Editing David Gulpilil (section)

===Dance===
Perhaps the most renowned traditional dancer in Australia, Gulpilil organised troupes of dancers and musicians and performed at festivals throughout the country. He won the prestigious Darwin Australia Day [[Eisteddfod]] dance competition four times.<ref name="naa"/> 

In 1979, Gulpilil and another dancer, Dick Plummer, were accompanied by master didgeridu player [[David Blanasi]] and his musical partner, songman [[Djoli Laiwanga]], on a tour to Europe, stopping at [[Hawaii]] en route. There, they performed at an [[Australia Day]] function on the lawn of the Australian Consular Residence in [[Honolulu]] on  29 January 1979. Part of their performance was filmed by [[CSIRO]] scientist Gavin Gillman, and is in the collection of the [[National Film and Sound Archive of Australia]].<ref name=gulpilil1979>{{cite web | title=Rare footage of David Gulpilil dancing, 1979 |first= Beth |last=Taylor| website=[[National Film and Sound Archive of Australia]] | date=29 January 1978 | url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/99908-rare-footage-david-gulpilil-dancing-1979 | access-date=16 March 2025| format=video + text| others= Filmed by Gavin Gillman| author2= Gillman, Gavin}}</ref>

In November 1997, Gulipilil's [[dance troupe]] performed at the second National Aboriginal Dance Conference in [[Adelaide]] (hosted by the [[National Aboriginal Dance Council Australia]] (NADCA).<ref name=1999fund>{{cite web | title=Arts Sponsorship – Regional Arts Fund – August 1999 Round | website=PAWA | date=20 January 2000| url=http://www.pawa.com.au/news/20000120_arts_reg.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020320014108/http://www.pawa.com.au/news/20000120_arts_reg.shtml | archive-date=20 March 2002 | url-status=dead }}</ref>) The conference included discussions of [[Indigenous cultural and intellectual property|cultural and intellectual property rights]] and [[copyright in Australia|copyright issues for Australian Indigenous dancers]]. A free concert was given in [[Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka]].<ref>{{cite magazine | title= Deadly Dancing |page=8 |magazine=Tandanya Warra Yellakka, The Newsletter of the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Inc | publisher=[[Tandanya]] | date=January 1998| url=http://www.tandanya.on.net/mag/page8.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010513112057/http://www.tandanya.on.net/mag/page8.htm | archive-date=13 May 2001 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The troupe was given a {{AUD|9,000}} grant from the [[Northern Territory Government]] to attend the third conference<ref name=1999fund/> in [[Sydney]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://ausdance.org.au/?ACT=73&file=1382 |format=PDF | publisher= [[Ausdance]]|magazine=Asia Pacific Channels: The Newsletter of the World Dance Alliance: Asia Pacific Center|title=3rd National Aboriginal Dance Conference, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW, Thursday – Sunday, 18–21 November 1999| pages=6, 7|date =June 1999| issn =1328-2115| quote=...funded by the Dance Fund of the [[Australia Council]]}}</ref>
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"At a conference in [[Adelaide]] in the summer of 2000, Gulpilil performed traditional dances and shared his story with hundreds of Indigenous young people. He continued to provide [[mentorship]] to them, while lending his support to social and political causes such as the pursuit of tribal land claims for Indigenous people. In the early 2000s he joined other Australian artists in calling for government recognition of, and compensation for, the suffering of the "[[Stolen Generation]]" – children of mixed European and Aboriginal parentage who were forcibly removed from their Indigenous families and placed in mission schools or with white adoptive parents far from their kin and homelands.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}"   end Nov 2021 editor's note -->