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**Continuity can "breed out" the Aborigine blood
**Continuity can "breed out" the Aborigine blood


*Forced to attend "White Cultured" camps
*Child removal (Aboriginal Protection Act 1869)
**"forcible removal",
**"removal under threat or duress",
**"official deception",
**"uninformed voluntary release", and
**"voluntary release".


*
*Half castes institutions
**Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia,
**Doomadgee Aboriginal Mission in Queensland,
**Ebenezer Mission in Victoria and
**Wellington Valley Mission in New South Wales.


==Life of the Girls==
==Life of the Girls==


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

Revision as of 20:41, 30 November 2008

Overview

History

  • European Arrival
  • British Settlement
    • Gold Rush
  • Various Massacres
    • Myall Creek Massacre
    • Battle Mountain
    • Massacre at Coniston

Terminology

  • Half Castes
  • Stolen Generation
  • Full blood (aborigines/white)
  • White Status (advancement)
  • Bred out/Die out
  • Concept of "Helping the Native"
  • Providing "Protection"
  • 'crossbreeds', 'quadroons' and 'octoroons'

Legislation

Methods of "Breeding out"

  • 1869-1969 (time period)
  • Forced Sexual intercourse by White men on Aborigine Women
    • Continuity can "breed out" the Aborigine blood
  • Child removal (Aboriginal Protection Act 1869)
    • "forcible removal",
    • "removal under threat or duress",
    • "official deception",
    • "uninformed voluntary release", and
    • "voluntary release".
  • Half castes institutions
    • Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia,
    • Doomadgee Aboriginal Mission in Queensland,
    • Ebenezer Mission in Victoria and
    • Wellington Valley Mission in New South Wales.

Life of the Girls

Bibliography