"The Sapphires" Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Yorta Yorta word for a white man
  2. 4. The singing group in the movie is called The ____
  3. 7. The city The Sapphires landed in (now called Ho Chi Min City)
  4. 9. Kay is returned back to her traditional home with a _____ ceremony by her family
  5. 11. The assassination of ____ ____ ____, Jr occurred while the Sapphires were in Vietnam
  6. 13. The name of the communist army that Australia and US were fighting during the Vietnam War
  7. 15. Mixed (or ______) marriages were prevented in Australia until the end of "protection laws" in the 1960s and 1970s
  8. 18. The Sapphires takes place in 1968, one year after the 1967 ______ that allowed the federal government to count Aboriginal Australians in the constitution
  9. 19. The Aboriginal Australian language used in the film
  10. 21. The Sapphires played ____ music, which is traditionally seen as a music genre made by and played for African-American communities
  11. 22. The movie begins with footage of the Australian ______ Rides in 1939
Down
  1. 2. The policy of forcing Aboriginal Australians into non-indigenous schools to learn European skills (and remove them from their traditional culture)
  2. 3. The policy of moving Aboriginal Australian onto land far away from non-Indigenous communities
  3. 5. The policy of treating Aboriginal Australians like children, because it was believed bu non-Indigenous authorities they could not take care of themselves
  4. 6. The Aboriginal Australian family in the film lived on the ____ Mission in Victoria
  5. 8. The _____ War was one of the most unpopular wars in Australia's history, causing mass protests throughout the 1960s
  6. 10. The Sapphires were previously called the Cummeragunja ______
  7. 12. The movie is set at Cummeragunja, which was the location of the first Aboriginal Australian _____ in 1939
  8. 14. Dave was not _____ in the movie because it would not become legal in Australia until 1975
  9. 16. The Sapphires were hired to sing by the US _____ in Vietnam
  10. 17. Yorta Yorta (and other Aboriginal Australian language dialect) for excellent or good
  11. 18. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr was followed by ___ in the US
  12. 20. Drugs, alcohol abuse and suicide were ____ among soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War