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The Government of Western Australian opened the Moore River Native Settlement in 1918. The Aborigines Act 1905 allowed government agencies to forcibly remove Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families all over Western Australia and then send them to Moore River. There were many issues with health and sanitation and more than two hundred children aged 1 to 5 died at Moore River. Children often attempted to escape Moore River in order to return to their families .

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Established in 1918 by the Western Australian State Government, closed in 1951.

Moore River Native Settlement

Debra Rosser, Moore River Native Settlement (1918 - 1951) (5 May 2014) Find & Connect https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/wa/biogs/WE00948b.htm

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Mogumber

South West Aboriginal Land & Sea Council 
https://www.noongarculture.org.au/whadjuk/

South West Aboriginal Land & Sea Council, About the Whadjuk Region, South West Aboriginal Land & Sea Council
https://www.noongarculture.org.au/whadjuk/

Yued dialectical group of the Noongar nation (also known as the Yuat dialectical group) Yued dialect of the Noongar language Noongar in the south-west. Anangu in Central Australia. WA
Confidential evidence 333 Personal WA Mogumber Moore River Native Settlement

We were locked up at night. All the boys, young girls. Married girls and women what had no husbands and babies, they had one room. Another dormitory was for young girls had no babies. But we was opposite side of that, see? The boys' dormitory. I'm not going to complain about it because, you know, I survived. A lot of kids died. Depression time it was pretty hard (p. 92).

[Chief Protector] Neville got our money. We were working on a station. Some of them worked six or seven years. And the money come down here to that office here in Wellington St [Perth]. When I finished up, coming back from the Territory, I told who I was and I said, 'There's money supposed to be here'. I got 30 shillings - one pound ten - a red, white and blue blanket, and a pass to the Settlement [Moore River]. I said, 'Hey, I don't want your pass to the Settlement. I can go to the Settlement. That's my home' (p. 150).

Confidential evidence 333, Western Australia: man removed to Sister Kate's Orphanage in 1933 and probably working during the 1940s.

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Children from Their Families (1997)

Unknown Confidential evidence 333
A black and white photograph of a group of people at Moore River Native Settlement. They are standing underneath a shelter made out of corrugated iron.

Moore River Native Settlement, ca. 1930

A black and white photograph of a group of people at Moore River Native Settlement. The children are all standing in front of a building which is made out of corrugated iron sheeting. The children are assembled together, with staff standing in the back row, and they are all are preparing for their photograph to be taken.

Moore River Native Settlement, ca. 1930

A black and white photograph of a medical ward at Moore River Native Settlement. There are a group of people lying in bed on the porch. There are staff members standing near them.

Moore River Native Settlement, 1920: The mission hospital