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Myra Ah Chee
Myra Ah Chee (born 13 April 1932), also known as Kanakiya Myra Ah Chee, is an Aboriginal Australian artist, interpreter and translator, storyteller, and author. In 2021 she published her autobiography, ''Nomad Girl: my life on the Gibber Plains and beyond''. Biography Myra Ah Chee is a Arrernte people, Southern Aranda (Pertame language, Pertame) and Luritja woman, born at Oodnadatta, South Australia, on 13 April 1932. She is the daughter of Molly Niningaya and Dick Taylor Junior (an Aboriginal man who worked with Afghan cameleers in Australia) and she was born at the Australian Inland Mission Hospital at Oodnadatta. She was named after Sister Myra, the nursing sister there, who delivered her. She is the granddaughter of Charlie Apma and the niece of Undelya (Minnie) Apma. She spent her early years living in a ''watuti'' (lean-to) on the fringes of the township with her family with her siblings. Starting at the age of seven, Ah Chee began attending the United Aborigines Missio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, and over time formed as many as 500 language-based groups. In the past, Aboriginal people lived over large sections of the continental shelf. They were isolated on many of the smaller offshore islands and Tasmania when the land was inundated at the start of the Holocene inter-glacial period, about 11,700 years ago. Despite this, Aboriginal people maintained extensive networks within the continent and certain groups maintained relationships with Torres Strait Islanders and the Makassar people of modern-day Indonesia. Over the millennia, Aboriginal people developed complex trade networks, inter-cultural relationships, law and religions, which make up some of the oldest, and possibly ''the'' oldest, continuous cultures in the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
