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Darkness Into Light: Missionaries, Modernists and Aboriginal Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Michael J. Christie
Michael J. Christie*
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Northern Territory University
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One of the early missionaries at Milingimbi is said to have rounded up men from a ceremony and hosed off the sacred designs they had painted on their chests. I have often been told that story, always by Balanda1 usually as a way of illustrating how terrible missionaries can be. Ali the same, other Balanda in other places were often a lot worse. Missionaries for example did not poison water holes and flour. Moreover the missionaries were not always feared or distrusted.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 1995 , pp. 28 - 34
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1995

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