The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of
writing by historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays,
speeches, and interviews combine both the public and the personal in a
bold trajectory tracing one Murri woman's journey towards self-discovery
and human understanding. As a widely respected cultural educator and
analyst, Huggins offers an Aboriginal view of the history, values, and
struggles of Indigenous people. Sister Girl reflects on many important
and timely topics, including identity, activism, leadership, and
reconciliation. It challenges accepted notions of the appropriateness of
mainstream feminism in Aboriginal society and of white historians
writing Indigenous history. Jackie Huggins' words, then and now, offer
wisdom, urgency and hope.