Index
‘A Visit to Mapoon’ (1923)
6, 102, 103
Aboriginal
activism
59, 62, 130, 131, 132, 134, 139, 140–2, 146, 152
agency
15, 25, 26, 45, 51, 99, 179
resistance
5, 18, 24, 26, 38, 40, 44, 68, 72, 77, 78, 115, 128, 130, 139, 143–8, 171, 180
Aboriginal children
11, 16, 19–21, 25–7, 36–8, 39, 40–2, 59, 72, 160, 161, 173, 175, 178–80
and ‘protection’
50, 70, 93, 103, 105, 120
and schools
79–81, 123, 127, 128
conversion of
87, 170
employment of
88
missionary focus on
45–6, 62, 87, 92, 94, 96, 99, 113, 128
mistreatment of on missions
61, 100, 101, 104, 116, 121, 154, 165, 169
removal from families
2, 12, 62, 71, 96, 100, 105, 116, 120, 121, 128, 135, 139, 140, 147, 152, 175
Aboriginal Christians
15, 115, 116, 125n, 130, 136, 143, 145, 146, 175
Church
15, 176n
clergy
176
conversion
8, 14, 23, 28, 70, 82, 83, 91, 98, 109, 110, 117, 123, 128, 140, 142, 156, 166
women
127, 139, 170
Aboriginal-controlled organisations
,
see Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (AAPA), Aborigines Progressive Association, Australian Aborigines League (AAL)
Aboriginal culture
4, 36, 45, 46, 56, 74, 77, 87, 94, 98, 101, 146, 151, 153, 156, 157, 159, 160, 163, 165, 166, 168, 170, 171, 172, 174, 175, 178
Aboriginal dispossession
2, 5, 8, 24, 76, 121, 130, 132, 171
Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship
175, 176n
Aboriginal families
12, 25, 29n, 87, 100, 141, 163, 170, 179
Christian
70, 82, 89, 91
Aboriginal health
7, 44, 77, 79, 160, 166
syphilis
79, 88
tuberculosis
79, 133, 160, 65
Aboriginal labour
21, 40, 43, 79, 81, 86, 100, 166
Aboriginal land grants
24
Aboriginal land rights
174, 176
Aboriginal law
5, 81, 154, 169
Aboriginal missions
,
see names of individual missions
Aboriginal reserves and mission stations in the Colony of Victoria (map)
51
Aboriginal segregation
29, 128, 131, 175
Aboriginal women
as civilising force
28–9, 42, 43, 104
as mothers
24–5
employment
42, 113, 170
missionary work
11
relations with white missionary women
14, 17, 34, 48, 53–4, 59–60, 74, 93, 97, 179
sexuality
1, 63–4, 70–1, 82, 159, 178
training
55, 71
violence against
79, 82
Aborigines Act (NT) (1910)
9, 105
Aborigines Act (SA) (1911)
9
Aborigines Act (WA) (1905)
9, 17, 105
Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM)
106, 112–3, 115–22, 124, 125–7, 140–8, 176, 178
Aborigines Progressive Association (APA)
129, 130, 141–2, 144–5
Aborigines Protection Act (1909) (NSW)
9, 17
Aborigines Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act (1897)
86
Aborigines Protection Society (APS)
30, 35n, 40
Aborigines’ Friends Association (AFS)
126
Act to Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria’ (1886) (‘Half Caste Act’)
52, 57, 57n, 64
Act to Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria (1869)
50–1
Adler, Mrs F.
145
Adnyamathanha country
124
Albany Native Institution see Camfield Institution
Albany, Western Australia
40, 42
Allen, Margaret
178
An Elementary Grammar of the Nggerikudi Language (1903)
157
Anderson, Hugh and Ellen
143, 144–5
Angas, George Fife
35
Anglican
,
see Church of England
Annesfield
,
see Camfield Institution
anthropology
15, 123, 152, 162, 164, 166, 168
Appin massacre
24
Ardler, Mrs F.
180
Argus, The
70
Arthur, Sir George
32, 33
assimilation
36, 37, 131, 141, 175, 176
Atkinson, Edwin, and Ellen
127, 144, 145
Attwood, Bain
11, 139, 165
Aurukun Council
158, 167, 170, 172
Aurukun Diary
151, 152
Aurukun Mission
11, 92, 94, 99, 100, 102, 104, 151, 152–4, 158–74
Australian Aborigines League (AAL)
129, 130, 142, 145
Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (AAPA)
129, 141–2, 144–5
Australian Imperial Forces
6, 55, 68, 102, 132n
Australian state borders and capital cities (1911) (map)
6
Azariah, Samuel
155
Badjalang Mission
122
Baker, Miss H.
