Bai Bai Napangarti was born in the bush, probably in the mid 1930s, and is a Kukatja speaker. Her mother first saw white people when she was a little girl. Her family was camped near the Stansmore Range and saw three men on camels travelling north. Bai Bai recalls that they were friendly and gave her family tobacco. However, the next Europeans who came through were hunting Aboriginal people, especially women, and from that time the family were more cautious.

When Bai Bai's family first saw cattle, they did not know what they were. They fed one to the dogs - and when the dogs did not die they realised the meat was safe for people to eat. Later, as a young girl, Bai Bai accompanied her family on two trips to the station near Greg...