PINTUPI REFERS TO AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES WHO ARE IN THE WESTERN DESERT GROUP AND WHOSE HOMELAND IS IN THE AREA WEST OF LAKE MC DONALD. THEY WERE REMOVED INTO COMMUNITY IN THE 1940'S TO 1980'S. THERE WAS A LAST PINTUPI TO LEAVE THEIR LIFESTYLE IN THE DESERT IN 1984. THEY WERE CALLED THE LAST TRIBE.
DURING RECENT TIMES GROUPS OF PINTUPI HAVE MOVED BACK TO THEIR TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLE IN THE DESERT. THEY SET UP SEVERAL COMMUNITIES.
THEY ORIGINALLY LIVED IN A VERY REMOTE PART OF AUSTRALIA. THEY WERE AMONG THE LAST ABORIGINESTO LEAVE THEIR TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLE. THIS WAS BECAUSE OF THE BLUE STREAK MISSILE TESTS. THEY WOULD LAND IN THEIR HOMELAND SO THEY MOVED THEM ALONG. THE PINTUPI WOUND UP LIVING IN A VARIETY OF COMMUNITIES.
BY 1960 THEIR GOVERNMENT FORCED THEM OFF OF THEIR TRADITIONAL LIVING SETTLEMENTS. THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE NOT READY TO LIVE IN WHITE SOCIETY AND THEIR CHILDREN WERE FORCED TO BE DISPERSED INTO A GOVERNMENT OR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS OR FOSTER HOMES AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS. AT ONE OF THE SETTLEMENTS PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF HEPATITUS, MENINGITUS, OR OTHER CAUSES IN THE 60'S.
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