Warumungu

[2] An example of a Warumungu sentence might be " apurtu im deya o warraku taun kana ", meaning " Father's mother, is she there, in town, or not?

[5] In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Warumungu's lands once extended over some 21,300 square miles (55,000 km2), from the northernmost reach at Mount Grayling (Renner Springs) southwards to the headwaters of the Gosse River.

This was not a once and for all process, but continued with the Warumungu being shunted around, right up to the 1960s, to accommodate various pastoral and mining interests.

Conflict, largely over cattle, and resultant frontier violence occurred in many places in central Australia in the first 50 years of settlement, causing the displacement of Aboriginal people.

Tennant Creek town was established in 1934, at a site 7 mi (11 km) to the south of the Telegraph Station.

Warumungu and Alyawarre people also worked at mines in the Davenport Murchison Ranges, after wolfram was discovered at Hatcher's Creek in 1913.

[10] The life histories of most people include their experiences living on cattle stations, which eventually surrounded the original site of European settlement.

Vast tracts of Warumungu country had been granted as pastoral leases and were stocked from the 1880s onwards.

Running cattle on these lands was incompatible with Aboriginal hunting and gathering practices and people were forced to settle on stations or the reserve.

It didn't accept that it was for the Commonwealth to determine the conditions on which Aboriginal people could acquire land in the Northern Territory, so its attitude was one of resistance.Wollunqua is the Warumungu people's version of the Rainbow Serpent, a creator being common to a number of Aboriginal creation stories.