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A dystopian series set in a futuristic Australia. It follows the journey of Ashala Wolf, the leader of The Tribe. Ashala, along with Ember Crow, Georgie Spider, is also an Illegal, a person with special abilities who are threatened with capture and detainment. 

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y separately published work icon The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf Ambelin Kwaymullina , Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2012 Z1874962 2012 single work novel young adult fantasy (taught in 4 units)

'The Reckoning destroyed civilisation and humanity has had to rise from the ashes. But there are now people with abilities - Flyers, Firestarters, Rumblers - and society is scared of them. The government calls them Illegals. Ashala Wolf protects a group of Illegals. They hide together in the Firstwood and she'll do anything to keep them safe. When Ashala is captured, she realises she has been betrayed by someone she trusted. Now she only has herself. But when Neville starts digging in her memories for information, she doubts she can protect her people forever...will the Tribe survive the interrogation of Ashala Wolf?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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y separately published work icon The Disappearance of Ember Crow Ambelin Kwaymullina , Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2013 6348683 2013 single work novel young adult fantasy

Sequel to the Tribe Book 1: The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf this follows the story of Ashala Wolf. 'To find her friend, Ashala Wolf must control her increasingly erratic and dangerous Sleepwalking ability and leave the Firstwood. But Ashala doesn’t realise that Ember is harbouring terrible secrets and is trying to shield the Tribe and all Illegals from a devastating new threat - her own past.' (Source: Publishers website)
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y separately published work icon The Foretelling of Georgie Spider Ambelin Kwaymullina , Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2015 8272470 2015 single work novel young adult fantasy

'A storm was stretching out across futures to swallow everything in nothing, and it was growing larger, which meant it was getting nearer... Georgie Spider has foretold the end of the world, and the only one who can stop it is Ashala Wolf. But Georgie has also foreseen Ashala's death. As the world shifts around the Tribe, Ashala fights to protect those she loves from old enemies and new threats. And Georgie fights to save Ashala. Georgie Spider can see the future. But can she change it?'

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Indigenous Young Adult Dystopias Graham J. Murphy , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Handbook of Cofuturisms 2023; (p. 77-86)
Introduction Always Australian, Often Female, and Sometimes Queer : Gender and Sexuality in Australian Speculative Fiction Bettina Charlotte Burger , David Kern , Lucas Mattila , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Gender Forum , no. 81 2023; (p. 3-8)
Vegetal Memory, Community, and Power in Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The Tribe Trilogy Nicole Kennedy , Melanie Duckworth , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature : Roots and Winged Seeds 2023; (p. 227-245) 'The Tribe, a dystopian young adult trilogy written by Ambelin Kwaymullina, is an Indigenous futurist narrative that imagines a society where humans and non-humans attempt to live in balance in a post-apocalyptic world. Previous critical approaches to Kwaymullina’s narrative have explored issues of posthumanism, ecofeminism, Indigenous Futurism, and the concept of Country (Kwaymullina, Edges, Centres and Futures: Reflections on Being an Indigenous Speculative Fiction Writer. Kill Your Darlings.' 