113–15
Baker, Reverend Thomas
114
Bakewell, Christabel, and Lionel
152
Ballinderry, Ireland
79
Baltzer, Michael
101
Barnes, Matilda, and Minnie
79
Batavia River Mission
75, 84.
Mapoon mission
bauxite mining
162, 172
Bee, Peter
154
Beilby, Mr
57
Belshaw, Mary
122
Bennett, Mary Montgomery
140–2
Bishop, Cath
121
black nationalism
146
Blacktown
21, 26, 27
Bleakley, John
163–4
Bloomfield River Reserve
77
Board for Protection of the Aborigines (Victoria) (BPA)
50, 52–5, 57, 59, 65–70, 72–3, 76, 131–7, 140
boarding schools
20, 94, 159
Bon, Ann
131, 133, 135, 136–7
Bond, Clara
98
Boonwurrung people/country
48
Boorooberongal people/country
26
Botany Bay
112
Bowles, Devin
98
Brangy, Eda
59, 62
Breeze, Anne
39
Brett Vickers, Christine
120, 147
British ‘benevolence’
20, 24, 25, 44
British colonial borders and major settlements (1836) (map)
6
British Empire
9, 23, 30, 44
Brock, Peggy
11, 124
Brookton
126
Broome, Richard
51
Brown, Edwin
91, 94, 95–6, 99
Brown, Reverend John
162
Brown, Thekla
91, 94, 95–6, 99
Bulmer, Caroline
66, 67–8, 73–4, 179
Bulmer, Ethel, and John
66–8, 136
Cadzow, Alison
143
Cameron, Alison
161
Cameron, Donald
60
Camfield Institution
19, 39, 40, 41–4, 134
Camfield, Anne
40–6, 134, 179
and Henry
40–6
Cape Bedford
77
Cape Colony
23
Cape York Peninsula
17, 75–9, 90, 91, 102, 149, 151, 153, 157
‘carceral archipelago’
105, 128
Carey, Hilary
11
Cataract River
24
Catholic Church missions
9, 11, 18, 76, 144, 149
Central Board Appointed to Watch over the Interests of the Aborigines
50
children’s homes
116, 176, 177, 178
China Inland Mission (CIM)
107–9, 115, 119
Choo, Christine
11
Christian Endeavour movement (CE)
108–9, 110, 113
Church Missionary Society (CMS)
15, 27, 29, 150, 152, 171
Church of England
50, 66, 87, 137, 153
Anglican
35, 38, 40, 43, 76, 83, 89, 105, 144, 149, 152, 153
church
35
clergy
76
missions
50, 76, 87, 105, 137, 144, 149
missionaries
66, 89
women’s societies
83
churches
,
see individual denominations
‘civilise’
2, 16, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
and ‘Christianise’
34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 79, 177
class (social)
42, 119
middle-class
71
working-class
42, 43, 178
Colebrook Children’s Home
121
colonial incursion
5, 21, 180
Colonial Office
30, 44
Colonial Secretary
31, 38
Commission for World Mission
162
Committee on the Native Question
39
Commonwealth Franchise Act (1902)
111–12
Commonwealth of Australia
3, 7, 135, 149, 172
conditional pardon men
41, 43
Conolly, Louise
63
convicts
3–5, 7
female
42
land grants
4
Cooper, William
72, 145–6
Coranderrk Reserve
50, 58, 60, 62, 67, 131–9
Cumeroogunga (Cummeragunja)
72, 110, 127, 143, 144, 145, 157
Darby, Mary
62, 135
Darwin, Northern Territory
121, 148
Day of Protest and Mourning
129, 130, 145, 180
Departments of Education
59, 60, 61, 123
Derham, Frances
161
Dharug people/country
19, 21, 24
Ditchburn, William
65, 136
Dixon, Retta
,
see Long, Retta (née Dixon)
Djenidi, Valerie
123, 145
Djurin Mission
122, 124
domesticity
1, 34, 52, 55, 64, 71, 83, 91, 121, 122, 179
Aborigines Advancement League (AAL)
129, 130, 142, 145
Douglas, John
79
Dredge, James
31–3
Dresden Mission Society (DMS)
35–7, 39, 44, 45
Duff, The
21–2
Duguid, Charles
156
Dussart, Fae
9, 31, 33
Ebenezer Mission
50
education
schools
as empowerment
67, 115, 171
as missionary work
104, 107–8, 115, 147, 160–1, 167, 169–70, 171, 177, 179, 180
for Aboriginal children
20, 26, 29, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 45, 50, 72, 159
