1967, 49 Minutes

When this film was made, there was still a handful of family groups living a nomadic life somewhere in the heart of the Gibson Desert. Desert People tells of a day in the life of two such families. Djagamara and his family were filmed where they had camped, beside an unusually plentiful supply of water in an otherwise dry creek bed at Badjar in the Clutterbuck Hills. Minma and his family were taken back to Minma's country from Warburton Mission to record how they had lived until just a few months before. This extraordinary film offers a rich experience of Aboriginal culture as the families share their traditional knowledge. The footage is part of an extensive film record titled People of the Australian Western Desert.

An Australian National Film Board Production. Produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

Made from sections of the documentary People of the Autralian Western Desert, Desert People is a more general interpretive program than the longer, multi-part film.

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John Martin-Jones

Ian Dunlop

Ian Dunlop

Ian Dunlop

Level: Secondary, Tertiary, Lifelong Learning

Of particular relevance for NSW History Stage 4 'Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Colonisation and Contact History: What can we learn about Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples?'

Film Australia's Outback DVD, People of the Australian Western Desert, Two Desert Families