ABSTRACT
The first interview 1 I published with an Aboriginal person separated as a child was made with Veronica Cameron in 1976. Veronica Cameron lived near me in Katherine, Northern Territory and we often discussed her time as an institutionalised child at the Catholic children’s home at Snake Bay, Melville Island. Veronica’s account of the institution, like other narratives of the time, was ambiguous-neither resentful nor forgiving, accepting institutionalisation without blame, neither hating nor loving the nuns.