Elkin, Peter
123
Ernabella Mission
156
European invasion
2, 4, 12, 19, 44, 76, 135, 176
Evan, Gwen
151
Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Society
19, 35
Evangelical Missionary Alliance
108
Evangelical Revival
21, 28
Evangelicalism
8, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 98, 106, 107–9, 120–1, 123, 126, 142, 147, 175
itinerant
115, 125, 134, 143
transnational
109
Evangelisch-lutherische Mission zu Dresden (Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society in Dresden)
,
see Dresden Mission Society
faith missions
American
108, 122
Australian
17, 105–28
British
107-108
‘faith principle’
107, 109, 112, 123–4
federal government
7, 173
constitution
7
Ferguson, Bill
129–30
Ferguson, Duncan
145
Ferguson, Bruce
136–7
Finlayson, Christina
122, 124–5, 178
Fitzgerald, Governor
40
Foreign Missions Committee
77, 78, 86, 87, 91, 95
Foster, Nora
134
Foster, Tom
129–30, 146
Framlingham Reserve
50
Fremantle, Western Australia
39
Garvey, Marcus
144
gender
and power structures
3, 10, 14, 54, 62, 70, 95
and missionary enterprise
12, 17, 18, 19, 23, 29, 39, 82, 106, 127, 159, 165, 171
and race
120
challenges to assumptions about
141, 147, 170
debates
28, 34, 88,
division of roles
57, 121, 122, 126
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia
84
George, Awumpun Jean
169
Georges River, New South Wales
143
Georgina, Johnny
99
Gillan, Mary
170
Gipps, Governor George
32
Gippsland Hospital
65
Gippsland, Victoria
48, 65, 70, 137
Girai Wurrung people/country
50
Glenelg, Lord
31
Godden, Judith
85
Good News Hall
132–3, 134
Goodall, Heather
10, 143
Green, John, and Mary
59
Gregory Downs
88
Gribble, Ernest
89
Gribble, Ethel
95–6, 104
Groote Eylandt Mission
150, 171
Grove, Joan
40
Guinness, Henry Grattan
109–11
Gunai/Kurnai people/country
50, 52, 54, 56, 65, 68, 73
Gunditjmara people/country
50
Guy, Elizabeth
151
Haebich, Anna
12, 105, 121, 128
Hagenauer, Ellie
47, 53, 55, 57–65, 70, 73–4, 82
Hagenauer, Friedrich
47, 52–73, 76, 77, 78, 132, 180
Hagenauer, Louise (née Knobloch)
47, 73, 132, 155, 179
Haggis, Jane
14, 178
Hale, Mathew
38, 43–4
Hamilton, Reverend Robert
1–2, 9–10, 47, 52, 56, 62
Hamilton, Victoria
69
Harris, John
10–11, 105
Haskins, Victoria
68, 125
Hatton, Elizabeth McKenzie
126, 141–2, 144
Heathershaw, James
137
Heinrich, H.A.
126
Herald (Melbourne)
165
Hermannsburg Mission
126, 149
Hetherington, Isabella
126, 133–40, 148
Hey, Minnie (née Barnes)
79, 82, 101, 165, 179
Hey, Nicholas
75, 79, 82, 85, 87–92, 95, 101–3, 157
Hopevale Mission
,
see Cape Bedford
Hoskins, Lena
127
House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines
30–1, 34
Howard, Richard
100–1
Howe, Captain
66–7
Howe, Renate
153
humanitarianism, white
49, 77, 131, 141
Hyde, Ruby
121
India
103, 152, 153, 155, 177
Industrial Schools and Reformatories
88, 160
infant mortality
161
initiation ceremonies
38, 159, 168
Inquirer
43
Inquirer and Commercial News
41
integration
29.
assimilation
intimacies
73–4, 150, 155, 180
between Aboriginal people and white women
3, 44, 73, 74, 180
between governments and missionaries
3, 44, 150
Jacobs, Margaret
12, 71, 178
James, Thomas Shadrach
144, 157
Jensz, Felicity
57, 59
Johnson, Gertie
124
Johnson, Richard
8
Jolly, Margaret
178
Jones, Mary
126
Kalu, Ogbu Uke
2, 176
Kanaka Mission
84, 109
Karuah, New South Wales
127, 143–4
Kaurna people/country
19, 35–9
Kawenka, Geraldine Pambegan
152, 167–8
Kemp, Dick
90
Kidd, Rosslyn
167
Klose, Samuel
35, 37–8
Koori people
124
Korea
84, 103
Kramer, F.A.
