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Theme
Kinship Systems
How Palm Island Community Company storytellers name kinship systems in their own words. Every storyteller below carries the theme; every quote is verbatim and only surfaces from analyses that passed an anti-fabrication grader.
Voices carrying this theme
In their own words
“We grew up to listen and taught how to be respected”
Discussing core values instilled through upbringing
“I pay my respect to the Durr people here in the country for having us here”
Acknowledging traditional owners and showing cultural protocol
“Our mother was one of the stolen generation”
Ethel identifying her mother's experience as a victim of forced removal policies
“It was a hard struggle for our mother, raising 17 of us”
Describing the challenges faced by her mother in raising a large family under difficult circumstances
“She said, I should have listened to my mother at that time.”
Marjorie recalls her mother's regret about not learning her language when she had the chance
“This is his country that I'm walking on.”
Marjorie speaks of walking on her grandfather Alf Palmer's country
“We just lost, uh, last of our elders about a month ago... now we got no elders.”
Reflecting on the recent passing of elders and the leadership gap created in the community
“I didn't know I was an Aboriginal person. I didn't know I had a language name, a tribal name, a skin name.”
Describing the discovery of his cultural identity through conversations with elders and family
“When I say WA, I am also WA because Palm is Erman”
Winnie explains the blend of identities that define her community, highlighting how Palm Island connects to Western Australian heritage
“That's why I am glad I came this way here to you”
Winnie shares emotionally about the significance of place and heritage in her life
“Mum's never known her history”
Describing how her mother, a member of the Stolen Generation, never knew her roots and passed away at 52
“She didn't want us to be lonely like she did”
Explaining her mother's motivation for having ten children
“I came back to Palm a few years ago due to my grandmother being a bit crook and stayed”
explaining his return to Palm Island to care for his grandmother
“We've come a long way since then”
reflecting on PICC's transformation since 2011-2012
Quote selection: every quote shown above is from an analysis that passed an anti-fabrication grader. Analyses with critical issues are not surfaced here.