This book covers an important historical era in Aboriginal–European/Australian relationships. It describes in admirable detail the negotiations between the Pitjantjatjara people of north-west South Australia and their advisors on one side, and the South Australian government and bureaucratic departments on the other during the long hard battle to obtain title deeds to their land.

It is of interest to those of us who have continuing interest in land rights negotiations throughout Australia, but its value will not be truly appreciated until future historians piece together the situations faced and the tactics employed by the Pitjantjatjara Council. Government departments and the individuals involved are identified. Also described are deputations and demonstrations that were part of the negotiations, made doubly difficult by changes in government – Liberal to Labor, and back to Liberal again during those negotiations.