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Exactly forty years ago, in late 1984, the international headlines were filled with the ’discovery’ of the last group of Australian First Nations people, the so-called Last of the Nomads. These nine Pintupi tribesmen had walked in from the bush west of Lake Owen that year and for the first time came into contact with western civilization. Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri was about 25 years old at that time and his brothers Thomas and Walala, were mere teenagers. Their intimate knowledge of the land, its flora, fauna and waterholes allowed them to survive, as their ancestors had for thousands of …