After an almost decade long struggle, in 1975 then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam poured sand into the hands of Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari - and granted the Gurindji people a lease to a parcel of land at the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory.
Gurindji Elder George Edwards, was eight years old in 1966 when he walked off Wave Hill Station - along with around 200 Gurindji, Mudburra and Warlpiri workers and their families.
Led by Gurindji Elder and stockman Vincent Lingiari, they walked off the station in protest of unfair living and working conditions; and to demand the return of their ancestral Country.
59 years later, Mr Edwards is preparing to re-trace part of that same walk. He's gathered with people from all over Australia at the Gurindji Freedom Day Festival in Kalkarindji in the Northern Territory, where the historic walk-off took place.
That story by Angelica Waite and Dan Renny for SBS News.
