Clip 1: Western Education as Settler Colonialism (6:23 - 10:53, length: 4:30 mins)

Clip Description: The clip begins at 6:23 with Nana Carol and Dujuan in their home. The clip ends at 10:53 with Dujuan out with the Land, looking outwards.

Clip Summary: We are introduced to Dujuan’s healing powers and his Aborigional epistemologies of what it means to be a healer, what his purpose is within the community, and how he uses his gift. Nana Carol talks about how they would like to go back to their Sandy Bore ancestral homelands. However, she wants them to be “educated” in Alice Springs, which to her, means for her grandchildren and family to know the (education) system when they grow up.

We then get a glimpse of what traditional schools in Australia look like, what they teach, and the relationship between Aboriginal students and the school system. In this scene, we are introduced to “The Australia” book, which the teacher categorizes as“non-fiction” or factual information about the history of Australia. The book depicts the colonizers from England and their settlement on Aboriginal territory. Dujuan explicitly states that the education he gets at home, in their language, is about Aborigines whereas the schooling he gets in the classroom is for white people with a clip showing the way that Australia used education to continue settler colonial occupation. Dujuan reminds us and talks about how the colonizers are on stolen land.

Clip 2: Resurgence of Aboriginal Education Systems (15:53 - 24:43, length: 8:50 mins)

Clip Description: The clip begins at 15:53 with Dujuan entering school and in the classroom. The clip ends at 8:50 mins where we see Dujuan in the classroom wanting to leave Alice Springs.

Clip Summary: Schools, and in this case the teacher in the clip, include different stories from different cultures. However, in this instance the teacher in many ways seems to not truly validate these stories, even though a student mentions that these stories are real. We then see Dujuan in a vehicle once he receives back his grades where most of the feedback on his report states that he has “Very Limited Achievement” on almost all subject areas. After reviewing the teacher's feedback, he asks himself “Is there something wrong with me”. We can then start to speculate and see the impact this has on Dujuan and the lasting psychological impacts of western education.

Additionally, the clip demonstrates the common Juvenile “programs” in Australia, where the news that they are watching on TV discuss how youth as young as 10 years old are sent to juvenile centers that punish “troubled children” instead of providing resources for them.

Lastly, we see the teacher at the end of this scene put Dujuan in the time out corner while trying to control Dujuan’s body. This points to the way that schools are often involved in mechanisms and protocols that try to discipline the student’s body. Dujuan also mentions that he wants to go back to his homeland, far away from Alice Springs.

Clip 3: #LandBack (47:22-49:00, length: 1:38 min)

The clip begins at 47:22 with Dujuan and a relative speaking about their culture. The clip ends at 49:00 with Dujuan riding in a vehicle discussing what he wants to do when he grows up.

Now back with his father and his family, Dujuan is spending time on his ancestral homelands. A relative of his mentions that the world is difficult because you can lose your culture, and Dujuan mentions that in order to take back the land, to fight back, you have to know “white people and their stuff” so that you are able to take back what belongs to your family. The clip then takes us into a historical account of the protests and activism of Aboriginal people and their fight towards sovereignty, land and water rights, and rightful recognition. Dujuan comments on how when he grows up he wants to fight for Black people, how history runs in respect to all Aboriginals, and that when he gets the chance to meet the Prime Minister of Australia, he wants to to tell them to “Stop killing Aborignial people”.

Clip 4: Embodied Medicines & Sovereignty (3:39-6:12, length: 2:31 mins)

Clip Description: The clip begins at 3:39 with Dujuan out in the street talking about the history of Aboriginal people. The clip ends at 6:12 with Dujuan taking a bath in the Arrethe (bush medicine).

Clip Summary: Dujuan talks about how history runs in his blood, and how he has memories of the aborigional people and how he feels those memories. We then see a cutscene of Aboriginal people demanding that they want their ceremonies, their language to be taught, and their stories be listened to and told to their children.

The Arrethe (bush medicine) is commonly used in the Arrernte community and Dujuan talks about how that medicine heals sores on the inside. He also reminds us that before the cars, the houses, and everything else in the world was made, that all there was were the Aboriginals in Australia, meaning that the Aboriginal peoples are the original caretakers of what is now known as Australia. We see Nana Carol creating a bath made from the Arrethe that Dujuan picked earlier, and we see Dujuan bathing in the Arrethe and Nana Carol reminding Dujuan to speak in their language of Arrernte.