the history of Papunya

  • Period: to

    Papunya

    the development of the community
  • history starts to change

    about 150 years ago suddenly begins to change when our ancestors started to see white people
  • land taken for cattle

    when white people came to Australia they did not recognise the different groups of Aboriginal owned all the continent
  • balance of nature broken

    the cattle drank the waterholes dry and ate the grass that the kangaroos and other bush animals ate it was harder to live in there
    country bush tucker animals and plants began