Gloria Brennan was a Wongi speaker of Pindiini (Nyanganyatjara) descent; claiming Weebo as her doogurr (birthplace), she was a linguist and anthropologist deeply concerned with speech and story. Reflecting on the contemporary cultural use of the Nyungar phrase ‘murdidj yorgas’, which translates as ‘strong/ clever women’, feminist anthropologist Pat Baines cites Brennan as a shining example, noting that Tracey Moffatt's film Moodeitj Yorgas (Solid Women, 1988) was ‘a tribute to Wongi academic Gloria Brennan, who in her middle years had died of cancer’. In its celebration of Brennan's legacy as a community organiser, linguist and anthropologist, the film confirms that ‘the notion of strong and talented women is part of Nyungar cultural representations’. As Baines notes, Nyungar/noongar is a post-settlement nomenclature adopted by a collective of distinctive communities in the southwest of Western Australia,

Looking at the work done by Nyungar grandmothers on land claims, Baines is keen to establish both the traditional and contemporary continued usage of murdidj/moordeitj yorgas as referring to respect for women's law within Nyungar communities, a respect that settler writers had argued was absent.