In the 1980’s Ngalia elders became concerned that the younger generation were losing their cultural knowledge, they were also concerned that aspects of their culture were being destroyed by mining and development activities. Ngalia elders formed an organisation called the Ngalia Heritage Research Council Aboriginal Corporation (NHRC) in 1990 to work on recording and preserving Ngalia oral history, heritage and culture. The Ngalia Heritage Research Council has as part of its constitution the core objectives of “in essence to preserve wherever possible significant Aboriginal sites…to rejuvenate, restore, study and protect all good aspects of traditional Aboriginal culture and language…” (NHRC constitution, p.3). There are other objects relating to health, education, economic development and social development, however it has been the importance of traditional Aboriginal culture, sites and language that has been the core focus of NHRC research. The activities of the NHRC are diverse, the methodology employed to pursue its objects ranged from direct confrontation with developers who sought to destroy places of cultural heritage value in the landscape, to recording oral histories, songs and family histories through to the compilation of a Ngalia language dictionary. The Ngalia people are very fortunate that members of their community who were well versed in traditions, laws and customs were also literate and committed to recording Ngalia cultural knowledge in the form of artworks, sound recordings, reports and books.