Desert Tracks
Clip 1: Tourism
1 min 42 sec
Taken from the short film Desert Tracks (1997)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
Please be aware that this clip may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.
Curator’s clip description
An elder speaks about the choice to use tourism as a vehicle through which to make culture economically viable, as well as preserving it for future generations. In order to ensure the preservation of cultural practice, cultural knowledge is made accessible to the wider community.
Curator’s notes
The sense of pride in country and the importance of communicating the primacy of the land as central to existence come through strongly in the philosophy behind ‘Desert Tracks’ as both a business and cultural practice. The need to peacefully reach out to people of different cultures and welcome them to the Pitjantjatjara homelands so that caring for country can continue is the motivating force of Desert Tracks.
Romaine Moreton, curator
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