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Epigraph: Nyungar stories are like the ocean waves washing up on the beaches.
Every wave changes the coastline and washes up something new. - Trevor Walley (Great great-grandson of one of the many Nyungar people who knew Spanish missionary, Rosendo Salvado.) -
Epigraph: If these events were not factual, nobody would believe them,
but believe them or not the truth is that they took place. - Rosendo Salvado, at the beginning of his memoirs.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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[Review Essay] The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures.
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2008; (p. 112-114)
— Review of The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures 2007 single work biography‘The Grand Experiment’ was the Spanish Benedictine monk Rosendo Salvado’s decision to take two Aboriginal boys, eleven-year-old Joannes Maria Dirimera and seven-year-old Francis Xavier Conaci, from Western Australia to Rome in January 1849. His intention was for them to train for the priesthood so that they could evangelise their own people. As an early attempt to ‘Aboriginalise’ an arm of the Catholic Church in Australia, it might be regarded as being a bold and far-sighted idea at the time. In reality, it was a complete disaster. Both boys contracted undiagnosed but fatal diseases, Conaci dying in Rome in October 1853 and Dirimera a few months after his return to Western Australia in August 1855. Three more boys who were subsequently despatched to Europe also died, as did all the young Aboriginal girls sent to the Mercy Convent in Perth. Another boy from New Norcia, Upumera, had died in early 1848 on the voyage to Europe with Salvado’s Catalan colleague, José Serra.' (Introduction)
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Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 63)
— Review of The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures 2007 single work biography -
The Pointed Review
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 3 May vol. 6 no. 128 2007; (p. 42)
— Review of The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures 2007 single work biography ; Some Girls Do : My Life as a Teenager 2007 anthology autobiography -
Lost Visions of Equality
2007
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 June 2007; (p. 9) -
Books Non-Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 - 3 June 2007; (p. 24)
— Review of The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures 2007 single work biography
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Exile for New Norcia's 'Stolen' Boys
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 June 2007; (p. 14)
— Review of The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures 2007 single work biography -
Non-Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 June vol. 125 no. 6573 2007; (p. 63)
— Review of The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures 2007 single work biography -
Books Non-Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 - 3 June 2007; (p. 24)
— Review of The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures 2007 single work biography -
The Pointed Review
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 3 May vol. 6 no. 128 2007; (p. 42)
— Review of The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures 2007 single work biography ; Some Girls Do : My Life as a Teenager 2007 anthology autobiography -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 63)
— Review of The Grand Experiment : Two Boys, Two Cultures 2007 single work biography -
Removal under Vows
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 April 2007; (p. 10) -
Lost Visions of Equality
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 June 2007; (p. 9)
Awards
- New Norcia, Victoria Plains area, Moora - Victoria Plains area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
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cSpain,cWestern Europe, Europe,
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cItaly,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 1800-1899