Born c. 1956 in YuendumuLanguage group: WarlpiriCountry: Lungkatajarra Ida Nungala Granites, who belongs to the Walpiri Group (north west of Yuendumu), was born and raised on the edge of Tana mu Desert at Yuendumu Aboriginal Community, 320 km north of Alice Springs where she has been employed as a health worker for many years. Ida has been taught tracking by her mother as well as the traditional subsistence hunting knowledge since she was a little girl. Ida, who speaks fluently Walpiri and is quite conversant in English, has spent most of her life in a traditional marriage as a Co-wife .She is the daughter in law of Judy Nambajimba Granites, for whom she now looks after. Ida, who has raised several children and is a multiple grandmother living in an extended family, is still active in subsistence hunting in the land around Alice Springs.