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The older women tell us the story of the smoking ritual, and how it is no longer practiced as much as it should be. Footage of women preparing the site for smoking, and of a baby being smoked.

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A woman shows us how to find termites by following the termite string to the termite bed in the spinifex grass. She shows the young children the termite eggs.

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Women at Five Mile show us plants using the Indigenous names like muluru, or warrumungu, called wintatu. They tell us that smoking is for mothers and small children.

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Zita is sitting on a stool feeding a poddy calf. In voice-over Aggie Abbott says most children who were taken away never returned to their country.

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Aggie Abbott recalls that when her family heard that her sister had a little white child, they travelled by camel from Ross River to see her.

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Aggie Abbott tells of how, when Zita returned to her mother after years of being absent, her mother said that her daughter was dead.

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Young women speak about how the old people used to show them bush tucker, dances, and how to make necklaces with ininti seeds.

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Witchety grubs being prepared for consumption. A group of young women are gathered at the waterhole and are preparing bush tucker to feed the young kids to make them strong.

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A car drives into Mt Liebig. The young woman talks about Mt Liebig and how it is ‘a good and strong place’. Shots of the residential area of Mt Liebig.