This is my third Hide and now I thought to use this hide to do something different to tell that story about short horn cows. Now all the short horn cows are finished up here, it's brahman now, which has tough hair and hard to carve.
When I was young and working on the station we were mustering and eating short horn cows. But we had to move away from community on country and come to town. Then Kartiya (white people) went around in the helicopter and bull buggie muster shooting all the short horn cows and scrub bull to get rid of them and then they brought in Brahman. It's all changed form the early cattle days. With the short horn cows, people used a horse to go out and muster. Now days they mostly use helicopter and before helicopters they used small Cessna planes.
I'm using the story with the cow hide to also talk about what happened to all the communities of Aboriginal people with all the changes that happened when they moved us off the stations. We were trying to build communities there but when the government bought in the wage referendum they moved us off and into town.