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Ashley Hunter is a Bardi Man and an aspiring artist. He lives in One Arm Point on the Dampier Penninsula, which is north of Broome. He is a very talented artist who paints on canvas. Like many artists in his genre, Ashley paints what he feels and sees. His saltwater culture and lifestyle is also depicted through his art.
Brendan Chaquebor is a Bard elder of the Djarindjin community on the Dampier Peninsula, north of Broome. Brendan's passion in life is upholding traditional knowledge, law and culture.
Dunba is a Walmajarri man who was removed from family and brought to Beagle Bay in the 1950s at a very young age. Dunba was raised by the Pallotine Brothers and priests as well as the St. John of God nuns. Dunba married Rosemary and they have five beautiful children and two grandchildren.
A reworking of Annette Victor’s ‘First School at Middle Beach’ half hour documentary
This documentary is built around a series of interviews with the Nyul Nyul/Jabirr Jabirr cultural bosses who describe the genocide they and their people suffered in the days of the Beagle Bay Mission.
At request of Kapululangu Women's Association in Balgo, PAKAM accompanied Kukatja elders on an expedition south from Balgo to record Dreaming stories for country.
Nimingarra spirit people pursued two snakes from Mukurtu in the east through to Lake Dora in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. They killed and cooked them there, but all perished in an explosion of hot juices when the snake’s bladders were pierced. The Nimingarra spirits became the Warnman-speaking people whose descendants live in the region today.
This documentary looks at BRACS, the Broadcasting for Remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme. It follows the Jigalong BRACS operator, Keith (Joog) Lethbridge on his travels across the vast Pilbara and Kimberley of Western Australia. On the way it reveals the extent of Indigenous broadcasting throughout the region and the use of local media by remote communities to tell their stories and keep their culture strong.
Russell "Wossie" Davey is a Bardi man and carver of traditional materials. He lives in One Arm Point on the Dampier Peninsula, which is north of Broome. Russell depicts art through his carvings of Trochus Shell, Pearl Shell and Boab Nuts. There are only a few carvers surviving on the Dampier Peninsula and Russell is one of a few younger generation carvers.
Five women elders in the remote community of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia demonstrate and translate marumpu wangka (hand signs), which are not only a way of communicating information, but also serve as full-bodied ways of expressing nuance, humor, and personality.
This a story of the Ngarti people told in Kukatja language from the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. The writer/director and story custodian, Mark Moora, tells the story of a group of women from leramugadu (Roebourne) who travelled in the dreamtime to his country in search of husbands. Mark takes us through six locations on the songline, following the women's journey until they enter the ground and return to their home country.
Andrew Bowles is a Nyul Nyul man and long term resident of the Dampier Peninsula. For years Andrew had been told by the elders, now long gone, that Pender Bay was an ancient whale ground. Through this knowledge and the knowledge of this being his ancestral land, Andrew started Two Moons, an outstation run by the Goojar Goonyool Aboriginal Corporation and he made it his goal to protect the area from development.
Vincent Angus is a Jawi Bardi elder from Mudnunn, a small community east of Djarindjin/Lombadina. Vincent describes his early life growing up on the Dampier Peninsula and explains the 7 clans of the Bardi tribe.
In 1923 a policeman, Constable McLeay and a police boy came to the Dampier Peninsula WA to arrest a Bardi man, John Boxer, who had been accused of stealing from white settlers. They took him in a dinghy across rough tidal waters to an island in search of the stolen property. The boat got taken under and the policeman drowned in a whirlpool. John Boxer recorded his story in Bardi in 1970 and this archival recording is used as the basis for a subtitled animation of the story.