On Sacred Ground

On Sacred Ground looks at the story behind the Noonkanbah dispute the wellpublicised Aboriginal struggle to stop mining in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the late 1970s Presented by a young spokesman for the Kimberley Land Council the film gives an Indigenous view of the areas history from the early days of European colonisation It explores the problems of Aboriginal dispossession and loss of identity and the efforts that have been made towards selfdetermination economic selfsufficiency and maintaining language and culture It helps explain Aboriginal ties to the land the importance of sacred sites and the reasons for the land rights struggle