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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.
Reserves were established and Church groups ran missions providing shelter, food, religious instruction and elementary schooling for Indigenous people. [23] Some officials argued that the growing number of Aboriginal children of mixed heritage was inconsistent with the white Australia policy.
The Aborigines' and Torres Strait Islanders' Affairs Act 1965 repealed the 1939 Act, and provided for the management of reserves and welfare for Indigenous persons (both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people). Under this legislation, protection as a policy was abandoned. The new policy of assimilation began. The Act retained many ...
These were established primarily to administer former Aboriginal reserves and missions. They came about through legislation passed by the Queensland Government in 1984. [ 36 ] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander local governments hold trusteeship of the DOGITs, and land tenure under this type of tenure is held in collective title, held in ...
Aboriginal reserves, like the missions and other institutions, had the effect of isolating, confining and controlling Aboriginal people. [9] People who were relocated to these reserves lost the human rights of freedom of movement and work, control over their personal property and the custody of their children. [ 10 ]
The South Australian Register commented that "the remuneration offered in Victoria to managers [of the reserves] is insufficient to induce any man of ability, unless one who undertakes the work in a thorough spirit of self-denial and philanthropy, to accept the office. Hence for the most part these positions are filled by missionaries.
St Clair Aboriginal Mission, also known as Singleton Aboriginal Mission, it was renamed Mount Olive Reserve (1893–1923) Aborigines' Inland Mission [27] Sydney Aboriginal Mission [ 6 ] [ 16 ] Warangesda Aboriginal Mission (1879–1920) Church of England / Australian Board of Missions [ 6 ] [ 16 ]
Important archaeological research questions will relate to social organisation (including relations between people on the Reserve and culture contact generally), adaptations to life within a regulated and controlled community, the effects on families and the structures of households on the Reserve including subsistence strategies, consumption ...