ethnographic research

Running head : WARLPIRI VALUES

How Warlpiri people adhere to their values as a group

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While the Australian Warlpiri people of Western Australia need to live within the laws and values of the Australian Government , as do all citizens living in Australia , preliminary conclusions show their lives also relate strongly to their community values , which are based on ngurra-kurlu , the `five pillars of society

The Warlpiri people first made contact with non-Aboriginal Australians in the late nineteenth century . By the time they were finally extracted from the

bush , the missionaries were being replaced by communities (Wikipedia ) Most of the Warlpiri people were placed in an Aboriginal settlement called Yuendumu , about 290 km north west of Alice Springs but because the settlement was becoming overcrowded , in 1948 the Australian Federal Government decided to erect an Aboriginal Reserve at a waterhole 600 km north at Catfish (Ozoutback .com

Once the road to Catfish was finished , the Welfare ed 25 Warlpiri people into a truck and took them as far as Hooker Creek where they camped . Because there was a bore and the water was flowing they decided to stay there instead of at Catfish , which was about 30 km further on and another 400 Warlpiri were transported there . Later , the Hooker Creek dried up , but by then the settlement was already established and a further 150 Warlpiri people were transported there in 1951 (Ozoutback .com

The people were not happy to be taken away from their relatives , their country (land...