[1][3] She was a member of the Stolen Generations, who were part-white, part-Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families by the Australian government.
Her mother, Maude, was a Martu Aboriginal woman, and her father was Thomas Craig, a white Australian fence inspector.
Jigalong was established in the far north west of Australia in 1907, as the location for a maintenance and rations store for workmen constructing the rabbit-proof fence.
[3] The next day, the three girls escaped on foot, and walked to find the rabbit-proof fence and then follow it north back to Jigalong.
Craig married Toby Kelly, an Aboriginal stockman, and the couple worked on Balfour Downs station.