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For Love of Country : Apocalyptic Survivance in Ambelin Kwaymullina's Tribe Series Graham J. Murphy , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Extrapolation : A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy , Spring-Summer vol. 57 no. 1/2 2016; (p. 177–196) 'Ambelin Kwaymullina, an Aboriginal writer, illustrator, and assistant professor who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, has most recently ventured into the popular realm of YA Dystopias with her Tribe trilogy: The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2012), The Disappearance of Ember Crow (2013), and The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (2015). Although the Tribe series aligns with the ecological utopia and Bildungsroman, it is more importantly a “teaching story” whose strength resides in its use of the apocalypse and the centralizing of Country as collective tactics of survivance and cultural brokering relevant to the experiences of living in a (post)colonial world.' (Publication abstract)
Children of Change, Not Doom: Indigenous Futurist Heroines in YA Lynette James , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Extrapolation : A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy , Spring-Summer vol. 57 no. 1/2 2016; (p. 151-176) 'Recent works by Ambelin Kwaymullina (Palyku), Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki), and Nnedi Okorafor challenge ideas that YA speculative futures must be ethnoculturally monolithic and unavoidably bleak. While their stories share elements with YA dystopia, postcolonial sf and Afrofuturism, they utilize a distinct artistic and theoretical approach called Indigenous futurism that incorporates Native/Indigenous concepts of community, power, and responsibility. From this unique position, their non-Caucasian female leads explore vital questions of choice and purpose, gender, violence, technology, environmental and social consciousness, and even endings and triumph.' (Publication abstract)
A Series of Fortunate Readers : A Collaborative Review Article of Important Australasian YA Writing Jessica Seymour , Denise Beckton , Eugen Bacon , Donna Lee Brien , Gyps Curmi , Maree Kimberley , Jodi McAlister , Catriona Mills , Shivaun Plozza , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 32 2015;
— Review of Hitler's Daughter Jackie French , 1999 single work children's fiction ; The Book Thief Markus Zusak , 2005 single work novel ; Jasper Jones Craig Silvey , 2009 single work novel ; Tribe Ambelin Kwaymullina , 2012- series - author novel ; The Obernewtyn Chronicles Isobelle Carmody , 1987 series - author novel ; Waiting for the End of the World Lee Harding , 1983 single work novel ; On the Jellicoe Road Melina Marchetta , 2006 single work novel ; The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl Melissa Keil , 2014 single work novel
Children of Change, Not Doom: Indigenous Futurist Heroines in YA Lynette James , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Extrapolation : A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy , Spring-Summer vol. 57 no. 1/2 2016; (p. 151-176) 'Recent works by Ambelin Kwaymullina (Palyku), Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki), and Nnedi Okorafor challenge ideas that YA speculative futures must be ethnoculturally monolithic and unavoidably bleak. While their stories share elements with YA dystopia, postcolonial sf and Afrofuturism, they utilize a distinct artistic and theoretical approach called Indigenous futurism that incorporates Native/Indigenous concepts of community, power, and responsibility. From this unique position, their non-Caucasian female leads explore vital questions of choice and purpose, gender, violence, technology, environmental and social consciousness, and even endings and triumph.' (Publication abstract)
For Love of Country : Apocalyptic Survivance in Ambelin Kwaymullina's Tribe Series Graham J. Murphy , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Extrapolation : A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy , Spring-Summer vol. 57 no. 1/2 2016; (p. 177–196) 'Ambelin Kwaymullina, an Aboriginal writer, illustrator, and assistant professor who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, has most recently ventured into the popular realm of YA Dystopias with her Tribe trilogy: The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2012), The Disappearance of Ember Crow (2013), and The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (2015). Although the Tribe series aligns with the ecological utopia and Bildungsroman, it is more importantly a “teaching story” whose strength resides in its use of the apocalypse and the centralizing of Country as collective tactics of survivance and cultural brokering relevant to the experiences of living in a (post)colonial world.' (Publication abstract)
I Read Books by Only Minority Authors for a Year. It Showed Me Just How White Our Reading World Is. Sunil Govinnage , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Washington Post , 24 April 2015;
Walking Many Worlds : Aboriginal Storytelling and Writing for the Young Ambelin Kwaymullina , 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: The Wheeler Centre , June 2014;
Vegetal Memory, Community, and Power in Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The Tribe Trilogy Nicole Kennedy , Melanie Duckworth , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature : Roots and Winged Seeds 2023; (p. 227-245) 'The Tribe, a dystopian young adult trilogy written by Ambelin Kwaymullina, is an Indigenous futurist narrative that imagines a society where humans and non-humans attempt to live in balance in a post-apocalyptic world. Previous critical approaches to Kwaymullina’s narrative have explored issues of posthumanism, ecofeminism, Indigenous Futurism, and the concept of Country (Kwaymullina, Edges, Centres and Futures: Reflections on Being an Indigenous Speculative Fiction Writer. Kill Your Darlings.' 

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