Unaipon's stories were published in 1930 as "Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals", but the author was wrongfully and unjustly given as W. Ramsay Smith, an anthropologist and Chief Medical Officer of South Australia. In putting together this edition of the stories, Unaipon collected and transcribed, Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker have undertaken a 'literary repatriation', restoring the text to its original form and bringing it home to its community - the community to whom the stories belonged in the first place.