English!

Place yourself in the shoes of a stolen child. Write a short letter from Nanna Nungala Fejo (in the mission) to her mother.


Dear Mum

I MISS YOU SO MUCH!! I unbelievably miss you, Amaroo, Tirranna, Balun, Leewana, Mayrah and everyone in our family! It hurts so much… I feel so empty and depressed without you, our family and the bush camp. I try to comfort Rungali peto but her tears don’t stop like the flowing river near our camp and I’m afraid I’m not much of a help as I feel the same way. I can hear my cousins cry out in despair, with broken hearts and empty souls. We all cry out to our ancestors’ for help and think of our families’ endlessly. The white people from the mission try their best but no one and no place will fill in for you, our tribe and our land. It has been many suns but none of us feel better, our love for our community does not die, but grows. Grows steadily, unnoticeably like a tree. You can hear the pain in our hearts searing, many attempts to find their family. Soon, very soon, I will go find you and our tribe. I hear whispers of doubt and uncertainty but I will find you, it is unbearable to be separated from our land; It feels like half of myself is missing. I look forward to the day we meet again, I will find you!

May the Ancestors bless us and help us to reunite
Nanna Nungala Fejo

2 Sentences what Mr. Kevin Rudd is apologizing for in the sorry speech:

Mr. Kevin Rudd is apologizing for the laws in the past which caused the breaking up of the families and communities and for the pain and suffering of the stolen generations. He is admitting the mistake the government made in the past and says that we should honour the indigenous people so that in the future, anything like this will ever happen again.

The Aboriginal tale ‘The bat and the butterfly’ has some relevance to my life. In the tale, there is a woman who works hard to look after each other. She is loved by the other members of her family and she feels that she belongs there. I also have a family that loves me and help each other out. I feel that I belong to my family and united, families/ communities are strong just like the woman’s family in the story. When she was abducted by a man, her family ran to her rescue. Although they did not succeed the first time, they did not give up. The woman was a part of their family, she always did her duties with a happy face and was responsible, therefore, her community members loved her and with their help, she escaped from the man. Also, the man kidnaps the woman and seals themselves in a cave. She escapes by turning into a butterfly and the man turn into a bat to chase her but out of the cave, her family drives the bat back in. Likewise, when I was younger, I have unkindly taken my brother’s Nintendo DS and hid in my room playing it. Soon after, my brother realised and with the help of his/my family, he successfully got his Nintendo DS back and drove me out of his room.