What was Dr Coombs thinking? Nyirrpi, policy and the future

What was Dr Coombs thinking? Nyirrpi, policy and the future Book Section

Experiments in Self-Determination

  • Author(s): Peterson, Nicolas
  • Secondary Author(s): Peterson, Nicolas, Myers, Fred
  • Published: 2016
  • Publisher: ANU Press
  • ISBN: 9781925022902

Abstract: On 5 May 1972, I set out from Yuendumu with six older Warlpiri men on my first bush trip to visit the Waite Creek area on the southern portion of Mount Doreen Station, more than 400 km west of Alice Springs. We visited a number of sites, including the important sacred site of Warntungurru, belonging to people of the J/Nampijinpa-J/Nangala patricouple, marked by a metre-high vertical stone 100 m or so from the creek. We drove south alongside the creek on a station track, stopping off to see various soakages in the creek bed. One of these places was Nyirrpi, a soakage at the edge of the creek adjacent to a clump of trees that formed a very small island in the middle of it, approximately 125 km from Yuendumu as the crow flies. It was remote, the nearest occupied place being the station homestead 40 km to the north.

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