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Kaytetye

Author: GRACE KOCH

Kaytetye Aboriginal tribe whose country stretches from near Central Mount Stuart in the south to the Devils Marbles in the north of the central Australian desert. They have been enshrined in history by the »Bartow Creek Massacre«, where, in 1874, three telegraph station staff were speared. In reality, the retribution wreaked upon the Kaytetye and neighbouring tribes far outweighed the original event, and Kaytetye people today remember stories told to them by their ancestors about that…

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