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The author's detailed and sympathetic work documents a unique experience in Australian history - the first large-scale interaction between Christain Europeans and hunter-gatherer Australian Aborigines. The book, recounts how Lutheran missionaries' attempted to dominate and proselytize the Diyari Aborigines led sadly to degradation and suffering for both groups. The book preserves some valuable linguistic and ethnographic work, drawing from interviews with families of those who survived the mission. (Source: Koorong.com)
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Missionaries Take Control Under the Guise of Religion
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 5 October no. 86 1994; (p. 14)
— Review of White Man's Dreaming: Killilpininna Mission 1866 - 1915 1994 single work non-fiction White Man's Dreaming is based on prolific correspondence between the Lutheran missionaries and their supporters in Adelaide and Germany. The author also uses interviews with families of missionaries and Aborigines who survived the mission, which operated from 1886 to 1915. The book is a contact history that demonstrates the strength of the human spirit who opposing cultures meet for the first time. (Source: Koori Mail Ed. 86 1994)
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Missionaries Take Control Under the Guise of Religion
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 5 October no. 86 1994; (p. 14)
— Review of White Man's Dreaming: Killilpininna Mission 1866 - 1915 1994 single work non-fiction White Man's Dreaming is based on prolific correspondence between the Lutheran missionaries and their supporters in Adelaide and Germany. The author also uses interviews with families of missionaries and Aborigines who survived the mission, which operated from 1886 to 1915. The book is a contact history that demonstrates the strength of the human spirit who opposing cultures meet for the first time. (Source: Koori Mail Ed. 86 1994)
Last amended 22 May 2017 13:20:36
Subjects:
- South Australia,
- ca. 1866-1915
- Aboriginal Diyari AIATSIS ref. (L17) (SA SH54-01) language
Settings:
- Killalpaninna Mission (1867-1915), Killalpaninna, Far North South Australia, South Australia,
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