All Aboriginal people came from traditional lands. Some come to where they are now through stations - that's girls and boys, they were put in training camps to be trained for housemaids and then stockmen which is the stolen generation of course. They came through stations, reserves, missions and the institutions. So the pathways of all Aboriginal people nowadays, if they back track, every one of us that are Aboriginal, came through one of those tracks.

My name is Edmund Kenneth O'Loughlin. I was born at Point Pearce, 1938. I belong to the Narrunga and Kaurna people. Educational opportunities to us were limited, we weren't encouraged to go on because the policies were that - educate them to a certain level that is primarily reading and writing skills, beyond that secondary education was not even considered. By the late '50s opportunities improved, kids were encouraged then to go into Adelaide to do their secondary education - boys going to the tech colleges and girls going to girls' colleges. So this provided the basic education for girls and boys to go into other areas other than labouring.

My name is David Dudley. I'm from Port Lincoln but my family, my mother and father originated from Koonibba Mission. My tribe are the Mirning and the Kokatha. When the white man first came with their policies that they've set up - they've created two worlds which Aboriginal people had to live in and survive by - that's the Aboriginal world and the white man world. And what we've done in them two worlds is that most Aboriginal people have forgotten about their own world and have to adapt to the white world.

Gary Taylor, I come from Kilenbaren in Western Australia and my people are the Nyoongar people. I was bought up in a place called Juring, most of my people lived in the one area but one thing I do remember about the area in which I lived in is that missionaries were a big part of that reserve area where I lived. Missionaries played a couple of parts that I remember. Missionaries played a part as protectors because I know that they would come and they would speak to the people and at the same time they would actually have a relationship with the Nyoongar people. So that in by saying that, they educated the Nyoongar people in many, many ways. They taught them English and Maths and they were schools at the same time. They played a very important role, but we must remember that with missionaries they also learnt the Nyoongar language at the same time. And some of these missionaries later on became speakers of language and these people then became more or less like the carriers of the Nyoongar language where the Nyoongar people weren't really allowed to speak their own language - they were told to use Australian standard English language rather then the Nyoongar language.

Because we had the Aboriginal mother, we had a white father. We knew our place in this society, we didn't cross those boundaries. If you crossed those boundaries, you knew the consequences. Welfare officers were at our house on quite a regular basis.