Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri


Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri is a Pitjantjatjara man born in the 1920s at Pirupa Akla, country located near the Olgas and to the west of Ayers Rock. By the time he was a young man, most of Whiskey's family had passed away. Many of his people had begun moving towards Haasts Bluff mission, about 250 Kms to the north east. Whiskey joined a group of people who were about to make that journey. No one had yet seen white people, and when they arrived at the mission, the desert people were completely naked.

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