Gibson Desert History

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In 1984 the Aboriginal people discovered the Gibson Desert as a home or place to stay for them. Throughout the years of them living there they did many things to help them survive in the desert. When the aboriginal people discovered the Gibson desert, it had just went through a really bad drought. he men usually go out and look for ways to feed their family such as hunting, and the women pick the berries (Ang Ashley). Some people would think that it is hard to find water in a desert, not for the Aboriginal people they have many ways, such as rock holes and soakage waters (Martumili). With the aboriginal people they have many different tribes, the most common is the Pintupi tribe (Ang Ashley). The Pintupi tribe is located between the Gibson desert …show more content…

Goanna is a certain type of species that when it bleeds or bites it has vitals that moisturize a person or the grounds if dry. When living in a desert it is hard to find shelter or even make a little “set up”, and they do not have much, so “after we ate we’d go to sleep. No blanket we would sleep on the ground.” (Yukultji) sleeping on the floor would be very uncomfortable, especially doing it for however many years they stayed. It also was a struggle for them having the temperatures of the desert rise, and then plummet as low as negatives at night. Gathering food for them to cook was not a struggle. The aboriginals did not hunt at night but they had various ways to catch there animals, one of the ideas was finding smell, claw marks, and droppings than once those were detected, they are able to take a stick, dip it in honey and then if the hair sticks to the honey the animal is near (Weston A. Price Foundation). When they try to capture the animals they use many different tactics such as smoking it out, or being able to drag it out of where it lived. Although it is a whole different story when they catch flying animals, because they take nets and hang

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