Trauma Trails: Recreating Song Lines

In this groundbreaking book, Judy Atkinson presents a disturbing account of the trauma suffered by Australia’s Indigenous people and the resultant geographic and generational ‘trauma trails’ spread throughout the Country. Then, through the use of a culturally appropriate research approach called Dadirri: Listening to one another, Judy presents and analyses the stories of a number of Indigenous people.

From her analysis of these “stories of pain, stories of healing”, she is able to point both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous readers in the direction of change and healing.