Malimunya minyma ngalturtjara maiku nguriningi (the woman from the dreamtime, Malilu was a poor thing, she was looking everywhere for food). She was crippled woman and her daughter's had ran off. After much hard work she found mai kutjupa kutjapa (different bush foods). She found kampurarpa (desert raisins) and wirriwiny. She travelled between the rockholes looking for food. This is a true story from the dreamtime.
Kani's family were living at Kanpi where she was born in Alice Springs hospital in 1981. Patricia went to school at Murputka the school for Kanpi and Nyapari and later completed her high schooling at Wiltja in Adelaide. Her mother 's place is kanpi and her father's county is Yalata. Patrica believes that cultural knowledge is very important to pass on to the younger generation just as she has learned from her mother Kay Baker and her grandfather Jimmy Baker.