Cover image for We are the Landowner...That's Why We're Here [digital video]
Title:
We are the Landowner...That's Why We're Here [digital video]
Publication Date:
1985

2018
Publication Information:
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, 1985.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Abstract:
One of the most positive aspects of traditional Aboriginal Australia today is the outstation or clan homeland movement. Throughout central and northern Australia, groups have left the large centralised government settlements and church mission stations to form small communities on their own land.. Yirrkala, in northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, used to be a church mission station and is now an Aboriginal township. Today it is one of the most active centres for the clan homeland movement, supporting over 15 small homeland settlements.. Yirrkala is also on the doorstep of the massive Gove bauxite mine, which the Yolngu unsuccessfully tried to stop when they initiated the first Aboriginal land rights case in the late 1960s and early 1970s.. This film starts with a general introduction to Yirrkala and the Gove bauxite mine. Then from the Yirrkala Homeland Resource Centre the film goes to Baniyala, the homeland settlement of the Madarrpa clan, on the northern shores of Blue Mud Bay.
General Note:
Title from title frames.

Film

In Process Record.
Performers:
Roy Dadaynga Marika
Technical Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English
Electronic Access:
Access immediately on Kanopy
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