Pioneering Outstation

1998 Old Andy Tjungurrayi worked with the European Owners of the MT Wedge Cattle Station Lease and the Central Land Council http://www.clc.org.au/ to Claim his ancestral lineage to this vast landscape.
Old Andy camped with a car drawn water tank and bomb vehicles on his land, as the time consuming Land Claims preceded through the Courts.
Eventually the Claim was authorized and a Water Bore unit searched for suitable artesian supplies of good water.
Eventually site was chosen and the 3 small steel huts on cement slabs were installed and Karrinyarra was established.
Old Andy and Entalura Nangala along with his son in law Richard Swan Tjakamarra and Nora Napaltjarri pioneered life in this independent life style.
With Tjungurrayi’s passing, he became the first traditional elder to be legally returned and buried on his traditional land.
From the outstation the Central Mt Wedge cluster of ranges maintain an enduring presence.
The families look towards these mountains and speak up the story that all the Napaltjarri’s and Tjapaltjarri’s came from those sacred sites about the ranges.
The Creation Rainbow Snakes/ 2 Tjungurrayi Brothers still are present in Monolithic Rocks formation next to primary water sources.
Ancestral heritage teaches law and maintenance ceremonies for this land and songs, dance, visual icons of body paint and ground paint, kinship are all the heritage of their grandmothers and grandfathers extending back into the Jukurrpa/ the Dreaming.