What is Papunya, Northern Territory?
{{Location map|Northern Territory |lat_deg=23|lat_min=13|lat_dir=S |lon_deg=131|lon_min=54|lon_dir=E |caption=Location of Papunya}} '''Papunya''' is a small community in central [[Australia]]. It is about {{convert|240|km|abbr=on}} northwest of [[Alice Springs]] in the [[Northern Territory]]. The people who live there are [[Australian Aborigine|Aboriginal]] people who were forced off their traditional country during the 1930s and 1940s. They are mainly from [[Pintupi]]- and [[Luritja]]-speaking groups. In the 2006 [[census]], Papunya had a population of 299. The town is now on private Aboriginal land. People visiting or travelling through need a [[permit]]. During the late 1950s, a [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] [[Mission (Christianity)|mission]] was set up at Papunya. In the 1970s, many of the people living here moved back to their homelands as part of the [[outstation movement]]. The Pintupi moved back west, closer to their homeland around [[Lake Mackay]]. They set up the town of [[Kintore]] in 1981, about {{convert|250|km|abbr=on}} west of Papunya. During this time, local [[painter]]s were slowly forming a new style of art. By the mid-1980s, it became internationally known as [[Papunya Tula]].<ref>[http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/papunya_painting/home Papunya Painting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525031024/http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/papunya_painting/home |date=2012-05-25 }}, National Museum of Australia</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{coord|23|13|S|131|54|E|type:city|display=title}} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Towns in the Northern Territory]] [[Category:Indigenous Australian communities]] [[Category:Pintupi]] [[Category:1950s establishments in Australia]]