Category: Tanami
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Warnayaka Art Centre at Lajamanu
We arrived at Lajamanu at 2am Friday morning from Alice Springs via Yuendumu, having driven for 6 hours at night through the Tanami Desert along the Tamani Road, then turning onto the track to Lajamanu after the gold mine at the Granites (operated by Newmont Mining) and at Tanami. I wondering how mining on Warlpiri land, with…
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The Tanami + the Frontier wars
After meeting up with friends in a very green Alice Springs we set out on the 15 hour drive along the Tamani Road in Warlpiri country to Lajamanu. The history of this landscape is that of the Frontier wars involving a series of conflicts over 140 years (1788 to 1934) that were fought between Indigenous Australians and mainly…
The Long Road to the North 