Title Take this child : from Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children's Home / Barbara Cummings

Published Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1990

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Description xvi, 139 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 1. Providence and Protectors -- 2. The 'Half-Caste Problem' -- 3. From Protection to Assimiliation -- 4. New Deal, Raw Deal -- 5. The Retta Dixon Home -- 6. Whose Welfare? -- 7. Welfare and the New Home -- 8. Vigilance For The Future Summary Impact of institutionalisation on part Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory; views of those who grew up under the dormitory system; Aboriginal people were brought from all over the Top End to Kahlin Compound, which was later transferred to Bagot Reserve; Retta Dixon Childrens Home administered by the Aborigines Inland Mission; assimilation; child welfare; children; institutional care Analysis Aboriginal Australians - Children - Northern Territory Aboriginal Australians - Children - Removal Aboriginal Australians - Northern Territory - Government relations Aboriginal Australians - Northern Territory - Mixed descent Children - Institutional care - Northern Territory Kahlin Compound - History Retta Dixon Children's Home - History Notes Bibliography; p. 137-139 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-139) Notes Copy 3 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection Subject Kahilin Compound - -- History Retta Dixon Children's Home -- History. Kahlin Compound -- History Kahlin Compound Retta Dixon Children's Home. Aboriginal Australians -- Children -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Aboriginal Australians -- Children -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Aboriginal Australians -- Mixed descent -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Cultural assimilation Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Government relations. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Mixed bloods Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Mixed dscent Children -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Children -- Northern Territory -- Institutional care Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory. LC no. 90205969 ISBN 0855752084

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