This book looks at the Aboriginal problem’♦ from an unusual viewpoint—that of the♦ Aborigines themselves, for whom the Aboriginal♦ problem is the white Australian’. a The essays deal with all those features of^ traditional Aboriginal life that made it so^ deeply satisfying to the original Australians:** religion, attachment to land, imaginative culture,♦ and the whole ethos on which the impact of^ Europeans and their way of life has been destructive. The Aborigines have been dispos sessed, exploited, rejected and on occasions^ reviled. What we now offer them is, from an♦ Aboriginal point of view, neither true recom pense nor equality.