 He was born in the bush, at a rockhole called Piltati, which is close to what is now Nyapaṟi in north-west South Australia.His family were Pitjantjatjara, and they lived a traditional, nomadic life in the bushland around Piltati.When he was a teenager, Tiger's family settled at Ernabella, which at the time was a Presbyterian mission and a sheep station.