Remembrance of things past inspires vision of country ways and desert days
Andra Jackson; 11/10/08
As one of Western Australia’s last “desert people”, Rita Simpson’s early life was spent roaming from waterhole to waterhole, searching for food and water. She was part of a family mob that included her mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, and brother and sisters. The hunt for food was one of the most enjoyable aspects of that lifestyle for her, and she recalls with relish the variety of food sources the desert offered — goanna, snake, lizard, bush turkey, kangaroo and emu. “Around 68 years old”, she lives in the settled community of Punmu in the Pilbara region of northern Western Australia — one of the most remote communities in Australia.
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