Jigalong was a long way from anywhere it was just used as small depot for white men who cleared holes in the rabbit-proof fence. And in the 1930s the Mardu people decided it was a good place to stay. Molly had a young Mardu mother and a white Englishman as father so her skin color was not as dark as the others so the other children was evil and called her things. But one day Molly’ s mother told Molly that to other muda-mudas was coming to Jigalong so she got happy. The white men called these children for half-castes and they decided be servants. that they should go to school so the where taken from their family and sent something called the Moore River Native Settlement where could learn to
Leaving Jigalng (2):
Yellagonga a leader of an Aboriginal camp tells how Dayub who is another leader was invited to visit the European settlers. Captain Fremantle needed the approval of the Aborigines to give their country an English name. Dayub and the other Aboriginal men had language issues and could not understand what Fremantle was saying. Even though the Aborigines did not give actual consent, the Captain named their land Western Australia. After Yellagonga finished his story he observes the first settlers near the river. Captain Fremantle took possession of one million square miles of territorial land and named it Swan River Colony. The settlers were not satisfied with the land and wilderness at first. We should never have come says one of the settlers.
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