Post by pim on Jun 14, 2015 18:11:17 GMT 10
I'll be watching! I wonder if it'll be as good as the Women of the Sun mini series of four episodes which was first shown in the early 1980s. Each episode portrayed a different indigenous woman from four different periods in Australian history. The first episode was about first contact and is called "Alinta the Flame". A tribe in Gippsland in the early 1800s featuring a group from Arnhem Land who played the tribe and used the Arnhem Land language (Yolngu?) to represent the now extinct Gippsland tribal language has a young girl, Alinta, who is preparing to meet her future husband for the first time. They encounter a pair of exhausted escaped convicts, the first whitefellas they've ever seen. They adopt the convicts and a powerful contrast is set up between the operation of tribal law as it applies to the whitefellas, and the subsequent treatment of the tribe by whitefellas when they arrive in force. Superb. So I'll have a basis for comparison.
