2011 - Theses - Flinders University

White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume One Creative Writing Component: Excerpted Chapters from Volume Three Appendix OnePhotograph reproduced in The Age, 17 th June, 1999This story is about the people who gave Nepabunna its name, and called it home.You entered Nepabunna with a gentle thud of your tyres greeting sudden bitumen, firmand black after the pale loose dirt road that has led you east into the Northern Flinders Rangesof South Australia. The ground was a thin skin of powdered ochres evaporating slowly intothe still air. In sudden places the dark shale had worn through to the surface, like a graze or amemory. The morning sun cast the blue shadow of Mount McKinley—Wayanha—standingsentinel to the east, watching for those who might wander into its folds and shadows.Nepabunna was a self managed Aboriginal Community in the Northern Flinders Ranges of4