Jennifer Nginana Mitchell

Tjukurpala wangkanyi panya Minyma Tjapanpatjara. Minyma Tjapan. Minyma paluṟu tjana ngurangka nyinangi, tjanampa ngurangka. Wiltja tjanampa wiṟunya, munuya pukuḻpa nyinapai wiltja nyarangka. Tjanampa waṟu nguṟurpa kampapai kaya waṟungka itingka kaputu-kaputu ngaripai. Wati kura paluṟu nguriṟa-nguriṟa ma-nyangu, munta nyangatjampal nyinanyi,nyangatja puyu pantinyi. Kaya palunya nyangu ngangkarku wati panya paluṟu nyanga ngalya-nyinara nyanganyi, Wati Nyirulu nyakupai tjananya. Wati-pakaṉu ngura nyara nganaku anu, nganaku anu, Kulyurukuya. Kulyurulaya ma-nyinakatingu parpakantjanu. Munuya Kulyurulanguṟu panya paluṟuṯu tjananya kura palyaṉu ngulutjingaṟa Kupulu wakura ngulutjinganingi kayanku pakaṟa walawinki ma-pitjangi wira mantji-mantjira wana tjaliṟa walawinki tarararingu. Kalanku kuwari kumpiṟa mulapa ara parariltaya panya parari panya kumpiṟa munu anu wiluṟara ka nganampa tjukurpa ngaṟanyi Kuṟu Aḻa, Kulyuru, Mimanyampinya.

We are going to tell a story of the Seven Women. The Seven Ladies. Seven of them stayed around their own home country. They had a nice set-up at their camp. They were always happy at their place. They had a fire going in the centre and they would camp around the fire area. The man who searched for them everywhere ended up finding them. The bad man. He smelt their smoke from the fire. And the sisters spotted him and said among themselves, ‘Oh look, that same man is over there sitting and eyeing us from a distance.’ The man’s name is Nyiru. When they would run and hide away from him, he would still track them down. After being in one place for a while, they left for a place called Kulyuru. They flew away and landed in Kulyuru and again he chased them up and scared them again. He would chase them up, swinging his hitting stick. They would gather up their belongings and run. They then left for a faraway place, still hiding from the man. They went a long way, far away towards the west. And our story lies only around Kuṟu Aḻa, Kulyuru and Mimanyampi.