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The Register of Aboriginal Reserves 1875-1904 held by NSW State Archives includes a map of the locality and a description of the area and whether it is good for hunting and fishing. [ 5 ] The reserves were operated under the direction of various government authorities including the Aborigines Protection Board (1883–1940), the Aborigines ...
Aboriginal missions in New South Wales, together with reserves and stations, ... More than ten missions were established in NSW between 1824 and 1923. [3] [4] ...
An Aboriginal reserve, also called simply reserve, was a government-sanctioned settlement for Aboriginal Australians, created under various state and federal legislation. Along with missions and other institutions, they were used from the 19th century to the 1960s to keep Aboriginal people separate from the white Australian population.
Koonadan Historic Site, a Wiradjuri ceremonial and burial site in the Riverina region of southern NSW. [16] Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, north of Sydney. Contains many sites, notably those along the Basin Track, the Echidna Track, the Cowan Track and the Red Hand Track. [17] Mootwingee Aboriginal Site, western New South Wales.
Records list it as a group of four Aboriginal reserves spanning the years 1883 to 1964, but its status changed over this period, with differing levels of control by the government. It is known for being the site of a protest known as the Cummeragunja walk-off in 1939, with residents leaving the reserve to cross the river in protest at poor ...
The reserve was operated under the Aborigines Protection Board (1889–1940) and the Aborigines Welfare Board from 1940-1946. [12] [6] [13] [14] The two main families on the reserve were the Everinghams and Barbers. [4] Andrew Barber, the son of John Barber, a Dharug man, and his wife Ballandella, a Wiradjari woman, was the last resident at the ...
Over the years, the Brewarrina Mission was used to house other Aboriginal people from Tibooburra, Angledool, Goodooga and Culgoa to form the reserve which operated between 1886 - 1966 and was one of the longest running reserve stations in NSW. During the reserve period many Aboriginal people died and were buried in the reserve cemetery.
Nurragingy Nature Reserve's namesake commemorates one of two early colonial Indigenous Australians of the Dhaarak tribe who were given a land grant by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the other "Colebee", was given to the convention centre within the reserve. This grant is associated with two significant Aboriginal figures from the early colonial ...