First Edition. A revealing and often uncomfortable account of the Aboriginal people in the 200 years following the arrival of the first Europeans in Australia. Basically the book is a history of the author’s ancestral associations with the Wonnarua tribe from Hunter River area north of Sydney. In his book he has replaced the name aborigional, commonly given to his people, by Koori ” — “”a generic term that was used by my ancestors and other people of the Central Coast of New South Wales to identify themselves.”” He explains that aboriginal always has derogatory connotations which “”portrayed my people as primative