126
Kulin people/nation
5, 19, 31–4
La Perouse, Sydney
109–10, 112–15, 129, 130, 134
La Trobe, Benjamin
75, 85, 94
La Trobe, Governor Charles
33, 48
Lake Condah mission
50
Lake Moodemere
135
Lake Tyers mission
50, 55, 65–7, 69–70, 74, 132, 136, 137, 139
Lancaster, Sarah Jane
132, 133
Langley, Melvina
122, 124
languages
Aboriginal
4, 31, 36, 37, 156, 157–8, 160, 168
European
111
Le Souef, Albert
55
Le Souef, Ellie (née Hagenauer)
,
see Hagenauer, Ellie
Le Souef, Ernest
55, 64
Lee, Georgina
88
Lerner, Gerda
16
Lester, Alan
9, 31, 33
Location Native School
34, 38–9
Locations of Aborigines Inland Mission workers (c.1930) (map)
117
Lock, Annie
125–6
Logan, Willie
132, 134
London Missionary Society (LMS)
21, 22–3, 35, 83, 90
London, England
8, 22, 30, 36, 77
Long, Arnold
117, 147–8
Long, Leonard
112
Long, Retta (née Dixon)
110, 112–3, 115–121, 122, 141, 143, 147–8, 178
Longworth, Alison
121, 126
Love, Reverend James Robert Beattie (Bob)
153, 156
Lowe, Beulah
171
Lutheran
Church
36, 76, 105
missions
8, 18, 126, 149
Lutkehaus, Nancy
44, 170, 171, 177
Lydon, Jane
25
MacKenzie, Bill
151, 152, 153, 154, 156, 157–60, 162, 163–5, 167–70, 171–4
‘Bill MacKenzie Time’
152, 167–8, 170
MacKenzie, Geraldine (née Storrs)
151–4, 156–62, 165–74
Macquarie, Governor Lachlan
21, 23–4, 26, 27
Macquarie, Mrs
19, 20
Male Orphan School, Liverpool, New South Wales
27
Maloga mission
71–2, 76, 109
Mammus, Billy
166
Manktelow, Emily
23, 83, 104, 177
Manunka mission
72
Mapoon mission
75, 79, 82, 84, 86–92, 95–104, 105, 150, 153, 156, 157, 160–2, 169, 180
Mari Yamba mission
77
Markus, Andrew
139
Marr, Bert
145
marriage
Aboriginal
55, 63, 91–2, 127, 132
and missionaries
23, 33, 35–6, 39, 51–2, 54, 92, 96, 104, 106, 120, 121–2, 150
and protectors
31
as civilising force
26, 27, 28, 29, 82, 89, 90, 98
interracial
23, 26, 41, 42–3, 125, 126
Kaurna traditions
37–9
‘runaway matches’
81–2
Wik traditions
159–60, 163, 168
Marsden, Samuel
8, 22
masculinity
13, 33, 70, 171
massacres
5, 125, 134
Massam, Katharine
11
maternalism
1, 44, 112–3
and mission women
2, 12, 45, 58, 68, 70–3, 121, 173, 178–80
and single missionary women
96–104
duty
59, 64, 83
institutions
46, 128, 170–2, 174, 177
Matthews, Daniel
71, 72, 76, 78, 109, 145
Matthews, Janet
71–3, 78, 116, 145, 179
Maynard, Fred
144
Maynard, John
125, 141–2
McConnel, Ursula
162–3, 165–7
McCreedie, Walter
63
McLisky, Clare
52, 58, 71–2
McRae, Alex
134–8
McRae, Henry
134–5, 137, 138
McRae, Lizzie (née Hamilton)
134–5, 137, 138–9
McRae, Mary (née Darby)
131, 134–38, 139
McRae, Tommy
135
McRidge, May
122
Melbourne, Victoria
29, 33, 48, 54, 55, 60, 62, 70, 82, 84, 129, 132, 133, 137, 151, 152, 164, 172
Merri Creek Mission School
29
Meston, Archibald
86
Methodist Church
missionaries
26, 114, 136, 172
missions
29, 76, 105, 149, 150, 171
protectors
31
women’s auxiliary
83
Meyer, Heinrich
35
Milingimbi Mission
171
Miller, James
24
Millett, Jane
42–3
Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
