Under the Shadow of the Black Knight Pt 3: separation from country |
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| Title : | Under the Shadow of the Black Knight Pt 3: separation from country |
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| Creator : | Isabel J Dingaman Taylor | ||
| Place Of Creation : | SA | ||
| Date of creation : | 2008 | ||
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| Description : |
I can still remember mum and my grandmothers calling out to everybody, warning them, saying 'gubbi boorlga ngulayunjinyi' (big water coming) rain, and watch out for 'puyu iridtia', (poison smoke coming), Maralinga. My family were slowly pushed off their country ever since the pastoralists moved in, and by the early 1930s, most of them had either passed away or had been forced to move to other areas to live. It was the coming of the Woomera Rocket Range, the Maralinga bomb, many smaller bomb tests and the animosity by government and pastoralists that really caused their separation from country. I spent most of my early life growing up in Andamooka Opal Fields. |
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| Period : | 1946-1979 |
| Place : | Roxby Downs Station, Woomera, Mt Eba Station in SA on Kokatha country. |
| Region : | Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback |
| Further reading : | Weapons in the wilderness: the exploitation of the north-west of South Australia Adelaide: Anti Bases Campaign (SA) Inc, c1991 |
| Internet links : | AIATSIS Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
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