Alyawarre
The Aboriginal tribes Alyawarre and Anmatyerre live on the northwestern border of Utopia in what is now the Northern Territory in Australia , more than 250 kilometers from Alice Springs . Most of the Alyawarre lives in Utopia, an artist settlement in the desert. The Alyawarre are part of an Aboriginal language group, the Alyawarre language.
country
As long as the Alyawarre live in this area, it is remote and sparsely populated. You first sighted a European in the 1920s. In the land of the Anmatyerre and Alyawarre, a 2065 square kilometer cattle breeding station was established in 1927. The European colonialists pushed the Aborigines out of their land and the places where they held their traditional ceremonies.
The alyawarre were pushed into small areas near the farms and the men had to work as drovers and the women in the settlers' households. They were paid out in food, sugar rations and used clothes, or they fared even worse: “ At the end of twelve months, we finished the branding, we used to get ration. No money. Two pack of flour, sugar, tobacco ... ”(German: At the end of twelve months we stopped branding cattle and we wanted to get our ration. No money. Two packages of flour, sugar, tobacco ...).
The Alyawarre behaved passively and did not defend themselves: “ Like most Aboriginal societies who wished to maintain their spiritual links with their traditional land after it was overrun by white pastoralists, the Alyawarre found it necessary to work for the usurpers simply in order to survive. “ (German: Like most Aboriginal communities who wanted to keep in touch with their land after overran the white settlers, they worked for the occupiers to survive.)
The government repurchased the large ranching land in 1975 and in 1980 the two ethnic groups requested the repatriation of their land and on October 22, 1992 it was repossessed.
Today around 1000 people live in 25 settlements in this area, with the population per settlement varying between 20 and 100 people. About 200 artists from the Alyawarre tribe such as Emily Kngwarreye , Minnie Pwerle and Kathleen Petyarre live among this group of people .
In the Alyawarre and Anmatyerre settlements in Utopia, alcohol and the dissemination of pornographic images are prohibited.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b We Are Staying - the Alyawarre Struggle for Land at Lake Nash
- ↑ Page of clc.org.au over land disputes ( Memento of 27 October 2010 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Page from icnn.com.au on the prohibition of pornographic writings ( memento of the original from September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
