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Author Thorpe, Bill.

Title Remembering the forgotten : a history of the Deebing Creek Aboriginal mission in Queensland 1887-1915 / by Bill Thorpe
Published Henley Beach, S. Aust. : Seaview Press, 2004

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Description xii, 143 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1: Rescue mission: Establishing Deebing Creek -- 1887-1892 1 -- 2: Religion and removals: Church and state at -- Deebing Creek 1892-1915 21 -- 3: Reconstructing relations: Murri biographies -- and experiences 66 -- 4: Remembering the forgotten: Les Davidson and -- the campaign to preserve the Deebing Creek -- Aboriginal cemetery 107
Summary The first comprehensive study of the Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission in Queensland - a mission which began at a site near Ipswich in the late 1880s and which closed during World War I. The book identifies some 300 Aboriginal people who were at Deebing Creek during its existence
Analysis Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia,Queensland)
Local history
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 120-127
Subject Deebing Creek Mission -- History
Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission (Qld.) -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Ipswich region -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Queensland -- Ipswich region -- History
Yuggera (Australian people)
Missionary settlements -- Australia -- Queensland -- Deebing Creek
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Deebing Creek region -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Queensland -- Deebing Creek region -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Deebing Creek Region (Qld.) -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Deebing Creek Region (Qld.) -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Deebing Creek Region -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Queensland -- Deebing Creek Region -- History
SUBJECT Queensland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116481
Deebing Heights (Qld.) -- History
Deebing Creek (Qld.) -- History
Genre/Form History.
LC no. 2005363423
ISBN 1740083067