172
missionary
faith missions
family model of
33–4, 52, 56, 57, 73, 96, 104, 177
funding
8, 23, 40, 43, 50, 73, 78, 85, 123, 124, 137, 177
fundraising
40, 43, 44, 71, 83, 85
strategy
92, 106
Sisters
150, 176
theology
107–8, 109, 117, 122, 151, 123, 128, 141, 148
wives
1, 9, 10, 11, 17, 22, 28, 39, 45–6, 47, 58, 59, 64, 67, 70, 71, 73, 75, 83, 92, 150, 151, 158, 160, 176, 177
women’s memoirs
10, 14, 151–2, 171
Missionary Heroines (1912)
103
missions
,
see individual missions
Mitchell, Frances and Reverend William
39–40
Moorhouse, Matthew
36–8
Moravian
missions
8, 18, 42, 50, 52, 68, 75, 76–7, 81–3, 89, 91, 92, 95, 98, 154, 157
movement
47, 54, 56, 75, 98, 168
Moreton Bay Mission
29
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen
71, 139, 178
Mornington Island mission
102
Moss, Miss
60–1
Mossman mission
139
mothers
maternalism
Aboriginal
25, 46, 98, 102, 104, 160
and daughters
52–74
the land as
173
white women as mothers to Aboriginal people
2, 96–8, 120, 162, 174, 178–9
Mt Margaret Mission
123, 126, 140–1
Mullett, David
55, 132, 138
Mullett, Maud (née Stephen)
53, 55, 131–4, 139
Murray River, New South Wales
133, 135
native police
26, 39
Native Welfare Conference (1951)
175
Native Workers’ Training College, The
178
Nepabunna Mission
124
Neville, A.O.
141
New Guinea
153, 161
New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
153
New South Wales
4, 5, 7, 9, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 29, 30, 32, 42, 71, 72, 84, 85, 110, 120, 1234, 124, 127, 129, 125, 133, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 147
New South Wales Aborigines Advocate, The
111
New South Wales Aborigines Mission (NSWAM)
110–13, 115, 119
New South Wales Aborigines Protection Association (NSWAPA)
109–10
Newcombe, Miss
84
Nightingale, Florence
44
Noongar people/country
19, 39–41, 122, 124, 126
North America
5, 12, 21, 71, 103, 108, 177
North Queensland
2, 17, 56, 75–104, 105, 139, 141, 149, 151, 166, 168
Northern Protector of Aborigines
86, 88
Northern Territory
9, 18, 100, 105, 125, 126, 149, 150, 151, 175
Nowra, New South Wales
145, 180
NSW Committee on the Aboriginal Question
27
Nugent, Maria
113
nursing
56, 104, 131, 135, 149, 150, 161, 171, 177
O’Brien, Anne
12, 83, 116–7, 119
Our Aim
119, 120, 127
Pacific
Islanders
78, 154, 155, 109
Islands
22, 23
missions
8, 22, 23, 90, 111, 113
Palm Island
164, 166
Papua
153
Parker, Edward
31, 34
Parker, Mary
34
Parramatta Native Institution
19–26, 28, 29, 35, 38, 41
pastoralists
5, 61, 86
paternalism, missionary
51, 58, 64, 74, 155
Patten, Jack
145
pearl fishing industry
40, 78–9, 81, 87, 90, 100
Peel, J.D.Y.
15
Pentecostalism
131–4, 136–9
scriptural language
136
speaking in tongues
133, 134
people of mixed descent
41, 42, 57, 88, 90, 114, 120, 141, 175
Perry, Nelly
72, 179
Perth Zoo
55, 70
Phillips, Mrs Clara
114
Pitjanjatjara language/people
156
Poonindie Mission
8, 43
Port Phillip District
9.
