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Yunupingu Yunupingu i(A107487 works by) (a.k.a. Galarrwuy Yunpingu; James Galarrwuy Yunupingu)
Born: Established: 30 Jun 1948 Yirrkala, Gove Peninsula, East Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory, ; Died: Ceased: 2023
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal Yolngu ; Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Gumatj
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1 2 Rom Watangu Yunupingu , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , July no. 125 2016; (p. 18-29) 'The article offers the author's insights on the song cycles and its importance in the everyday life of Yolngu people. The author discusses the work and life balance of Yolngu people, the flow of wealth and prosperity, and the complexities of white Americans. The author also mentions the Community Development and Employment Projects (CDEP )for Aboriginal people.' (Publication abstract)
1 y separately published work icon Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow Yunupingu , Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2015 Z1548260 2008-2009 single work biography

''I will continue my work on my land, building a future. It is the only thing that is certain to me now and I want to advance while I can. I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women. We are setting fires to our own lives as we really should, and the flame will burn and intensify – an immense smoke, cloud-like and black, will arise, which will send off a signal and remind people that we, the Gumatj people, are the people of the fire. There are people of the fire around Alice Springs – and I reach out to them, too. We can then burn united, together.'

'Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow is 'no mere essay. It is an existential prayer,' writes Noel Pearson. Galarrwuy Yunupingu tells of his clan and his early life. He recounts his dealings with prime ministers, and how he learnt that nothing is ever what it seems. And behind him, he writes, 'the Yolngu world is always under threat, being swallowed up by whitefellas. This is a weight that is bearing down on me; at night it is like a splinter in my mind.' ' (Publication summary)
1 form y separately published work icon Ripples From Wave Hill Part 2 Lord Vestey , Paul Kelly , Billy Bunter , Maurie Ryan Japarta , Jimmy Wavehill , Violet Wadrill , Brian Manning , Alan Thorpe , Gus George , Ted Egan , Yunupingu , Kev Carmody , Paul Coe , Meredith Burgmann , Philip Nitschke , E. G. Whitlam , Canberra : ABC Television , 2007 9911980 2007 single work film/TV 'Story of Australia's first successful land rights campaign: an against-the-odds struggle that reshaped our nation. Recalls the momentous fight started 40 years ago by the Gurindji people of the Northern Territory. On Australia's biggest cattle station, they took on one of England's richest aristocrats, the beef baron Lord Vestey. Their 1966 strike became one of our longest industrial disputes. Their rebellion gave rise to a national movement. The Gurindji stuck to their demands - over nine hard years - and garnered support across Australia; from bricklayers to folk singers, from white university students to a new wave of young, urban Indigenous activists. These pioneering alliances carried the Gurindji message from the edge of the Tanami desert to the world. First-hand account of the struggle - told by the Aboriginal people who fought for their land and the radicals who joined with them.' (Source: TROVE)
1 We Know These Things to Be True : The Third Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture 20 August 1998 Yunupingu , 1998 single work prose
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues , December vol. 1 no. 4 1998; (p. 4-17)
1 From Bark Petition to Native Title Yunupingu , 1997 single work essay
— Appears in: Our Land is Our Life : Land Rights : Past, Present and Future 1997; (p. 1-17)
1 2 y separately published work icon Our Land is Our Life : Land Rights : Past, Present and Future Yunupingu (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1997 Z1602420 1997 anthology essay

'Our Land is Our Life is a rare opportunity to sit down with Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Marcia Langton, Michael Dodson and Patrick Dodson, Noel Pearson, Lois O'Donoghue, Michael Mansell, Peter Yu, and many more whose names appear in the daily media. In this collection the most influential indigenous leaders of our time provide analyses and reveal their passions for their people and land, and for the Australia we all want to call home. Our Land is Our Life is inspired by the twentieth anniversary of the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act, and coincides with the final year for lodgement of claims. As the ground is shifting beneath indigenous Australia, in a political sense, there is an even greater need to stand firm on the central issue of land rights. To forsake our land is to deny not just ourselves but also the future of Australia, socially, environmentally and culturally. This collection features valuable archival material, including photographs and cartoons, as well as landmark documents.
1 What I Have Seen At Gove Yunupingu , 1996 single work life story
— Appears in: Voices of Aboriginal Australia : Past, Present, Future 1996; (p. 334-335)
1 Concepts of Land and Spirituality Yunupingu , 1996 single work essay criticism
— Appears in: Aboriginal Spirituality : Past Present Future 1996; (p. 4-10) Galarrwuy Yunupingu talks about Aboriginal spirituality and compares it to different religions and religious beliefs.
1 What I See Yunupingu , 1994 single work essay
— Appears in: Republica , no. 1 1994; (p. 45-47)
1 An Aboriginal Treaty : Constitutional Guarantees Yunupingu , 1988 single work non-fiction
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , March vol. 7 no. 1 1988; (p. 25-26) 'This "Disposition to live in their own Country" - still the key to Aboriginal self determination - has been frustrated for us by European ownership of the law. Your laws say that you occupied our country by peaceful settlement, under the doctrine of Terra Nullius. The fact that hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal people have been killed through poison, disease, starvation and bullets make a mockery of peaceful settlement. The International Court of Justice, in its 1975 opinion on the Western Sahara case, put the doctrine of Terra Nullius, as it applies to territories with tribal inhabitants, into the rubbish bin of history.'
1 What the Aboriginal People Want Yunupingu , 1988 single work column
— Appears in: Images and Language '88 : Aboriginal Perspectives on a Celebration 1988; (p. 20)
1 2 The Barunga Statement Yunupingu , Wenten Rubuntja , 1988 single work non-fiction
— Appears in: Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 1147-1148)

Barunga settlement was originally known as Beswick Creek and the Indigenous people living on this site were relocated from Tandangal in 1948. The Barunga Statement was written on bark and it outlined the rights of the Indigenous people of Australia that had been denied them since invasion in 1788. The statement was handed to the then Prime Minister R.J.L. (Bob) Hawke on the 12 June 1988 and called upon the Federal Government to negotiate a treaty with Indigenous people and pass laws that sought recognition of their rights and addressed their disadvantages.
1 The Land Is the Art Yunupingu , 1979 single work prose
— Appears in: The Aborigines of Arnhem Land 1979; (p. 149) North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature 1991; (p. 151)
1 Tribal Land i "My boy, said the old Yirrkala man", Yunupingu , 1972 single work poetry
— Appears in: This Our Land 1972; (p. 5-6)
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