History Stories – Elaine Warnatjura Lane (Trustee)

We bin walkin round looking for kooka, we seen old Blackstone. We bin see em house with white man. He bin say, Where you from?” and we said we from Warburton we bin walking from rock hole and bush. He had a tap with water, he gave sugar and bread. We stayed for a week and we say better go back too many white fella. They drilling then we went back to Lindan Bore. Elaine would have been a teenager, and had already spent time at school in Warburton. They came for their holidays back to her home land, and saw the first white men starting to mine Blackstone