Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art and Native Title Land Claim

• Published in: Arts
• Main Author: Marie Geissler
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: indigenous Australian art; native title; Mabo land title; Eddie Mabo; Yirrkala Bark Petition; terra nullius; Ngurrara Canvas; Yirrkala Saltwater Collection; Barunga Agreement; Aboriginal Land Rights; bark painting; indigenous acrylic painting; Arnhem land bark painting; Papunya Tula; cultural evidence; human rights; Yolngu culture; Buku-Larrnggay Mulka; First Nations Australians; Dreaming and the Law; indigenous Australian activism; Ochre; Tula; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/arts10020032

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...