Warburton (Western Australia)
The settlement Warburton Aboriginal Australia is in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia, 1050 km southwest of Alice Springs and 560 kilometers northeast of the town Laverton. Warburton can be reached via the Outback Highway and Gunbarrel Highway. Warburton is known that there are numerous Aboriginal painter, and that the resulting there Warburton Art Project is an opportunity for the Aboriginal people, their culture and habits to live by our own power and without government assistance.
History
The Aboriginal people of the Ngaanyatjarra who lived in the central Australian desert were, for millennia nomads who wandered through the desert in search of water and food. When European missionaries came there, this changed and the Aborigines settled in Warburton from 1933. The missionary Will Wade founded a mission station and named it after the explorer Peter Warburton, who crossed the first European to the Great Sandy Desert.
In 1954 lived between 500 and 700 Aboriginal in the place where there were kindergartens and schools. They learned English and the missionaries wanted to teach them European culture. The women and girls of Aboriginevolkes dominated the sowing, cooking and housekeeping. The men lived by hunting after the Dingo skins. There was a copper mine, where the men worked and the last nomads of the central desert settled around 1970.
The Ngaanyatjarra 1973 received an undertaking by the Australian Government on their traditional lands for a period of 99 years. The Ngaanyatjarra Council, founded by them was the management of the traditional country and this administration built an air carrier, a construction company, a road construction company and a shipping company to transport food successfully. These companies are run by the Aborigines.
Life and work
In Warburton, there is a total ban on alcohol and tourists need to enter the village permission.
There are in Warburton, a school for children and a Ngaanyatjarra Community College, which was opened in August 1996 in order to give the adults a chance to education. A health center with four nurses, a Warburton Roadhouse with accommodation and twelve campsites located there. Furthermore, the Warburton Recording Studio of fourteen young Aborigine is operated producing videos for the local market.
The aborigines in Warburton go as they used to hunt, gather edible and feed according to the old traditional habits. The tribal elders, the so-called Elders teach the young Aboriginal traditional hunting, gathering and cooking in the bush.
Warburton Art Project
In order to maintain their culture and maintain the Ngaanyatjarra People founded in 1990, the Warburton Arts Project. This project includes not only the settlement Warburton, but further settlements Karilwara ( Patjarr ) Wingellina ( Irrunytju ), Blackstone ( Papulankutja ) Kiwirrkura, Jameson ( Mantamaru ) Tjirrkarli, Wanarn, Tjukurla and Warakurna. It is a conscious effort in this project, not to change the culture of its population of Aboriginal or influence, but that their very own dream time is retained and can be lived. The project built therefore in Warburton own art gallery with a painter's workshop on where the Aboriginal people to exhibit their works of art. Meanwhile, a selection of 350 images of acrylic is shown in a gallery building. Warburton is not only a Malkunstprojekt, but there are also artistic glassworks created. The glass works represent both works of art and objects of everyday life dar. Because the project requires a stable economic base.
In addition, there are other initiatives: A rock program with singing and dancing was built, performances with their own ceremonies, publications and the organization of exhibitions are also on this. Artist for this project created in numerous galleries as Araluen Arts Centre, Artbank, Australian Heritage Commission, Australian High Commission in Malaysia, ArtsWA, Curtin University, Chase Manhattan Bank, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, WA Museum, from.