- Daughter of Molly Craig.
- She was taken when she was about three or four years of age and was 25 when she was reunited with her mother. Her traditional name is Nugi and her kinship name is Garimara. Her mother called her that as soon as she went home.
- In 1990 she entered the Indigenous writing spotlight when she won the David Unaipon Award for her work Caprice - A Stockman's Daughter.
- She was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 2006 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to to the arts in the area of Indigenous literature, particularly through the genre of life-storytelling to raise awareness of Indigenous history, culture and social conditions.
- Armadale, Western Australia (January 2009)
- At 12, she was put in a mission. At 16, she took advantage of a program to become a nurse's aide, rather than a servant in a white household. She later studied journalism. As a young girl, she took the name Doris, from the woman who hired her mother as a domestic.
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