Thoughts on the ‘Law of the Land’ and the Persistence of Aboriginal Law in Australia

Wantarri Steve Jampijimpa Patrick, Mary Spiers Williams*

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    Abstract

    Warlpiri people have lived in their homelands for countless generations. Western Europeans began to intrude into these places only a century ago. Since that first contact, kardiya have shot, poisoned, forcibly relocated, and enslaved yapa. They have imposed foreign ideas upon yapa, and despised yapa ways of being—ceremonies, language, relationships, connection to country, cosmology, and law (Reynolds 1987, 1989). Some Warlpiri call this ngurra-kurlu (Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu et al. 2008). It is the Warlpiri way of being, and order of things.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPalgrave Socio-Legal Studies
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
    Pages143-157
    Number of pages15
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018

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    NamePalgrave Socio-Legal Studies
    ISSN (Print)2947-9274
    ISSN (Electronic)2947-9282

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