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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Exile and the Kingdom
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'A comprehensive account of the experiences of a community of Aboriginal people from pre-colonial times to the 1990s.

This film makes the connection between Aboriginals in chains in the 19th century and Aboriginal people in prisons today, so providing a deeper understanding of how the violence and denials of the past inform the present. Ultimately, it gives conviction that with their extraordinary resilience, the Indigenous peoples of Australia will survive and flourish.

The documentary argues that the relentless removal of the Yindjibarndi/Ngarluma people into coastal ghettos has led to the community’s current problems. The film moves us through the period of British colonisation - unearthing appalling facts about slavery and the violent rule of pearling and pastoral overlords-to the abuses of the 1960s mining boom and problems of alcohol. Yet it never allows the viewer to forget the significance and influence of spiritual homelands, the bedrock upon which Yindjibarndi/Ngarluma tribal law is based.' (Source: Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corp.)

Exile and the Kingdom tells of the resilience of the Banyjima, Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi and Kurrama people of Roebourne 

Exhibitions

Notes

  • Contains some English subtitles.

    Open captioned for the hearing impaired.

    Censorship rating: G.

    Made with the Injibarndi, Ngarluma, Banjima and Gurrama people of Ieramugadu (Roebourne), North Western Australia (Source: NLA)

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Language: Aboriginal Ngayarda AIATSIS: languages , English
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