The Pintupi Tribe

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In 1984 there were Aboriginal people who went around trying to find a place to stay, although within the group they had many little tribes that branched out, the most common one was the Pintupi tribe.The tribe later discovered the Gibson desert, and decided it was an excessive place for them to stay and make a living. When they stayed there they have to have food to eat, shelter for living, and water to survive. To make food they had to have fires to cook whatever they were consuming, although after all the fires and burning they did the people left something called a burn scar that has left massive marks on the desert and is causing trouble till this day. When the Pintupi arrived the desert had just went through a really rough drought in …show more content…

Now some people would think that it is hard to find water in a desert, not for the Pintupi tribe they have many ways, such as rock holes and soakage waters (Martumili). With the tribe it is located between the Gibson desert and Great Sandy deserts of Western Australia (BBC News). In that location they have discovered water holes that are only 25 miles apart (BBC News). A lot of people would think that is a huge essentiel being so close, which is true because if they were to build a place for them to stay and a drought went through or all the water was gone from that hole, they do not have to go around walking for miles trying to find another one. “Sometimes there was no water, so they would hunt for goanna” (Yukultji). Goanna is a certain type of monitor lizard, (source) but the komodo dragon is a certain type of lizard that its habitat is in the desert, so when it bleeds or bites it has vitals that moisturize a person or the grounds if dry. The lizards are very big in size and there life span is extremely long. Another difficult way living in a desert is finding shelter or even making a little “set up”, also remember the Pintupi tribe does not have much to make anything 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 living in the desert. The temperature was also another struggle for them, sleeping …show more content…

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