Victoria
Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate
19, 31–4, 48
protectors
39, 45
Port Phillip Bay
31
Portsmouth, England
75
Presbyterian Church
1, 56, 84, 85, 96, 154, 161, 162
missionaries
100, 153, 156, 164
missions
47, 50, 52, 76, 77–9, 82, 89, 96, 105, 149, 151, 153–4, 165, 166, 173
missions board
57, 100, 102
women’s auxiliary
83
Presbyterian Church Committee on Foreign Missions
91
Presbyterian Mission Committee
82, 164, 165, 170
Presbyterian missions established in far North Queensland (map)
80
Presbyterian Outlook
158
Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Association (PWMA)
84, 85, 86, 102
Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union (PWMU)
82, 84–5, 91, 92, 95, 101
Preston, Harry
118
Primitive Methodist
76
protection
Aboriginal resistance to
129, 130–40
discourse of
9–10, 19, 20, 25, 34, 44, 49, 51, 57, 175
gendered
88, 121, 178
missions and
2, 45, 70, 74, 79, 96, 140–2, 150
policies and legislation
9–10, 17, 16, 30, 51, 70, 76, 91, 103, 105, 121, 123, 128, 140, 147, 148, 149, 168–9, 171–2, 176–7, 180.
individual Acts
Protectors of Aborigines
17, 19, 30–4, 36–37, 39, 45, 48, 77, 86–8, 90, 100, 101, 112, 141, 160, 163, 164, 180
Protestant
missionaries
46
missionary movement
83, 105, 127, 149, 150, 176, 177
missions
1–3, 8, 11, 18, 23, 35, 52, 154.
Anglican/Church of England, Lutheran, Methodist, Moravian, Presbyterian missions
Provisional Schools
123
Queensland
135, 140, 142, 157, 158, 162, 167, 171, 172, 175, 180
Queensland Kanaka Mission
84, 109
Queensland Resident
75
race
42, 64
and gender
14, 15, 23, 62, 120
Rademaker, Laura
97, 171
Ramahyuck mission
47, 50, 52–64, 65–8, 70, 73–4, 82, 89, 96, 131, 134, 135, 155
Regions Beyond Missionary Union
108, 109
Rehoboth
141
religious
discourse
15, 40, 100, 133, 140
language of
14
instruction
87, 115
women and
116
liberty
131, 133, 136, 139
fervour
134, 156
Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes
30, 35
Retta Dixon Home
121, 148.
Long, Retta (née Dixon)
Rhyda
97–8
Richter, Arthur, and Mary
92, 100, 102, 104, 154
Ridgeway, Corra (née Robertson), and Sid
127, 143, 144, 145
Robarts, C.A.
132–4, 136–8
Robert, Dana
122
Roberts, Frank
145
Robertson, Mr
95
Robinson, George Augustus
31
Rockhampton, Queensland
135
Roman Catholic
9, 144, 149
Roper River Mission
149, 150
Roth, Walter
86, 88, 89, 100
Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
148
Royal Commission on the Aborigines (1877/1878)
1
Ruddell, Mr & Mrs
5
Rutter, Delia
121
Sadler, Lieutenant Ralph
27–9
Sale, Victoria
64
Salt Pan Creek community
143
Schenk, Mysie, and Rod
123, 141
Schick, Laura
91, 92, 94–7, 99, 103, 104
schools
education
Industrial
88
missions and
29, 83, 93, 158, 177, 104, 124
Provisional
123
Schurmann, Clamor
35–7
segregation
29, 128, 131, 175
Select Committee (Victoria, 1849)
48, 49, 50
Select Committee on the Aborigines WA
39
Self-determination (Aboriginal)
59, 174, 175
settler government
2, 16, 19, 29, 49, 50, 71, 99, 116, 174
assimilation and
175
mission policy
16, 17, 87, 158
protection
9, 17, 37, 48, 70, 98, 128, 130, 140, 141, 148, 169, 171, 172, 176, 180
sexual relations
99
sexual abuse
23, 33, 36, 79, 93, 121, 148, 154, 159
shell work
113, 114
Shelley, Elizabeth (née Bean)
21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 46
Shelley, William
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28
Sievwright, Charles
31, 33
Simpson, A.B.
