sylvie , 1953-. (2005)
McNichols Campus Library
GN 667 .W5 P65 2005

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Background note, New Zealand [electronic resource]

Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. (U.S. Dept. of State, 1998-)
McNichols Campus Library
Internet

Brown Tree Snake Control and Eradication Act of 2004 : report (to accompany H.R. 3479) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office)

U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. (GPO, 2004)
McNichols Campus Library
Government Document: Y 1.1/8:108-687/

Compact of free association amendments Act of 2003 : markup before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee of International Relations

U.S. House of Representatives, 108th Congress. (GPO, July 18, 2003)
McNichols Campus Library
Government Documents: Y 4.IN 8/16:AM 3/11

Guam Foreign Investment Equity Act : report (to accompany H.R. 309)

U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (GPO, 2002)
McNichols Campus Library
Government Document: Y 1.1/5:107-173

Guam War Claims Review Commission Act : report (to accompany H.R.308)

U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (GPO, 2002)
McNichols Campus Library
Government Document: Y 1.1/5:107-172

Guam War Restitution Act : report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 2041) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office)

U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. (GPO, 1996-)
McNichols Campus Library
Government Document: Y 1.1/8:104-867/PT.1-

Implementation of the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement : hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means

U.S. House of Representatives, 108th Congress. (GPO, June 16 2004)
McNichols Campus Library
Government Document: Y 4.W 36:108-42

Pacific Island nations : current issues and U.S. interests : hearing before the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific of the Committee of International Relations

U.S. House of Representatives, 107th Congress. (GPO, July 23, 2002)
McNichols Campus Library
Government Document: Y 4.IN 8/16:P 11/2

Reauthorizing the compacts of free association with Micronesia and the Marshall Islands : hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee of International Relations

U.S. House of Representatives, 108th Congress. (GPO, June 16, 2003)
McNichols Campus Library
Government Document: Y 4.IN 8/16:M 58/20

1900-1999 CLASSIC RESOURCES

Aboriginal art and spirituality [Australia]

Crumlin, Rosemary, editor. (Collins Dove, 1991)
McNichols Campus Library
ND 1101 .A26 1991

Aboriginal woman, sacred and profane

Kaberry, Phyllis M.. (Blakiston, 1939)
McNichols Campus Library
GN 481 .K2 1939a

Asian Pacific Americans in the workplace

Wu, Diana Ting Liu. (1997)
McNichols Campus Library
HD 8081 . P33 W8 1997

Electronic media and indigenous peoples : a voice of our own?

Browne, Donald. (Iowa State University, 1996)
McNichols Campus Library
P 94.5 .M552 A83 1996

Myth of privilege: aboriginal status, media visions, public ideas

Mickler, Stephen. (1998)
McNichols Campus Library
P 94.5 .A85 M53 1998

Our land is our life: land rights--past, present and future

Yunupingu, Galarrwuy. (1997)
McNichols Campus Library
GN 667 .N6 O87 1997

Te mana, te kawanatanga : the politics of Maori self-determination

Durie, Mason H.. (1998)
McNichols Campus Library
DU 423 .P63 D87 1998

Traditional and modern approaches to the environment on the Pacific Rim : tensions and values

Coward, Harold, editor. (State University of New York, 1998)
McNichols Campus Library
HC 681.3 .E5 T7 1998

Unfinished dreams: community healing and the reality of aboriginal self-government

Warry, Wayne. (1998)
McNichols Campus Library
E 92 .W37 1998

VIDEOS and DVDS

CDs / SOUND RECORDINGS

Voices of forgotten worlds. [Folk music of Australian aborigines, Solomon Islanders, Native Americans, etc.] 2 CDs

(Roslyn, N.Y. : Ellipsis Arts, 1993)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 3545 .V65 1993

Jill A. Turner

Library Professor
Reference Services
Dental School Library, McNichols Campus Library

turnerja1@udmercy.edu
313-494-6903 / 313-993-1157

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