Arrernte

Having been forced off their land, and with nowhere to find food and water, the Arrernte gathered in camps around the nascent town.

Australia's dark heart Will Storr 2010

Of course, the Arrernte people already lived here, and had done so for more than 50,000 years.

Australia's dark heart Will Storr 2010

The first white settlers called Ninox boobook the cuckoo owl; to the Arrernte, it was the arkularkua.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The ghost gum is a dancing woman in the Arrernte songs that tell the dreaming stories of the creation of this land.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

It was the boobook owl, mopoke, a totem being to the Arrernte Aborigines of these arid lands along the Macdonnell Ranges to the west of Alice Springs.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

He ought to know: he grew up as a boy with the western Arrernte people in the Aboriginal community of Hermannsburg, seventy-five miles from Alice Springs, several days by camel in those days.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

It was the boobook owl, mopoke, a totem being to the Arrernte Aborigines of these arid lands along the Macdonnell Ranges to the west of Alice Springs.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Latz is an ethno-botanist and has lived all his life in the Arrernte country of central Australia.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The first white settlers called Ninox boobook the cuckoo owl; to the Arrernte, it was the arkularkua.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Bushfires and Bushtucker, the title of his definitive book surveying the use of plants and fire by the Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, Arrernte, Pintupi and other central Australian Aboriginal peoples, describes his passions well enough.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009