Said to us: Come take our hand,
Sent us off to Mission land,
Taught us to read, to write and pray,
Then they took the children away,
The children away.
Snatched them from their mother's breast, Said it was for the best,
Took them away;
The Welfare and the policeman said: You've got to understand,
We'll give them what you can't give,
Teach them how to really live.
Teach them how to live, they said, Humiliated them instead.
(Roach, cited in Rintoul 1993:172)