'That's that home stead and that's that rock now Garrganny (water lily) place. The homestead is where my parents were born and that old kar????ya (white person) raised them up...
"That's that home stead and that's that rock now Garrganny (water lily) place.
The homestead is where my parents were born and that old kar????ya (white person) raised them up cause dad didn't know his parents. His mum got bi????en there from snake and that old fella he grew them up with nanny goat milk and dad's family came and got him and took him to Bedford Downs and raised him there with his parents family.
All my family was there now for that country, all my ancestors. My great-great grandmother - grandfather side - mother side.
Greenvale is named Djrringy."
"Bow River is our land, our traditional country, it's where all my old people belong, I know that because of passing down stories from my mum.
I was born there in 1965. It was really like being in the bush all the time, we didn't know anything about white people really, we used to live on kangaroo meat, my ganggayi [matrilineal grand-father] used to go up the hill, he made a trap for kangaroo and he got one red one, big kangaroo and we eat meat from kangaroo and used to feed us on goat milk, and I used to be riding on a mule too.
I wasn't so big, I was only small, me and my brother used to go anywhere, riding goats, a nanny goat threw me over the fence. We drifting around, chasing all the turkeys, they like hen, like laying egg and we go poke them and they chase me and peck me all around.
My father was a good horse-breaker, my grand-father taught him too, once that old fella died from Greenvale. All mob he told the Lily family to bring them over to Bow River to live. My family was all stock people, working for, not bad, gardiya [white people], they was good people. Because these gardiya, they looked after my family because my family knew the country well and told them not to go places where there is ngarranggarni p[dreaming] - they sacred sites at the back, lot of people don't know that."
