The declaration of a new Indigenous Protected Area will help ensure their place in the Great Victoria Desert remains strong.
When it closed in the 1980s due to funding and water shortages, the WA Government bought a cattle station, called Coonana, believing former Cundeelee residents could move there and run it.Returning to country
He said everyone piled out of the car wondering who on earth it could have been before one of the elders found a footprint, instantly realising it could only have been left by one of their relatives who had never left the desert country. The seven brought back to camp were the Rictor family — the last known group of Aboriginal people to live a traditional nomadic life in Australia.After the initial contact the family came in from the desert, eventually settling in Tjuntjuntjara."It would have been a strange life for them because they wouldn't have had any contact with anybody else."Spinifex elder Lennard Walker was born at a rock hole near Kuru Ala, a sacred seven sisters site in northern Spinifex Country.
"[But] once this place started to get a bit established then it all became a bit too hard," Mr Baird says.
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