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A Māori community on the coast holds on to its land as developers move in, and a strange, gifted child, Toko, is born into the family.
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The Whale Rider
In a Māori community on the east coast of New Zealand, Kahu, great-granddaughter of the chief, wants to lead, but he wants only a boy, and whales are stranding on the beach.
That Deadman Dance
In the early nineteenth century on the south coast of Western Australia, Bobby Wabalanginy, a young Noongar man, welcomes the first white settlers and whalers, at first as friends.
Augustown
On the day in 1982 when a teacher cuts off six-year-old Kaia's dreadlocks, his great-aunt Ma Taffy remembers the day in 1920 when a preacher was supposed to fly over Augustown in Kingston.
The Yield
August Gondiwindi comes home from England for her grandfather's funeral and finds the family land about to be taken by a mining company, while his Wiradjuri dictionary tells his own story.
The Salt Eaters
Velma Henry, a community organiser in the Georgia town of Claybourne, sits on a stool in the infirmary after an attempt on her own life while the healer Minnie Ransom works on her, and the people of the town gather around them.
The Night Watchman
A Turtle Mountain Chippewa night watchman fights to protect his community's rights against a 1950s congressional effort to terminate tribal sovereignty.
Benang
Harley, a young Noongar man whose white grandfather set out to breed the Aboriginality out of the family, floats in the air as he tells his family's history in Western Australia.
Solar Storms
Angela Jensen, seventeen, scarred and raised in foster homes, comes back to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada to find the women of her family, as a dam project threatens their land.
The Bone People
Kerewin Holmes, a reclusive artist living alone in a tower on the South Island coast, finds a mute boy, Simon, in her house one night, and comes to know him and his Māori foster father, Joe.
To the Islands
Heriot, an ageing missionary on a mission in the far north-west of Western Australia, believes he has killed a man in a rage, and walks out into the wilderness with an Aboriginal companion, Justin, towards the islands of the dead.
The White Earth
After his father's death, eight-year-old William goes to live with his great-uncle John on what is left of a great Queensland station, which the old man is obsessed with keeping from native title claims.
Tracks
In North Dakota between 1912 and 1924, as sickness and the loss of land pull the Ojibwe apart, Nanapush, an old man, and Pauline, a young woman of mixed blood, tell the story of Fleur Pillager, whom the lake spirit is said to protect.