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The Umeewarra Mission Children's Home was built at Umeewarra Mission and comprised both a house and a school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. These children were placed at the mission for a variety of reasons, either because they had been forcibly removed from their families and communities or for medical treatment. Some children attended the school while their families lived nearby in Umeewarra Mission .
0Established in 1937 by the Open Brethren Assemblies of South Australia, renamed Davenport Reserve in 1964 after coming under government management.
Umeewarra Mission Children's HomeKaren George and Gary George, Umeewarra Mission Home, Davenport Reserve (1964 - 1995) (23 February 2015) Find & Connect https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/sa/biogs/SE00351b.htm
SABarani, Aboriginal People and Place, Barani Sydney's Aboriginal History
http://www.sydneybarani.com.au/sites/aboriginal-people-and-place/
Y'know, I can remember we used to just talk lingo. [In the Home] they used to tell us not to talk that language, that it's devil's language. And they'd wash our mouths with soap. We sorta had to sit down with Bible language all the time. So it sorta wiped out all our language that we knew (p. 133).
We wasn't told anything about the facts of life. When we left the Home they didn't tell us anything about sex and that. All us girls, when we all come out the Home, we were all just, bang, pregnant straight away (p. 192).
Confidential evidence 170, South Australia: woman taken from her parents with her 3 sisters when the family, who worked and resided on a pastoral station, came into town to collect stores; placed at Umewarra Mission.
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 170
Umeewarra Mission, 1968
Umeewarra Mission, 1968