Gurindji
The Gurindji are a tribe of Aboriginal people in northern Australia who live 460 km southwest of Katherine in the Northern Territory in the Victoria River region . The Gurindji are very well known in Australia because they carried out the so-called Gurindji Strike, as a result of which they were given back their ancestral land rights.
society
The Gurindji is the best known Aboriginal community in Australia because it carried out the Gurindji strike , which Vincent Lingiari led in 1966.
Their land was returned to them in 1975 by Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and granted a non-transferable title to the entire Wave Hill Cattle Station , a total of 3,250 square kilometers of their tribal area. This success paved the way for the acquisition of further Native titles (rights to land) of the Aborigines in Australia.
Wave Hill Cattle Station is about 600 km south of Darwin . The name of this ranching station went down in Australian history as the Wave Hill Walk-Off , Gurindji Strike.
The Gurindji share a lot in common in language and culture with their neighbors, the Warlpiri .
Settlements
Gurindji communities formed in Kalkaringi and Daguragu . The Daguragu Community Government Council operates community and other services for Kalkaringi and the surrounding area (formerly Wave Hill) and for Daguragu, a community that settled in the countryside after the Land Rights Act was passed .
The size of the place Kalkaringi is 260 hectares . It was run like an open city in September 1976, and permits were not required for residents or visitors. Kalkaringi is on the Buntine Highway , which is between Top Springs and Halls Creek .
Daguragu is eight kilometers north of Kalkaringi on a paved road. To visit Daguragu, a permit is required from the traditional owners issued by the Central Land Council . Daguragu became the first ranching station owned and operated by an Aboriginal community. It belongs to the Murramulla Gurindji Company .
The council also oversees a number of outstations where the traditional owners reside. The traditional owners belong to the Gurindji language group. There are also other residents in Daguragu and Kalkaringi who belong to a different language group, including the Warlpiri. The population of the place of Daguragu and Kalkaringi is about 700 Aborigines.
Freedomday
In August every year there is a big festival held in Kalkarinji to celebrate the anniversary of the Gurindij strike and to repeat the march. The day is known as "Freedom Day".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.freedomday.info/ Freedom Day