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Australia's ABC is the equiv of the US's PBS and UK's BBC. After the case was finally, finally put to bed in 2012 Lindy was interviewed remotely, facing the camera, at length. See the several uploads on YouTube. It's rather remarkable to get her articulate, philosophical take.
Nice voice; I preferred it to Streep's "strine" accent, which was not too authentic given Lindy's past. She and her late husband are/were both Kiwis, and she grew up in Victoria where the Aussie accent is quite mute. Sam Neill's father was a Kiwi too, and he grew up in NZ; his slight Aussie accent seemed on the mark.
That aside, it shows quite vividly just how damaging wrong media and justice system takes can be and how (sometimes) systems and attitudes evolve.
Aggressions by dingos are being reported at the rate of about one a month, as Australia dries out and their food supplies shrink. From the web: Efforts to help dingos include conservation programs like habitat protection and captive breeding. Other efforts focus on reducing human-wildlife conflict through public education, managing human food sources, and promoting non-lethal livestock protection methods for farmers. Additionally, some organizations provide direct care for displaced or abused dingoes through rescue and rehabilitation.
So incredibly sad though the saga is, the little girl did not die entirely in vain.
Nice voice; I preferred it to Streep's "strine" accent, which was not too authentic given Lindy's past. She and her late husband are/were both Kiwis, and she grew up in Victoria where the Aussie accent is quite mute. Sam Neill's father was a Kiwi too, and he grew up in NZ; his slight Aussie accent seemed on the mark.
That aside, it shows quite vividly just how damaging wrong media and justice system takes can be and how (sometimes) systems and attitudes evolve.
Aggressions by dingos are being reported at the rate of about one a month, as Australia dries out and their food supplies shrink. From the web: Efforts to help dingos include conservation programs like habitat protection and captive breeding. Other efforts focus on reducing human-wildlife conflict through public education, managing human food sources, and promoting non-lethal livestock protection methods for farmers. Additionally, some organizations provide direct care for displaced or abused dingoes through rescue and rehabilitation.
So incredibly sad though the saga is, the little girl did not die entirely in vain.
Viewers beware! The lackluster script here is historically wildly inaccurate in an insidious way.
The production team needed one of Hitchcock's McGuffins to hang the search for the traitor upon - and so we get this supposed "massacre" left hanging there, with almost no Native Americans in sight throughout the film. Amends for such fictions have long been overdue, but this movie steps back toward genocidal coverup.
In fact, in the real world, this is what was actually going on.
The nomadic great-plains tribes go back around 10,000 years. The Apache were one of the main nomadic groups. As with other nomads, in Arabia, north Africa and central Asia, they really liked the life. They had all they wanted from the vast bison herds, and could move south or north according to seasons of the year. They amassed a remarkable amount of science in their time.
In fact what the US military was in an increasingly barbaric manner trying to do, with aggressive pioneer help, was to stamp this nomadic life out, so that "pioneers" could fence off "their" lands, without actually paying anyone anything for them.
When European settlers arrived in the Americas, historians estimate there were over 10 million Native Americans living there. By 1900, their estimated population was under 300,000. More died than in the Jewish Holocaust.
Among the tactics used, one was to create reservations - often on poor land - and bottle up groups of Native Americans there, usually many miles from where they began. Every reservation was "protected" by a treaty. Pretty well every treaty was broken repeatedly by settlers and military.
A second was to massacre the bison on a vast scale, sometimes by shooting and even machine-gunning them from trains. To quote from the web: Before 1800, estimates range up to 100 million bison. By 1840 the population was estimated at 35,650,000. By 1870 it was estimated at 5,500,000. By the 1890s, fewer than 1,000 bison remained. And by 1905 there were 835 wild bison and 256 bison in captivity.
A third was forced "assimilation" involving tens of thousands of Native American children forcibly extracted from their families and communities, and sent to boarding schools to be brainwashed into Christianity. The worst schools persisted into the 1920s: nearly 1,000 children died.
A fourth involved distributing blankets from smallpox patients to Native Americans, in order to spread disease and so kill them.
A fifth involved European settlers being paid by US governance for each Native American that they killed.
A sixth involved forced marches, for example 4,000 Cherokee people died on the Trail of Tears, a forced march from the southern US to Oklahoma.
And a seventh was the demonization of Native Americans in showbiz as irrational, bloodthirsty savages. Lists of such movies on the Internet now run into the hundreds. Social and psychological afflictions are still often deadly.
All that... And yet the ignorant screenwriters blamed the NATIVE AMERICANS for "a massacre" ???
In fact, as the tribes mostly lacked rifles and horses, effective resistance against the barbarisms and thefts and REAL massacres was rare. In general the Native Americans suffered terribly, and many still do.
Watch HOSTILES instead. It is 10X the film.
The production team needed one of Hitchcock's McGuffins to hang the search for the traitor upon - and so we get this supposed "massacre" left hanging there, with almost no Native Americans in sight throughout the film. Amends for such fictions have long been overdue, but this movie steps back toward genocidal coverup.
In fact, in the real world, this is what was actually going on.
The nomadic great-plains tribes go back around 10,000 years. The Apache were one of the main nomadic groups. As with other nomads, in Arabia, north Africa and central Asia, they really liked the life. They had all they wanted from the vast bison herds, and could move south or north according to seasons of the year. They amassed a remarkable amount of science in their time.
In fact what the US military was in an increasingly barbaric manner trying to do, with aggressive pioneer help, was to stamp this nomadic life out, so that "pioneers" could fence off "their" lands, without actually paying anyone anything for them.
When European settlers arrived in the Americas, historians estimate there were over 10 million Native Americans living there. By 1900, their estimated population was under 300,000. More died than in the Jewish Holocaust.
Among the tactics used, one was to create reservations - often on poor land - and bottle up groups of Native Americans there, usually many miles from where they began. Every reservation was "protected" by a treaty. Pretty well every treaty was broken repeatedly by settlers and military.
A second was to massacre the bison on a vast scale, sometimes by shooting and even machine-gunning them from trains. To quote from the web: Before 1800, estimates range up to 100 million bison. By 1840 the population was estimated at 35,650,000. By 1870 it was estimated at 5,500,000. By the 1890s, fewer than 1,000 bison remained. And by 1905 there were 835 wild bison and 256 bison in captivity.
A third was forced "assimilation" involving tens of thousands of Native American children forcibly extracted from their families and communities, and sent to boarding schools to be brainwashed into Christianity. The worst schools persisted into the 1920s: nearly 1,000 children died.
A fourth involved distributing blankets from smallpox patients to Native Americans, in order to spread disease and so kill them.
A fifth involved European settlers being paid by US governance for each Native American that they killed.
A sixth involved forced marches, for example 4,000 Cherokee people died on the Trail of Tears, a forced march from the southern US to Oklahoma.
And a seventh was the demonization of Native Americans in showbiz as irrational, bloodthirsty savages. Lists of such movies on the Internet now run into the hundreds. Social and psychological afflictions are still often deadly.
All that... And yet the ignorant screenwriters blamed the NATIVE AMERICANS for "a massacre" ???
In fact, as the tribes mostly lacked rifles and horses, effective resistance against the barbarisms and thefts and REAL massacres was rare. In general the Native Americans suffered terribly, and many still do.
Watch HOSTILES instead. It is 10X the film.
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