EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE

Born circa 1910 at Soakage Bore (Alhalkere) on the north west boundary of Utopia, Emily first met white people as a young girl aged about nine. The adopted daughter of Jacob Jones, an important law man in the Alyawarre community, she spent her younger days as a camel driver and stock hand on pastoral properties at a time when most girls worked as domestics. Married twice, Emily lived with her family at Alalgura and later with her husband at Woodgreen Station. Having failed to conceive, she left her husband and moved to Soakage bore, one of 14 small encampments spread over Utopia’s 1800 square kilometres.