Flowers to Make Daguragu Pretty: The Gurindji 1966-2016
Flowers to Make Daguragu Pretty: The Gurindji 1966-2016
$12.00
by Hannah Middleton
Paper back – 36 pages
Description
On August 22, 1966, a group of Aboriginal people walked off Wave Hill station where they were employed and the whole community walked to the local Welfare Settlement where they made camp on the banks of the Victoria River and began a strike for better wages and working conditions.
Later they moved on to Daguragu in the Northern Territory on the banks of Wattie Creek. It became clear that they wanted more than equal wages and working conditions but their land back and to take control of their lives.
Hannah Middleton lived and worked with the Gurindji at Daguragu from April 1970 to February 1971. Her booklet, Flowers to Make Daguragu Pretty: The Gurindji 1966-2016, published for the 50th anniversary of the walk-off, tells the story of the past 50 years and her small part in it.