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'The accounts above by Dandy Danbayarri, Violet Wadrill, Maurie Ryan and Biddy Wavehill of 'half-caste' or pilyingpilying children taken away from Wave Hill Station are a small number of many cases of government welfare officials separating Gurindji children from their families. Maurie Ryan also gives the names Tom and George Kelly, Nelly Kelly-Kitching, Alec Kruger, Clyde Bray (now Mohammed McGee), Maddie Frith, Bess Croft, Mickey Hill, David McGorm, Jack Cusack, Freddy Savillis and Joe Egan. These children form a part of what is now known as the Stolen Generations. There were Gurindji children with non-Indigenous fathers right from the time of the establishment of Wave Hill Station in the 1880s. For instance, Molly Dodd Tupngarri's father, who died at Jatpala, was a Chinese gardener at the original Wave Hill Station.' (Introduction)
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- Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill, Victoria River area, Central Northern Territory, Northern Territory,