Up until the 1970s, a large proportion of Aboriginal people in Australia had some experience in institutions as part of government assimilation and protection policies. By focusing on three communities in South Australia, this book attempts to understand the consequences of this institutionalization for Aborigines and Australian society in general. Peggy Brock uses the word "ghetto" to evoke the nature of the missions in which many Aboriginal people settled for generations, as ghettos both oppress and nurture. The book shows that Aboriginal people often chose to live in the missions as part of creative strategies to ensure their own survival. This constructive and insightful study should become a central text in Aboriginal Studies and Australian history.
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"This book is an impressive contribution to the burgeoning field in Aboriginal history that tries to track the formation and impact of missions and reserves on the Aboriginal peoples of Australia." American Historical Review
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Up until the 1970s, a large proportion of Aboriginal people in Australia had some experience in institutions as part of government assimilation and protection policies. By focusing on three communities in South Australia, Peggy Brock looks at the consequences of this institutionalisation for Aborigines and Australian society in general.
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it is very hard for us to think of our dear old homes and white people living there and we've got to pass by like strangers . . . We battle ourselfs we dont want to be chased about from place to place . . . The minister dont want us on the Mission station & from there he hunt us away . . . And when we are in Ceduna, they get the Policeman to hunt us away from here. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ochre expeditions, camel depot, pastoral stations, ration depot, farm overseer, west coast people, mixed descent, baptismal instruction, mission era, mission authorities, police party, mission settlement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Australia, Port Lincoln, Mount Serle, Protector of Aborigines, Western Australia, Flinders Ranges, Ram Paddock Gate, Fowlers Bay, Jimmy Richards, Eyre Peninsula, Point Pearce, Port Augusta, Aborigines Protection Board, Leigh Creek, Rufus Wilton, Royal Commission, Gawler Ranges, Tom Adams, Aboriginal Heritage Branch, Aborigines Act, Joe Miller, Lutheran Church, Murray River, River Murray, University of Adelaide New!
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it is very hard for us to think of our dear old homes and white people living there and we've got to pass by like strangers . . . We battle ourselfs we dont want to be chased about from place to place . . . The minister dont want us on the Mission station & from there he hunt us away . . . And when we are in Ceduna, they get the Policeman to hunt us away from here. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ochre expeditions, camel depot, pastoral stations, ration depot, farm overseer, west coast people, mixed descent, baptismal instruction, mission era, mission authorities, police party, mission settlement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Australia, Port Lincoln, Mount Serle, Protector of Aborigines, Western Australia, Flinders Ranges, Ram Paddock Gate, Fowlers Bay, Jimmy Richards, Eyre Peninsula, Point Pearce, Port Augusta, Aborigines Protection Board, Leigh Creek, Rufus Wilton, Royal Commission, Gawler Ranges, Tom Adams, Aboriginal Heritage Branch, Aborigines Act, Joe Miller, Lutheran Church, Murray River, River Murray, University of Adelaide New!
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- The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America by James Axtell on page 19, and Back Matter
- Aboriginal Australians (Australian experience) by Richard Broome on page 20, and Back Matter
- Final report by South Australia on page 87, and page 167
- Islands of History by Marshall Sahlins on page 9
- Aboriginal Tasmanians by Lyndall Ryan in Back Matter
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