Cirrus@Austlit

'Okay, I'm going tell you a story from the old days. Alright, one day our boss, my father's boss, came to speak to him. 'You mob gotta go work now: all of the old girls, old men, everybody not the very old — just the fit and healthy ones. You gotta cut down trees. There's a flying machine that's going to come and land here, just over there, west from here. We've gotta clear out all the grass and trees — everything. It's going to fly over here and land right here.' The boss man was explaining '  (Introduction)

'I was a bit older when we first learnt of Welfare, the boss of Aboriginal people. They were the ones who took away the pilyingpilying and sent them to Darwin: my sister, Ronnie's brothers (Jim Ryan and Ted Henry) — there were lots of them --Jarrangka was another. I know them all. Some pilyingpilying are still living in Darwin. I know the ones who got taken from their mothers. The police took them. The children would be hiding behind their mothers when they came.'  (Introduction)

'When I was a child, a flood came and inundated everything. There were kartiya stranded up high in different places. All kinds of things were picked up and swept away by the floodwaters: plates, saucepans, camp ovens — all that kind of thing was taken by the flood. The station people had put food, like bread and sugar, in high places but anything else was swept away. The kartiya themselves stayed high up in the trees or on the roofs. They spent two nights like that.' (Introduction)

Over here to the east - I'm not talking about Jinparrak, but the original Wave Hill Station which was washed away by the flood. I was little then. I was small and with my mother all the time, like these little Nawurla girls here. I was that age. I was starting to understand about things. So over here to the east, where the old homestead was, that's what I'm going to talk about. There was a kartiya manager who was going to arrive. He was travelling up from Darwin by boat. He got to Timber Creek and took a motor car. He unloaded all his gear, swag and everything.' (Introduction)

'Jawiji ngurnangku yurrk yuwarru yijarni nyawa-ma, yijarni, kula Puwarraja, nyawa-ma yijarni, nyila nyamu-rna-nga yurrk yuwani nyila-ma, Puwarraja, nyawa-ma yijarni-nyiyang. 
 

'Jawiji (Granddaughter), I'm going to tell you a story. It's a true story this one, not a Dreamtime . Other stories I've told you are from the dreamtime, but this one's from modern times. ' (Introduction)

The story of Moses.

this is a dreamtime story.

Cultural adaptation of the folktale, The lion and the mouse, retold from Dagaragu; with English preface.

'... Jesus died and came back to life again is a colouring book containing illustrations of the Easter story. The text accompanying the illustrations is in Gurindji language and based on New Testament Gospel narratives' (Source: Preface).

Folktale The three billy-goats Gruff re-told in Gurindji.

'Nuwawu yurrk (Noah's story) is a summary of the story of Noah and the flood from Genesis, chapters 6-9' (Source: Page 25).