108
single men missionaries
21, 22, 23, 32, 36, 39, 45
single women
Aboriginal
42, 163
faith missions and
105–8, 111, 113, 115, 119–21, 125, 127–8, 146 147
missionaries
17, 63, 83, 85–6, 92–102, 103–4, 150, 161, 171, 176–8
Singleton home
112, 120, 127
Smith, George
120
Smith, Henry Abel
162
Smith, Jennie
120
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
39
South Australia
5, 7, 9, 16, 19, 34, 35, 39, 44, 45, 72, 105, 121
sovereignty
4, 18
spirituality
authority
118
capacity of Aboriginal people
29, 71, 78
offerings
25, 94, 98, 170
St Matthew’s Anglican Church, Melbourne
152
St Paul’s Church, Melbourne
54
Stähle, Reverend Johann
68
State Library of New South Wales
116
Stephen, Blanche
66
Stephen, Emily
53–5, 59, 63–73, 130, 131, 179
Stephen, Gilbert
68–9
Stephen, Harry
55, 63
Stephen, Maud
53, 131
Stokes, Judith
171
Storrs, Adelaide
152
Storrs, Reverend William Townsend Coopland
152
Strickland, Reverend, and Mrs
59
Sun, The
114
survival of the race
29, 87
Sutton, Peter
168–70
Swan River Colony
4.
Western Australia
Swan River mission
29, 42
Swift, Jenny, and Paddy
109
Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Intelligencer
19
Sydney Morning Herald
113
Sydney, New South Wales
4, 22, 24, 26, 39, 109, 112, 129, 139, 141, 143, 144, 145, 170
Tahiti
22
Tanatan, Rhoda
41, 42
Tasmania
4, 5, 7, 9, 30, 32, 105
Tasuku, Reverend Dr Harada
155
Taylor, Hudson
107–9
Teichelmann, Christian
35–7
Telfer, Ernest
110
temperance movement
117
Terra nullius
4
The First Australians’ First (to Sixth) Book (1951–52)
161
Thomas, Susannah
34
Thomas, William
31, 34, 45, 48–9
Thomson, Donald
164–5, 167
Thorne, Susan
28
Thursday Island
75, 79, 82, 101, 163
Timbery, Emma, and George
110, 113, 179
Timbury, Mabel
118
Tonga
22
training
55, 87, 91, 102, 107, 116, 177, 178
translation
156
transnational missionary work
23
Trimmer, Ellen
41
United Aborigines Mission (UAM)
106, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118–26, 130, 133–4, 140, 141, 143–7, 176, 180.
New South Wales Aborigines Mission
Uniting Church
172, 173
university
education
151, 156, 157
of Melbourne
153
of Sydney
153
Van Diemen’s Land
,
see Tasmania
Victoria
1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 16, 17, 19, 30, 42, 46, 47–74, 76, 77, 78, 84, 86, 105, 110, 130, 133, 134, 135, 138, 155, 157
Victorian Aboriginal Group
161
Victorian government
34, 48, 49, 50, 57
Victorian Presbyterian Assembly
52
Victorian reserves
84
Vidler, Miss
60–1
violence against Aboriginal people
on mission
101, 104, 121, 130, 154, 162–73, 177, 180
settler/state
33, 2, 5, 24, 25, 30, 31, 33, 35, 44, 76, 178, 179
Wallis, Captain James
24
Warangesda Mission
110
Ward, James
75, 79, 81, 82, 87
Ward, Matilda
6, 75, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85–6, 89, 91–4, 96–9, 103, 104, 161
Warrnambool
138–9
Wathaurong people/country
33
Watson, Jeannie
109–10
Weipa Mission
91, 92, 94, 96, 99, 100, 102
Wellington Valley Mission
29
Wellington, New South Wales
133
Wells, Ellen
41
Western Australia
39, 42, 43, 44, 53, 55, 105, 122, 125, 126, 140, 149, 156, 175
Western Front
153, 156
White Australia Policy
111
Wik country/people
88, 90, 152, 154, 158, 159, 160–3, 165, 168, 169, 170–4
Wik law
81, 154
‘Wik Mungken’
158
Williams, Peter
108
Wilson, Robert
100
Wiradjuri people/country
110
Woiwurrung/Wurundjeri people/country
48, 50
Wollaston, John Ramsden
40–1
women’s history
10, 12, 14
women’s preaching
98, 110, 125, 128, 134, 170
Wondunna, Fred
95
Wongutha people/country
126
Wonnarua people/country
144
World Missionary Conference
1910 154
World War I
17, 55, 105, 150
World War II
168
Wotjabaluk people/country
50
Yarra Village Mission
29
Yarrabah Mission
87–9, 95–6, 149
Yarramundi
26
Yarran, Kathy
126
Yoruba people
15
Young, Florence
109
Yunkaporta, Francis
172–3
Zenana Missionary Society
83