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1909 - North West - view
closing of reserves and the taking away of children from Aboriginal parents in order to bring them up in institutions such as Cootamundra Girls’ Home and Kinchela Boys’ Home
1909 - North West - view
The APB administers government policy, dictates where Aboriginal people can live and work, their freedom of movement, their personal finances and their child rearing practices
1909 - North West - view
The Singleton Home takes in boys as well as girls. These children are removed from their communities on the basis of racial criteria (lighter skinned children are most usually taken)
1909 - North West - view
Frederick (Yeri) Barber is an accomplished singer and sings solo at the annual Australian Aborigines Conference
1909 - North West - view
Selling of Sackville Reserve
1909 - North West - view
the Sackville Leaf Band or La Perouse leaf band amaze the congregation
1910 - North West - view
first Aboriginal helper to trial as a missionary
1911 - North West - view
AIM establishes a Prayer Band in Karuah. They crown an Aboriginal woman as the Queen of Karuah
1911 - North West - view
William Jonas of Karuah River rides his mount at King George V’s coronation in London
1911 - North West - view
Annie and George are painted there by artist Herbert Beecroft
1913 - 1927 - North West - view
Aboriginal people are forcibly removed by police from farms they had successfully settled, cultivated, maintained and independently farmed
1914 - North West - view
500 Aboriginal people enlist in the armed forces
1914 - South West - view
When a battle was to take place fighting men would be gathered from the main tribe and all the sub tribes, and, all would combine together
1915 - North West - view
AIM employs Aboriginal assistants to AIM missionaries
1915 - North West - view
Annie Markim (nee Barber) makes a carrying basket from bulrushes found near Sackville Reserve
1915 - North West - view
Ephraim Everingham dies and is buried at the Aboriginal burial ground, Sackville