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Peggy Patrick Peggy Patrick i(A126453 works by) (birth name: Parratjil) (a.k.a. Nangari (Skin name))
Born: Established: 1928 Kununurra, Ord River, Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Kija ; Aboriginal Miriwoong
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1 Bush Tucker : Peggy Patrick Peggy Patrick , 1999 single work non-fiction
— Appears in: Ngalangangpum Jarrakpu Purrurn : Mother and Child 1999; (p. 37)
1 Bush Tucker : Shirley Pudie, Madigan Thomas, Peggy Patrick, Polly Widaldjil, Phyllis Thomas, Mary Thomas, Mona Ramsay Shirley Purdie , Phyllis Thomas , Polly Widaldjil , Peggy Patrick , Madigan Thomas , Mona Ramsay , Mary Thomas , 1999 single work non-fiction
— Appears in: Ngalangangpum Jarrakpu Purrurn : Mother and Child 1999; (p. 31)
1 Pregnancy, Birth and Child Rearing Practices : Peggy Patrick Peggy Patrick , 1999 single work prose Indigenous story
— Appears in: Ngalangangpum Jarrakpu Purrurn : Mother and Child 1999; (p. 17)
1 Pregnancy, Birth and Child Rearing Practices : Madigan Thomas, Peggy Patrick, Mona Ramsay, Shirley Purdie Shirley Purdie , Madigan Thomas , Peggy Patrick , Mona Ramsay , 1999 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Ngalangangpum Jarrakpu Purrurn : Mother and Child 1999; (p. 6-9)
1 Argyle Diamond Mine 1989 single work oral history
— Appears in: Impact Stories of the East Kimberley 1989; (p. 100-107)

'In 1979-80 the new community was confronted with the imminent development of the Argyle Diamond Mine. Sacred sites were damaged, and the people feared the effects of a large mining town nearby. Their attempts to use legislative rights were unsuccessful, the Sate Government of the day being firmly behind the mining company. This was a traumatic and divisive period'.

'Nowadays members of the community prefer to emphasise their limited gains in negotiating protection of some of the sacred sites and obtaining some recompense from the company. They recognise that they had no hope of stopping the mine, and are relieved that many of the potential effects have been contained by ADM's avoidance of a town and control of it's workers'.
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