Combined with the nearby Daguragu, about 700 people reside in the area.

The two settlements are located almost 500 kilometres south-west of Katherine, which most locals call their closest “big town”.

Famously in 1966, the Indigenous station workers, led by Vincent Lingairi, staged a walk-off in protest against oppressive labour practices.

Much of the land, about  3000 square kilometres of Wave Hill was returned to the Gurindji people by UK-based station owners The Vestey Group and the Australian Government in 1975.

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According to the Victoria Daly council, Kalkarindji is abundant in natural beauty with unique landscapes and small weaving river systems.

Daguragu and Kalkarindji are about 8km apart.

On August 16, 1975 then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam poured soil into the hands of senior Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari to mark the return of much of the station to his people.

The Wave Hill walk-off had paved the way for the NT Land Rights Act which became law in 1975.

In the same year the Gurindji people bought the pastoral lease.

After the NT government threatened to resume the lease, the Gurindji lodged a land rights claim.

In 1986 they gained freehold title to the waterhole on Wattie Creek known as Dagaragu.

In May 2004, a memorial to Vincent Lingairi was unveiled as part of Reconciliation Place in Canberra. Australia songwriter Paul Kelly wrote the song "from little things, big things grow" about Vincent's struggles for his people.