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'Topsy Napurrula Nelson was born at Ngapajinpi a sacred site south of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, and grew up with her extended family, wise in the ways of the land. Responsibilities for the maintenance of the mythology, songs, painting, dance and ceremonies which commemorate places and country is one Topsy had taken seriously.'

'In the mid forties, Topsy had spent time on the mission at Phillip Creek, north of Tennant Creek. In the fifties Topsy had worked as a house girl on the newly established settlement of Warrabri, south of Tennant Creek. During the 1970s she was rearing children of her late younger sister, and was involved in building a ritual world for the next generation and ensuring that the older generation was respected.' (Source: Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism, 2000:111; Speaking About Rape in Everyone's Business, Diane Bell and Topsy Napurrula Nelson, Women's Studies Int. Forum, 12(4)403-416, 1989) )

OTHER WORKS:

Bell, Diane and Nelson, Topsy Napurrula, 'Speaking About Rape is Everyone's Business', Women's Studies Int. Forum, 12(4)403-416, 1989.