The United Aborigines Mission (UAM) (also known as UAM Ministries, United Aborigines' Mission (Australia), and United Aborigines' Mission of Australia[1]) was one of the largest missions in Australia, having dozens of missionaries and stations, and covering Western Australia, New South Wales and South Australia in the 1900s. It was first established in New South Wales in 1895.[2][3]

The UAM ran residential institutions for the care, education and conversion to Christianity of Aboriginal children, mostly on mission stations or in children's homes. It was mentioned in the Bringing Them Home Report (1997) as an institution that housed Indigenous children forcibly removed from their families.[4]

UAM-operated missions

In 1924 the UAM opened its first mission at Oodnadatta. In 1926 the mission moved to Quorn, where it was called the Colebrook Children's Home.

The UAM also opened missions at Swan Reach (which was later moved to Gerard and taken over by the Government in 1961–2), Nepabunna, Ooldea and Finniss Springs.[4]

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References

  1. ^ "United Aborigines Mission". trove.nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  2. ^ "United Aborigines Mission - Organisation - Find & Connect - South Australia". www.findandconnect.gov.au. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  3. ^ United Aborigines Mission (1994), Challenging the Almighty : 100 years of trusting God in the work of the United Aborigines Mission, United Aborigines Mission, ISBN 978-0-949181-10-7
  4. ^ a b "Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Report 'Bringing them Home' (Chapter Eight)". Australian Human Rights Commission. April 1997. Retrieved 28 June 2019.

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