AustLit

'He came all the way from Mingaru which is a place on Melville Island...'

'...our grandparents told us this story about Purrukuparli and his wife Pima. Their son's name was Jirnani. They lived in our country at Yiparli, which is on the east coast of Melville Island...'

'When I was a child, the rule was that all part coloured children were collected and sent to a compound or a mission station...'

'We used to go out and look for goanna and kangaroo and sugarbay and yam...That was for long time...'

'Long, Long ago, when animals and fishes ruled the earth, there lived on the western side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, thousands and thousands and thousands of Catfishes...'

'Two lads went out hunting and came upon a flock of flying foxes. They killed several and then made a fire...'

'Bickerton Island is in the Gulf of Carpentaria, seven minutes flying time from Groote Eylandt...'

A group of Aboriginals were camped beside a tidal river call Ajungmungja or more commonly known as Salt Creek...'

'Several ships had been wrecked on the east coast of Groote...'

'Back home in Maningrida my family and I fishing at my country...'

'The play opens with Violet crying. She is in the Aboriginal reserve where she lives. She is very upset. Two white people have come to take her away from her family...'

'My upbringing was more tribal, especially compared to the same age group of people around them who had more contact with white people...'

'Claude is the last fully initiated Adnyamathanha man and was born at Angipena in the Flinders Ranges on 26th December, 1908...'

'Claude Demell tells of his father who used to track at Beltana for a while then he gave the tracking away and went on to the station work...'

'When I was a youngster, you'd just go straight out to a station...'

'I'm really glad that our language is starting to come back because what I'm on about, the truth is...'