They took us anyway. Home for the next nine years would be the New Norcia and Mogumber missions. On the mission you had plenty of food and warm blankets. You didn't have to struggle so hard, although you worked like a slave. There were times when you were very happy because we were all like brothers and sisters, but there was still that void of not having a family.
Nothing can compensate for that.
I knew children who cried themselves to sleep. She wants to ensure that her stories, and those of her people, the Noongar, from the southwest of Western Australia, are not lost. Displayed in a museumsetting, the paintings provide an emotive contrast to the anthropological exhibits of Aborigines on the same floor. However, artistic director Sean Doran rejects suggestions that this is the main reason he has included many indigenous works this year. PIAF's mission has always been to promote local work and forge links with local artists, he says.