Old Ladies at Seven Mile
EN: We used to have big corroborees here different tribes mix up, Warlmanpa, Warlpiri, Warumungu all mix up.
EG: The whole creek bed here, all the way. That one has bush name. Wirnkarra, dreaming, that place. Story for that place, old ladies got it. They would have the ceremonies up on top, behind the creek come here for water. Different languages all here, from every side. They used to come from Brunette Downs and old pub they used to come here and have big ceremony, before papulanji they used to dig it, now they put up thing timber to keep out sand.
EN: We been young then, little ones grow up this one.
EG: Old people been grow up here.
EN: All the time, they been comin', the papulanji.
EG: That papulanji, Con Perry had machine and pipe here. They used to pump with hand first before, after when that old man moved in he was owning this place then he put in engine for pump. That was Con Perry. He had sons and daughters here. Then his son had accident.
EN: People been campin' everywhere, all around.
EG: Everyone mix up, Warlmanpa, Warlpiri was the first one from Lajamanu. They the first ones. They used to put two timbers there [up across the creek]. People would walk across then.
EN: Connie-mob they been young.
EG: They been little ones and Teresa and them other ones that passed away only two left Connie and Teresa that's all, and old people gone too. Others, that's a few from after when we moved to Phillip Creek, Warlpiri and Warumungu would come together from west, they put their peace signs there, old people. That's for [to tell others to] come, old people used to sit down and talk. And they had dance right there (pointing up out of the creek bed) where them buildings are now, inside the fence. People used to sit around there and have a big corroboree and share their thing now. Where them big trees are, that's where they buried that old man.
A conversation between E. Nelson Nappanangka and E. Graham Nakkamarra