Written in his personal local tongue in addition to in English, this can be the autobiography of Monty Hale, a senior Ngulipartu guy from the Pilbara quarter of Western Australia. A awesome account of an indigenous lifestyles, this narrative chronicles Hale’s migration from the wilderness to the station kingdom of the jap Pilbara, his early life becoming up on Mt. Edgar Station, Australia’s engagement in international warfare II, and the well-known Pilbara station-worker’s strike of 1946. Deeply own and funny, Hale additionally describes his courting with a girl named Nalma; a union that was once no longer permitted via their community.
We’d inform him, ‘We’ve killed a kangaroo over there within the creek’, and he’d let us know to return and get it. We’d exit to the swimming gap; rather than going out for kangaroos we’d swim within the creek. 15 We got here from desolate tract lf changes.indd 15 27/02/12 2:44 PM Kurlumarniny: We come from the desolate tract Nganarna partanykarrangu ngurnarringi jalakarti witi-witikarrikinyiyirni kajakurra, wangkawangkajarrinyikinyiyirni parrjanikinyiyirnalu tuwakipaku. Yijalu yirrinikinyiyirni warrkamu wanikinyi.
Purta wiyurrkarramarnalu ngajumartaji wangkayiji. Katurli ngajungu purta ngajinakaji. Nyarrupirnirni ngaju, manarna jilaman nyarrungkarralu purlpinyin nyungu kajajarrinyi mirtijarrinyi. forty two We got here from wilderness lf changes.indd forty two 27/02/12 2:44 PM Chapter three • Mining instances, 1950–55 I kill my first emu as soon as my kin took me out from Kurlira on an in a single day looking journey to Jalkujalkunya at the Talga Talga River. We made camp. I went out jogging within the night and that i chanced on units of emu tracks.
Kakarrakurnu ngurra paljurnirna. Palaja kanyayinganinyi jurtujirniyinganaku pala parrarl: wararrkarrikinyi marrngukapan. Kajangulupa yirrinaku. Yanarna wangka wararrkarrinyirni palamartaji; palinyngarrany ngaparr ngajungu pala parrarl. Kulpanyiyirni, ruutu yarnimanikinyi palakarti ngurrangulu. Yarnimarnayi jipi. Truck-nga drum-ngu winyajirniyirni ngapa, wiyimarnayirni ngapa wirrirniyirnijaninyi palanga. Pijungulu jinangu yanikinyiyirni warrkamkarti. Karlikinyiyirnalu side-jirri choose and.
wilderness lf changes.indd ninety three 27/02/12 2:44 PM Kurlumarniny: We come from the desolate tract Eudamullah-ja milpanya maaja, yinjipirni jinapuka kunymarnarningu jalarnja mayampapirni yana town-karti. Town-ja load wirrirnijaninyi semitrailer-nga, kulpanya maaja mayijartiny. Wirrurru yirrirniyirni mirtijarrinyi ngalpajirni mangkurtungu. Pala yirrirniyirni truck mangkurtungu ngalpajirni axle wurnmanya. Mirtalu wurrarnanganaku, ‘wararrkarrayi ngalparra mayampakata, wararrkarralunyurru partijirri kaniny.’.
Mangarrjarrajartiny yanikinyi Yurtingunyaja Sixty-One-kartipa Panaka-Panakakarti. Palaja maparnkarra milpanya Yurtingunyakarti, mamaji Anne-mili. Bucknall-ju kanganyikinyi Sixty-One-kartipa Panaka-Panakakarti marrnguku wurrkujaku. Parrjanikinyijaninyi ngalypa, wurrkuja marrngu yinganyikinyijaninya drugs. Palangulu kulpanyikinyipulu Yurtingunyakarti palajun. Kujarra partunu waninyi warrkam Yurtingunyanga. Karntimartajapa Yurtingunyaja yanayirni partanykarrangu kanyayirnijaninyi, kakarra.
