Sort of a Place Like Home: Remembering the Moore River Native Settlement by Susan Maushart

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library with no external stickers. Protective plastic covering. Partial date due slip on inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Minor marks on foredges.

The Moore River Native Settlement was for 30 years "home" to thousands of Indigenous Australians. Alternatively, sanctuary, work camp, orphanage, prison and rural idyll, the settlement was part of a social experiment initiated by the Chief Protector of Aborigines A O Neville, the aim of which was the eradication of a race and culture.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please note that this book may contain images of people who have passed away.