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Wash me away

It’s about time for her to leave the mission and go to Adelaide, she deeply remembers not forgetting the faith in god and remembering her kokatha identity deep in her heart.

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Growing changes

Everyone is slowing going away, first Papa then Old Rod, and now Mr Dempsey is too old to do his physical jobs. Grace’s body feature is changing slowly, she’s becoming like a woman and she is finally heading to Adelaide to go to high school.

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Goojarb: Serves yourself right

1 year later, Grace and Eva are on the farm more often, and Mrs Williams are not that grumpy to the girls, Mrs Williams is even keen to teach them how to knit and they’ve learnt a lot of things that they can’t learn on the mission. Old Rod went to Adelaide to see his lawyer and so Dave and Aunt Mim is taking care of them. On the next day, Old Rod passed away in Adelaide at his sister’s place because of heart attack, ada and the girls are very sad.

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Goin’ back to country, in heaven

Papa neddy passed away, everyone in the mob is very sad, it was too late when sisters came, and Papa got a funeral.

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Dolly gets a haircut

Uncle Ted (Old Rod’s brother) is shearing Dolly. Aunt Min is having her wedding at the mission church, she is married to Old Rod’s son, and the sisters went to stay in Old Rod’s house.

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The sins of the father

Old Rod gave the sisters a baby sheep and asked them to take good care of it. But the other kids on the mob wanted to play with dolly (the lamb’s name) and the lamb got scared so grace got angry and got into a fight, because there were so many kids so grace got hit and can’t even get up (so she stated swearing and said every swear word she knows). She got into a fight with ada because of her swearing and she accidently told ada about her knowing who her real father was (Old Rod) and said that ada is a big liar. Old Rod come to visit and after he came out of ada’s room he spoke with Grace and Eva, Grace thought Old Rod is going to say stuff about her swearing, but he cried instead and sins about the things he did and promised to give the sisters and their mother (Ada) a better life.

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They knew that Old Rod is their father and that night they get to sleep inside with clean sheets instead of in the dirty shed.

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Riddle solved

When Old rod took Grace and her big sister (Eva) to the farm to stay for a night during that time he had a car crush and Old Rod is very scared of the girls getting hurt, then after they arrived to the farm they accidently heard the conversation between Old Rod and his wife Mrs. Williams, he said : ‘ I could of lost my 2 daughters.”, grace and Eva were shocked but they quickly accepted the fact that Old Rod is their father and is happy.

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Some things stay the same, some things change

After she’s back home (on the mission) her grade became better because of the education she received during when she was at the children’s hospital back in Adelaide and she eventually got more people who is jealous of her. On that day the superintendent bring more people ( a mob of people who speaks an different aboriginal language) and she met a friend from that mob called ‘Ooji’ but that also means Grace got more teased and rude words said to her because she have a fairer skin colour.

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Healin’jinna minga

After investigation Grace got a serious leg infection and got sent by air to Adelaide for further treatment. During this period, she also got the measles, Old Rod and some of her aunties also came to visit her. Then after some months she successfully went back home to the mission.

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Walbiya gu minya: white man’s sickness

The chapter started with a fight between a drunk woman and ada, ada got hurt and took the girls to stay on Old Rod’s farm for one night. After Old Rod dropped them back to the mission the next morning Grace realized she injured her leg and that’s probably because of the walk she took to Old Rod’s farm last night.

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Mumoo jumpin’’round

Grace noticed how Old rod acts differently when he’s near white people and indigenous people. Even though in the mob sometimes there’s conflicts between them based on their different skin colours but most of the time they’re all alright.

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Goin’away

Grace’s best friend Dee Dee Doe left with her proper mum – Mumma Rose, grace is upset that her best friend left her. Grace and the mob went to Denial bay by truck as their holiday, and also accepted the fact that she doesn’t have but don’t need a father.

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Ngoonji bula: God, Jesus and Father Christmas

School ends and it’s the holidays, grace and the mob went to church and got presents. Grace know Father Christmas is not real and she ended up having an big argument/fight with Ada because she thinks Ada is an liar.

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Lookin' for answers

Molly told her (grace) that her dad is a white person but grace is still concerned and not sure so she wanted to ask Old Rod if he know, (but ended up not asking).

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secret-pretty-things
grace wanted to find out who her father was, she secretly asks her close friend dee-dee-doe, but dee dee don’t know either. They share secrets between them, secret pretty things.

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Where I Belong
grace begins to question the root of her identity, Old rod's mom ( older generation)'s attitude towards grace and their mob is not friendly either.

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If welfare get us, we finished
grace and the children are hiding from the welfare because the welfare is trying to take away the children

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Small Girl Speaking
The narrator, known as Grace Dawn (her name given by a Christian man), is under the control of the Superintendent – white superiority. Grace has faith in Christianity and grace is close with dee-dee-doe.