We Wish We'd Done More: Ninety Years of CMS and Aboriginal Issues in North Australia by John Harris

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on foredges.

This book records the activities of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) missions and missionaries in the Northern Territory; discusses how issues such as Aboriginal culture and language, land rights, the removal of children from their familes and the nature of the gospel were dealt with; Church Missionary Association of Victoria set up mission at Roper River in response to the killings associated with the expansion of the pastoral industry in this area; attitudes of the missionaries; details of early bible translations and later work by the CMS; CMS during the era of the protection policy and them the assimilation policy; the Peace Expedition; the killing of Constable McColl and the subsequent trial of Dhakiyara; analyses the role of the CMS schools and dormitories in North Australia, in the light of the stolen generations; discusses the actions of CMS missionaries in relation to land rights, including CMS and BHP and the negotiation of mining royalites for Groote Eylandt people; discusses CMS submission to the Stolen Generations Inquiry. (Trove)

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