Alice Bilari Smith

Alice Bilari Smith was born at Rocklea Station in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in the 1920s to a Banyjima mother and a white teamster father, raised by her Aboriginal family, and narrowly escaped removal to Moore River Settlement.[1][2] She married Bulluru Jack Smith, lived most of her adult life in the bush raising a large family while retaining their language and customs, and settled in Roebourne in 1969 for her children's schooling.[1] She is the author of the autobiography 'Under a Bilari Tree I Born,' recounting her life on stations, in the bush, government reserves, and towns in the Pilbara.[3][4][5]