We Believe in It...We Know It's True [efilm]
2018
Streaming Video
When built in the 1960s, the mining town of Nhulunbuy had an instant population of about 4000, making it one of the largest towns in the Northern Territory. With the town came a hotel-and alcohol. The face of the Gove Peninsula-with its forests, swamps, rich coastline and sacred sites-was transformed overnight. So too were the lives of the Yolngu.. In 1969-1971 the Yolngu tried, unsuccessfully, to stop this invasion and exploitation of their land through the Northern Territory Supreme Court. In 1974 the Church handed control of Yirrkala to the Yolngu and in 1976 the Aboriginal Land Rights Act gave title of the Arnhem Land Reserve to its traditional clan owners. For the Yolngu of Yirrkala this came 10 years too late.. This film is a study of the cultural continuity at Yirrkala in 1982, 40 years after the mission started and 12 years after the Gove bauxite mine was established.
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Author:
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Imprint:
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, 1986.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in 1986.In English
Performers:
Bakamana Yunupingu, Laklak Burarrwanga
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
BRN:
543040
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