Bruce Lee was the unlikely hero of 70s Noongar kids. Now he's helping us share our language | Barry McGuire

We recognised ourselves in that non-white superhero on the big screen. We knew there was a fight in him – and knew there was a fight in us

As Noongar kids in the Western Australian wheatbelt town of Kellerberrin, we grew up with blue-eyed comic book superheroes and black-and-white TV shows about cowboys and Indians.

Back in the 1970s, the heroes they showed us didn’t look like the heroes we grew up with – our grandfathers, aunts, uncles and parents who loved us and taught us to be strong.

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