Utopia (Australia)
A Utopia station is an area of 5,000 square kilometers inhabited by Aborigines and is located 240 kilometers northeast of Alice Springs in the Australian state of Northern Territory . It is inhabited by about 2000 people in 25 small and large settlements along the Sandover River in the cultural area of the Western Desert . The Sandover Highway , an unpaved road , leads into this area .
Surname
The first white settlers were Germans who came to this area in the 1920s. They named the area Utopia because they could catch the rabbits that lived there by hand and thus had enough meat to eat. The following places are located in the Utopia area today in 2009: Arlparra as the central settlement, Atneltye, Lyenty, Atnarare, Arrawarre, Irrultja, Ingkwelaye, Ankerrapwe and Artekerre.
Utopia Community
Earlier cattle station from the 1920s, was purchased by the government in 1975 and the previous owners of this land, the tribes of Anmatyerre and Alyawarre , retranslated suitable. These tribes still predominantly speak their own Australian languages and some English.
When the European settlers settled, the Aborigines were forced to leave their traditional tribal areas and live not far in the settlements near the whites. There the men hired themselves as drovers and the women in white households for food and clothing. When the Australian government enforced equal treatment of black and white pay in 1967, many Aborigines were left without work.
The indigenous Australians of this area are still deeply rooted in the traditional traditions and rituals of their tribes and live them.
Artist
In the 1970s, the movement for the native title (land rights) of the original owners emerged and artists played an important role here, as they not only got involved, but also represented the role and ancestral land rights of the Aborigines with their work and thus strengthened their self-confidence . The Aborigines of Utopia succeeded in obtaining full land rights over their tribal area in 1981.
Artists of this settlement, especially women who made batiks , formed a group of 8 women in 1988. Because of the quality of the work, 88 batik works by the Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide were shown in an exhibition in 1989. When the handicraft of making batik lost its importance, the first works on canvas were created by women who painted with acrylic paints . Emily Kngwarreye , a painter who later became well known and successful, was one of the leading figures in this development towards art at the time.
Today around 200 artists who are known beyond Australia live in this region. In addition to Emily Kame Kngwarreye and her daughter Barbara Weir, these are Kathleen Petyarre , Gloria Petyarre, Ada Bird, Edie Holmes, Michelle Holmes, Gloria Ngal, Poly Ngal and Minnie Pwerle .
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Individual evidence
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Coordinates: 22 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 134 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E