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Author

Longworth, Alison

Title

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Secondary Title

An historical analysis of five women missionaries and their encounters with the Nyungar people of south-west Australia

Type of Work

PhD thesis

Imprint

Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, 2005

Url

http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/163/2/02Whole.pdf

Description

This thesis explores the complexity of the relationship between female missionaries, the Aboriginal people whom they sought to convert, the evangelical and revivalist traditions that underwrote their beliefs and practices, and their invisibility in church hierarchies. The study provides thoughtful insight into the operations and experiences of the Australian Aborigines Mission (AAM) and its successor, the United Aborigines Mission in Western Australia. A history of the antecedents of the AAM in New South Wales is also included.

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Archival Items

• Interview with Isobel Bropho, State Library of Western Australia (1989)

  p.180

Glossary Terms

• Stolen Generations

  pp.298-299

Organisations

• Aborigines' Inland Mission (1907 - 1909)

  pp.89, 115, 122

• Alvan House (1950 - 1961)

  pp.298-299

• Australian Aborigines' Mission (1908 - 1929)

  pp.iii-iv, 5, 79, 87, 126, 128, 150, 152, 153, 156-158

• Beagle Bay Mission (1895 - 1976)

  pp.298-299

• Bennett House (1952 - 1981)

  pp.298-299

• Carrolup (1915 - 1922)

  pp.93, 152, 162, 199

• Carrolup Native Settlement (1939 - 1951)

  pp.298-299

• Charles Perkins Hostel (1962 - 2000?)

  pp.298-299

• Cosmo Newbery Mission (1953 - 1973?)

  pp.298-299

• Department of Aborigines and Fisheries, State of Western Australia (1909 - 1920)

  pp.185, 189-191

• Derby Hostel (1956 - 1994)

  pp.298-299.

• Dulhi Gunyah (1909 - 1918)

  pp.92, 120-128, 143-144, 147, 162, 180-187

• East Perth Girls' Home (1931 - 1952)

  pp.298-299

• Fitzroy Crossing Hostel (1956? - 1976)

  pp.298-299

• Fitzroy Crossing Mission (1952 - 1987)

  pp.298-299

• Forrest River Mission (1913 - 1968)

  pp.298-299

• Gnowangerup Mission (1926 - 1973)

  pp.94, 206, 236, 252, 255, 257

• Halls Creek Mission (1943 - 1960)

  pp.298-299

• Kurrawang Mission (1952 - 1984)

  pp.298-299

• La Grange Mission (1955 - 1984)

  pp.298-299

• Lombadina (1909 - 1975)

  pp.298-299

• Marribank (1952 - 1988)

  pp.298-299

• Marribank Farm Training School (1951 - 1952)

  pp.298-299

• Mogumber (1951 - 1974)

  pp.298-299

• Moola Bulla Station (1910 - 1955)

  pp.298-299

• Moore River Native Settlement (1918 - 1951)

  pp.298-299

• Mount Margaret Mission (1921 - 1975)

  pp.298-299

• Pallottine Mission, Tardun (1948 - 2004)

  pp.298-299

• Roelands Native Mission Farm (1938 - 1975)

  pp.298-299

• Salvation Army Girls' Home, Kalgoorlie (1904? - 1924?)

  pp.298-299

• Sunday Island Mission (1899 - 1934)

  pp.148-49, 153

• Udialla Station (1944 - 1949)

  pp.298-299

• United Aborigines Mission (1929 - 2019?)

  p.7

• United Aborigines Mission, Halls Creek (1957 - 1967)

  pp.298-299

• Wandering Mission (1944 - 1979)

  pp.298-299

• Warburton Mission (1933 - 1977)

  pp.298-299

• Wongutha Mission Training Farm (1954 - 1993)

  pp.298-299

Related Publications

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• 'Aboriginal orphans', The West Australian, 10 April 1909, p. 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26225334. Details

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Title

Australian Aborigines' Advocate

Type

Document

Date

31 March 1908

Source

Longworth, Alison

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