Gurindji Strike

The Gurinidji Strike or Wave Hill walk-off was a 10-year-long indigenist strike on a large farm over the rights of working class aboriginal australians Kalkarindji, Australia from 1966 to 1976.
== Background ==
As Europeans began to colonize territory, they destroy aboriginal systems of common ownership and began replacing them with systems of private property. Waterholes and soakages fenced off or fouled by cattle, which also ate or trampled fragile desert plant life, such as bush tomato Dingo hunters regularly shot the people's invaluable hunting dogs, and kangaroo, a staple meat, was also routinely shot since it competed with cattle for water and grazing land. 
Guindji suffered lethal "reprisals" for any attempt to eat the cattle – anything from a skirmish to a massacre. The last recorded massacre in the area occurred at Coniston in 1928. There was little choice to stay alive but to move into the capitalist economy through cattle stations, receive rations, adopt a more sedentary life and, where possible, take work as stockmen and domestic help.Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_Hill_walk-off#Gurindji_and_the_pastoralists Aboriginal strikers were frequently harassed and recieved worse pay and conditions compared to white workers.
== Events ==
Beginning on the 23rd of August 1966, workers and families from the Ngarinman, Bilinara, Warlpiri and Mudbara nations went on strike for better pay and living conditions, but soon they began to change their demands for the returning of aboriginal land. Trade unionists, church groups, student organizations and leftists across the country provided support for the movement, sending donations and aid to support and feed the strikers as solidarity protests were held all over the country.
== Results ==
For the first time recognition was given of Indigenous people, their rights and responsibilities for the land, and their ability to practice their law, language and culture.Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_Hill_walk-off#Legacy_of_the_strike
== References ==
Category:Aboriginal Australians
Category:Australia
Category:Indigeinism
Category:Strikes