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Benny and the dreamers

An elderly traditional Aboriginal and his family members recall the impact of their tribe's first contant with white people in the 1930s. This program traces the reactions of a people whose culture had survived for 40,000 years only to be changed by early white settlers.

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  • "Benny & the dreamers"@en
  • "Dreamtime, Benny and the dreamers"@en

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  • "An elderly traditional Aboriginal and his family members recall the impact of their tribe's first contact with white people in the 1930s. This program traces the reactions of a people whose culture had survived for 40,000 years only to be changed by early white settlers."
  • "Summary: As a boy, Benny Tjapaltjarri lived in a traditional aboriginal society with no contact with the outside world. Shows the history of the Pintubi people's contact with white society and the almost total destruction of their traditional way of life. Benny and the other elders are trying to rebuild their culture at Kintore."
  • "An elderly traditional Aboriginal and his family members recall the impact of their tribe's first contant with white people in the 1930s. This program traces the reactions of a people whose culture had survived for 40,000 years only to be changed by early white settlers."@en
  • "An elderly traditional Aboriginal and his family members recall the impact of their tribe's first contant with white people in the 1930s. This program traces the reactions of a people whose culture had survived for 40,000 years only to be changed by early white settlers."
  • "A small group of Pintupi living in west Central Australia today can remember their first meeting with a white man, their first impressions of the white man's world and their expectations of what the white world had to offer. Benny and the Dreamers reveals for the first time on film the Australian Aboriginal peoples' version of their first contact with white culture which was to change their traditional way of life forever. For some it was a terrifying experience, for others a fascinating view of a world which made little sense. But for all Aboriginal people, white contact brought the end of a nomadic way of life which had lasted for at least 40,000 years. In Benny and the Dreamers, Benny Tjapaljarri and other Pintupi elders tell their stories of life before and after "whitefellas". Through the use of rare archival footage, their journey is recreated from the central western deserts to their transformation from traditional nomad in a hunter gatherer society to sedentary consumer of white flour and sugar. Through dramatic retelling of the stories, Benny and the Dreamers weaves its way into the nightmare of assimilation that became Papunya, the killing fields of alcohol, to the eventual rejection of European life and the return of Aboriginal land at Kintore."@en
  • "As a boy, Benny Tjapaltjarri lived in a traditional aboriginal society with no contact with the outside world. Shows the history of the Pintubi people's contact with white society and the almost total destruction of their traditional way of life. Benny and the other elders are trying to rebuild their culture at Kintore."@en
  • "As a boy, Benny Tjapaltjarri lived in a traditional Aboriginal society with no contact with the outside world. Shows the history of the Pintubi people's contact with white society and the almost total destruction of their traditional way of life. Benny and the other elders are trying to rebuild their culture at Kintore."

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