Mission Girls: Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1900-1950

ABORIGINAL WEST AUSTRALIANA –

Examines the situation of Aboriginal women who lived on the Catholic missions of Beagle Bay and Kalumburu, explores the effects of European colonization on these women, and the politics of race, gender and class in the colonizing process.

• 1. The Kimberley and its People
• 2. Catholic Missions in the Kimberley
• 3. Beyond Control: Aboriginal Women on the Pearling Coast
• 4. Homes for Wayward Women
• 5. Let the Children Come to Me
• 6. Bishop’s Dream: Daughters of Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles
• 7. Mission Marriage
• 8. World War II
• App. A. Chronology of Aboriginal Affairs Administration
• App. B. Aborigines Department, its Successors and Responsible Ministers
• App. C. Full Text of the Submission to the Moseley Royal Commission by the Half-castes of Broome, January 1935
• App. D. Children Admitted to Beagle Bay Mission, 1895-1909
• App. E. Children at Beagle Bay Mission, 1910-1936
• App. F. Daughters of Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles – Rules, Outline of their Training, and Form of the Ceremony of Dedication.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (p. 305-345) and index.

First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

• Religions – Christianity – Missions
• Gender relations – Intermarriage
• Race relations – Racial discrimination – Legislative
• Religions – Christianity – Catholic Church
• Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
• Drysdale River (WA East Kimberley SD52-09)
• Beagle Bay (WA West Kimberley SE51-02)

Subject:

• Catholic Church — Missions — Western Australia — Kimberley
• Catholic Church — Western Australia — Kimberley — History
• Aboriginal Australians — Missions — Western Australia — Kimberley Region
• Women, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia — Kimberley
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Social conditions
• Kimberley (W.A.) — Church history
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