children. They also mentored teenagers in the family home; unofficially, Roach estimated around 15 to 20 further children over the years. Hunter said that her proudest achievement was keeping her family together as a stable unit. Death and legacy Hunter died of a heart attack on 17 February 2010, aged 54. Her partner Archie Roach established Ruby's Foundation to help continue her legacy. The foundation is dedicated to creating opportunities for Aboriginal people through the promotion, celebration and support of Aboriginal arts and culture. the Ruby Hunter Foundation has a Facebook page, but no website or other presence. At the 2020 National Indigenous Music Awards, Hunter was inducted into its Hall of Fame. Wash My Soul in the River's Flow (2021), written and directed by Philippa Bateman and produced by Bateman, Kate Hodges and Archie Roach, is a feature-length documentary based on the 2004 concert Kura Tungar-Songs from the River, featuring Roach, Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and the Australian Art Orchestra, in which Hunter and Roach sing about the Murray River and Ngarrindjeri lands. The film also tells of the love story between Hunter and Roach, and is interspersed with vision of The Coorong. Hunter is featured wearing pelican feathers, with Roach explaining that she was a pelican in the Dreamtime and that her spirit has returned to being a pelican. The film had its world premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival in October 2021 and was an official selection for the Sydney Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival in December 2021. In 2021, a group of people in the Riverland region started a campaign to rename Goat Island to Ruby Hunter Island to honour her legacy. As Goat Island is part of the Murray River National Park, the Department for Environment and Water has the final say. In 2022, two side-by-side pillar-shaped monuments were erected on the shores of Lake Bonney at Barmera, in homage to Hunter and Roach. Glass mosaic artwork on the front side of each monument, designed by Hunter's sister-in-law, Rosslyn Richards, depict Hunter's Ngarrindjeri totem, the pelican () and Roach's totem, the eagle, respectively. Hunter continues to be known affectionately as Aunty Ruby. Publications "A Change is Gonna Come", poem (1995), published in the journal Republica Co-author (illustrator), with Roach, Took the Children Away (2010), a children's book created from the song; 30th anniversary edition shortlisted in 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards, Australian