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