Now here are my family looking so proud in their photograph. It makes you feel good to see it … being happy in your own place in the world. That’s what it is. It’s a good thing.
“I always talk to my grandchildren, telling them interesting stories about hunting, about kangaroo. You think they haven’t paid attention when you’re talking about catching a goanna. But then, they go out on the dunes and actually do it themselves.
They’ll be bringing them home and I’ll look up: ‘Hey, my grandson Phillip’s coming back with a sand goanna, he got a goanna! They all go up the dune behind Mutitjulu and bring back goanna.
It always makes me feel great to see that… It gets shared with any family that might come around: ‘Here you go, this is for you.’
The family all gets together to enjoy eating it.
Sometimes they go out and get grubs, turning the roly-poly prickle plants upside down. Then they bring back the witchetty grubs they find in them. I can see they’re clearly good at getting things.
Now here are my family looking so proud in their photograph. It makes you feel good to see it … being happy in your own place in the world. That’s what it is. It’s a good thing.
It makes me happy to see them looking so good like this in the photograph. Really proud, you know.”
