Opal’s Stories

Abstract

Opal: I been liven’ at Beantree now, me an’ Polly.

I have added titles to these stories to aid in referencing them later in the book. Also, in four of these interviews there was another person, besides Opal and myself, present. In the stories titled Little kid an’ all and No tea Stephanie was with us. Stephanie was the granddaughter of one of Opal’s best friends and she often helped me with learning Alyawarra and sometimes sat in on interviews to help me when Opal wanted to speak in Alyawarra rather than Aboriginal English. In the stories Dotty can shoot and We walked up another local woman, Sue, was present for the same reasons.