- Title
- Buffalo Legends
- Creator
- Ford, Margot; Motlap, Shane
- Relation
- Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand p. 17-21
- Relation
- http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/The%20arts/Film%20TV%20%20radio/Television/Making%20Film%20and%20Television%20Histories%20Australia%20and%20New%20Zealand.aspx
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Buffalo Legends (1997) is a documentary that tracks the stories of various players and their families in the mixed-race Australian Rules football team, the Buffaloes, in Darwin. Produced by Desmond Kootji Raymond, a local Larrakia man, and Paul Roberts, it provides a space for local Aboriginal people to tell their own stories about unjust treatment and inequities under the Aboriginal Ordinances in the Northern Territory. It also tells of ingenuity, resilience and humour in the face of those inequities. This documentary is not well known in Australia as evidenced by its absence from the list of Indigenous documentaries at Australian Screen Online. It deserves wider recognition because it foregrounds the multicultural experience 30 years prior to the official policy of multiculturalism that commenced in the 1970s. There are two significant interrelated themes in this documentary - the sporting prowess of Indigenous players and the way sport acted as a catalyst for political activism. Underpinning these themes is the history of racism and prejudice in twentieth century Australia.
- Subject
- Buffalo Legends; Indigenous experience; racism; Australian Rules football
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062111
- Identifier
- uon:17042
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781848859449
- Language
- eng
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