Story About Feeling

Bill Neidjie was born at Alawanydajawany along the East Alligator River sometime between 1911 and 1913.
During the war Bill earned his tucker and tobacco by hunting turtles and providing firewood for Col. Bill Sanderson of the Australian Airforce. Along with other Aboriginal men, Bill would chop mangrove wood and float it in a line to the jetty and load it onto a trolley. They would push it over a kilometre to the three houses that needed the wood. Each household would pay Bill and his friends a bag of flour for their toils.
He devoted much of his time trying to ensure that his knowledge and love of the country will not be lost but can be shared by us all.


"Listen carefully this you can hear me.
I m telling you because earth just like mother and father or brother of you.
That tree same thing.
Your body, my body I suppose,
I m same as you..anyone.
Tree working when you sleeping and dreaming."