Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art and Native Title Land Claim

• Published in: Arts
• Main Author: Marie Geissler
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021
• Subjects: indigenous Australian art; native title; Mabo land title; Eddie Mabo; Yirrkala Bark Petition; terra nullius; Arts in general; NX1-820; Ochre; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/arts10020032; https://doaj.org/article/baff8365a84e4d7195883e5267f4fb9a

This paper investigates a select number of examples in which largely non-literate First Nation peoples of Australia, like some First Nations peoples around the world, when faced with a judicial challenge to present evidence in court to support their land title claim, have drawn on their cultural mat...