This is a men’s story. The circles in this painting represent wati tjuta (lots of men) sitting down at Paralpi (Victory Well). Wati tjuta are connected through family and cultural ties, through stories spoken amongst men only in accordance with cultural protocol and Tjukurpa Law. This network of connection is important to keep our community strong, to keep our spirits strong. We celebrate those connections beyond our own community along family lines spanning all the way across the continent, but for us it all starts from Paralpi.

Mimili is sited within the beautiful Everard Rangers on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the north-west of South Australia and 488 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs. Mimili is home to 300 Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people who have been living in the area for millennia in harmony with nature and acting as custodians of the land and the Tjukurpa (creation stories). Mimili was formerly known as Everard Park, which was a cattle station that was returned to Aboriginal ownership through the 1981 AP Lands Act. Mimili Community was incorporated as an Aboriginal Community in 1975.