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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Buwarrala Akarriya, Journey East
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The story of the Yanyuwa people from Borroloola in the Northern Territory and their 90-kilometre walk over the course of a week back to the place of their ancestors.

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Journey East Annie Karrakayn , Dinah Norman Marrangawi , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1994; (p. 24-37)

"The following song was composed during the late 1988 and early 1989. It is a lengthy song which relates to incidents during the making of the film Buwarrala Akarriya (Journey East), when thirty Yanyuwa people and a film crew walked from Borroloola to Manangoora ... The whole event centred around the re-creation of taking ... initiates to Manangoora for the ceremonies which would make them men." (Bradley, J. J., Journey East in Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and othe Aboriginal Song Poems, University of Queensland Press, 1994, p 23)

Journey East Annie Karrakayn , Dinah Norman Marrangawi , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1994; (p. 24-37)

"The following song was composed during the late 1988 and early 1989. It is a lengthy song which relates to incidents during the making of the film Buwarrala Akarriya (Journey East), when thirty Yanyuwa people and a film crew walked from Borroloola to Manangoora ... The whole event centred around the re-creation of taking ... initiates to Manangoora for the ceremonies which would make them men." (Bradley, J. J., Journey East in Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and othe Aboriginal Song Poems, University of Queensland Press, 1994, p 23)

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