In the East Kimberley, the arrival of cattle stations brought significant change.

Access to country shifted. Water sources were altered. Movement across the land was no longer the same.

What followed, over time, was a period of conflict — not defined by a single event, but by repeated incidents across the region.

Much of it was never formally recorded.

What remains has been carried forward through memory, place, and fragments of history.

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