What was the cost to David Gulpilil of leaving his people and his ancestral Arnhem Land homeland to dance across the silver screen and into Australia's heart as our most treasured Indigenous actor?

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When filmmaker Maggie Miles asked this question of one of the late actor's kin, she was greeted with a smile.

"He didn't leave," she was told. "He was called to another life, and he carried his culture with him wherever he went. It's not as if he went off and became John Wayne. In all of his roles, he carried his culture with him."

Now, even in death, the trailblazing star of landmark feature films like Walkabout , Storm Boy and Crocodile

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