Yeah.

I remember sitting with a woman one day, and she, she'd been living in Sydney.

Her mom was taken away and was w- at Cootamundra Girls Home.

Um, and she, um, her mom, everybody got to know her own mother, uh, who was, who was from Menindee.

Uh, and I was in looking one day with a, a woman who'd, with a...

And she was only i- in her early 20s.

Uh, looking at photographs, uh, um, and going through what we call the Tindale genealogies, uh, who was an anthropologist who did lots of studies of communities in New South Wales in the late 1930s.

[laughs]

Sure

... uh, there's, there are collections where, you know, First Nations, uh, community from around Australia have said to us, "Look, we're glad you've got it.

Thank God it was collected, but really, it's, um, it's one of those things that we don't necessarily want to be publicly available to every single person that comes in."

Mm-hmm

... um, which is refreshing.

And it, we know it's gonna change.

Our, w- how we, how, how we're talking about what we're talking about is go- the people are gonna, um, think that we're a little bit mad and crazy, and why-