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Note: Barbara Cummings acted as the coordinator/writer in the community project to collect oral histories about Jahlin Compound and the Retta Dixon Children's Home.
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Take This Child... : From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children's Home
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This is a collection of oral histories about the displacement of Aboriginal adults and children from their traditional lands to the Kahlin Compound and the Retta Dixon Children's Home in the Northern Territiory. The children's home was run by the United Inland Mission and was established within the Government compound in 1947 and both areas are referred to today as the Bagot Reserve. The author Barbara Cummings highlights the forced living of Aboriginal people at the compound to the removal of their children to the Retta Dixon home. The history spans over six decades from the 1911 Aborigines Act to 1980 and examines the beginning of Aboriginal Affairs in Darwin, as well as the political and social impacts of institutionalisation that include the adverse affects of alcoholism, violence and homelessness.

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Notes

  • Epigraph: Beyond the depths of that awful cry which sprang from the elder girl's lips, I heard the tender, strong command of the Son of God, 'Take these children, and train them for Me.' 'I will, Lord,' was my trembling reply. Retta Long (nee Dixon), Providential Channels, 2nd edition, 1960, 30.
  • Dedication: To you from us.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Foreword, Pat Turner , single work oral history (p. ix-x)
Preface, Barbara Cummings , single work oral history (p. xi-xiii)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: 1990 .
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      Extent: xvi, 139pp.
      Description: illus., ports.
      Note/s:
      • Includes Bibliography.
      ISBN: 0855752084 (pbk), 9780855752088

Works about this Work

Take This Child Louise Harding , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 15 no. 2 1991; (p. 177-179)

— Review of Take This Child... : From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children's Home 1990 single work oral history
Take This Child Louise Harding , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 15 no. 2 1991; (p. 177-179)

— Review of Take This Child... : From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children's Home 1990 single work oral history
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