Clip description
Black-and-white photographs of the two Nanas when they were younger women, with babies in arms. The sequence of photographs with voice-over tells us of the first time they ever saw white people.
Curator’s notes
The fact that in living memory, Indigenous peoples still recall the first time they saw white people, gives a necessary comparative state of existence between the pre-colonial and colonial. The granddaughter’s view on her grandmothers is one where she speaks with pride of the older women and their cultural ability to survive in the desert. The strength of the older women is the true legacy being passed on to the younger women, who in learning about love, learn also the strength of their ancestry.