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Tjookootja |  |  |  | | | | | | | | | Biography
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Tjookootja was born around 1945 at Liturwarti in the Great Sandy Desert. As a
young child she left her home country and walked up the Canning Stock Route to
Bililuna. Many desert people were moving north towards the white settlements of
the Kimberley cattle station country.
Nora grew up at Bililuna. She lost
her granny, mother and brother at Balgo. Nora’s husband then brought her
to Christmas Creek. She left three children behind at Bililuna. Her sister grew
them up there. Then she had two children at Christmas Creek.
Nora says:
I was born at Liturwarti, I was little kid when we left home country. We walk
up a long way to Bililuna and Balgo. Grow up at Bililuna. Husband bring Nora here,
to Christmas Creek. Leave three kids at Bililuna, Sister bin grow them up. Have
two kids here, Joy and Mildred Benny, but lose granny, mother and brother at Balgo.
In the 1980 s Wangkatjungka Community was established on land excised
from Christmas Creek station. From 1994 to 1998 some senior desert people began
recording their stories through Karrayili adult education service. When the Karrayili
annex closed in 1998, a number of senior people had became adept at painting and
had begun exhibiting their work. Nora Tjookootja was one of those artists. Nora
paints the waterholes and various sources of bushtucker found throughout the country
of her birth.
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