The award winning story of the remarkable life of an extraordinary man: Eddie Koiki Mabo. Filmmaker Trevor Graham, a friend of Mabo, portrays Mabo�s struggle to have his ownership of property on Mer (Murray Island) legally recognized, and how that claim grew into a case that changed indigenous rights in Australia.

Eddie Koiki Mabo was born on Murray Island, but lived most of his life in exile on mainland Australia.  On June 3, 1992, five months after Eddie Mabo died tragically of cancer, the High Court of Australia upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held 'Native Title' to three islands on the eastern fringe of the Torres Strait.  After more than 200 years, Australian law had to recognize pre-existing indigenous law.

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