In October 1984, nine members of the Pintupi Tribe in Western Australia met some long lost relatives they hadn’t seen in years.

The significance of this event is that those nine people, two women with four boys and three girls, were the last aboriginal people in Australia to have contact with the outside world.

Up until 1984, they had lived their lives the same as their ancestors had for tens of thousands of years.
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