2011 - Theses - Flinders University

Just then, Rita called out and held up several small flat tobacco tin lids. ‘My grandmotherand grandfather used to smoke, not cigarettes but plug tobacco and put it in a pipe. I used tosay, ‘Hey, how come both of you smoking? Grandmother, woman don’t smoke!’ ‘Yeswoman do smoke!’ she’d say.’ Rita grinned like a conspirator, and the four of us womenlaughed to think of her old grandmother, Rachel Johnson, who ‘growed her up’ inNepabunna, Bourke, and Tibooburra, while her parents worked on stations. 44Yuras were moving, camping, working, traveling all through this country, then, and callingMinerawuta, ‘home’. Some said there were four thousand of them. 45 The Heritage Unitestimated, ‘In the course of a decade at least one hundred Adnyamathanha lived here andaccommodated visiting relatives.’ 46 But in Betty Ross’s book, the family names she hadsketched beside each pile of rubble that marks a hut on her map, included ancestors of justabout every Adnyamathanha person I knew.29