PHOTO: Trangie Local Aboriginal Land Council’s Tony Lees holds remains, belonging to an Indigenous man, stolen in the 1880s. A reburial ceremony took place on a property in the Gin Gin area on 10 May. IMAGE: River McCrossen
Around 140 years after they were taken, an Indigenous ancestor’s remains have returned to their original burial grounds near Trangie.
Attendees at the burial ceremony described a mix of excitement and sadness on Saturday 10 May as the man’s skull, wrapped in an Aboriginal flag, was walked from the Wungunja Cultural Centre to a waiting 1971 VG Valiant.
A procession then drove about 20 kilometres northeast of the town to a property in Gin Gin, where a grave dug about a metre deep was waiting…