2011 - Theses - Flinders University

White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume One Creative Writing Component: Excerpted Chapters from Volume Three Appendix One‘He’s one of yours, alright. Udnyu. Maybe you his sister, mother. You got to look out forthat one.’ No one else is speaking now in this tight conference of women. Away at the fire,both Freds – McKenzie and Johnson – lift their heads to watch.‘Alright.’ Becky drops her gaze, and the group begins to move again. She stands, chewingon her lip. They’d wanted a missionary too, she thinks, with a mixture of resentment andpanic. Now she had to make sure he didn’t fail.Leigh Creek, Flinders Ranges, 2005Granny Gertie lay in a hospital bed, and the skin of her hand was soft where I stroked it.There were photographs of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren stuck to thegreen lino walls. She had been here for some time, but you could not think she was ill. It wasonly her body growing frail; not her mind, and not her will.Granny Gertie Johnson in Leigh Creek Hospital.Thinking back on her teenage years at Minerawuta, she suddenly exclaims:Photograph courtesy of Tracy Spencer94