Frances Peters-Little (1958–2024)

Frances was a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Yuwaalaraay nations through her mother, Marjorie Rose Peters, and of the Yorta Yorta and Yuin nations through her father, famous singer Jimmy Little.Both parents had been born on a mission, Jimmy on Cumeroogunga Mission, near the Murray River, in 1937 and Marjorie on Gingie Mission, near Walgett, in 1936, and both had moved as teenagers to Sydney, where Jimmy became a singer and Marj a domestic worker.They met at an Aboriginal football fund-raising dance