1966 Wave Hill walk-off
The Gurindji had lived in what is now the Victoria River area of the NT for tens of thousands of years, when in 1883 the colonial government granted almost 3000sq.km of their country to the pastoralist Nathaniel Buchanan. In 1884, 1000 cattle were moved onto the land and 10 years later there were 15,000 cattle and 8000 bullocks.
This pattern was repeated across
