Warlimpirrnga tjapaltjarri biography of michael jackson

Warlimpirrnga was the eldest amongst a small group of Pintupi tribes’ people who walked into the newly established community of Kiwirrkura in 1984, having maintained an isolated and traditional existence at the insistence of their elders, in country west of Lake Mackay in the Great Sandy Desert.

With the death of these crucial leaders, the nine, who were hailed in the media as a ‘lost tribe’ and had never encountered white people at close proximity before, sought out relatives who had already ‘come in.’ This was often the manner in which the more far-flung desert nomads slowly turned to the settled lifestyle, impelled also by drought and the encroaching European control of their traditional lands.

When another brother Pierti, who had traveled with them, returned to the desert almost immediately, they were taken under the watchful guidance of Dr. George Tjapaltjarri, a ‘medicine man’ of high regard who could continue their instruction through the ‘law