We are the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, the Senior Aboriginal Women of Coober Pedy, South Australia.

pinangku kulila
"listen to us"

We are Aboriginal Women-
Antikarinya-Yankunytjatjara, and Kokatha.

We know the country. We know the stories for the land. We worrying for the country and we’re worrying for our kids. We say “NO Radioactive dump in our ngura, in our country.”

All of us were living when the government used the country for the bomb. The Government thought what they knew what they were doing then. We know the poison from the radioactive dump will go down under the ground and leak into the water.

Group Statement, Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta
http://www.iratiwanti.org

We know the story of the land.
The Seven Sisters right across the land.
You can’t damage it.
White people have books.
We have the book of the land, like a computer, in our hearts.
We’ve got the Inma, the ceremony for the land.
The spirit is still crying.

1: Emu and Maralinga.
2: Radioactive dump.

We’re speaking from the heart, believe us.

Eileen Unkari Crombie, Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta
http://www.iratiwanti.org